Legal Methods II: International Problem Solving

Course Information

Course Number
L6130
Curriculum Level
Foundation
Areas of Study
International and Comparative Law, Lawyering
Type
Lecture

Section 006 Information

Instructor

Section Description

Course Location: Uris Hall Room 141

Course Description. International law is a kind of law that applies beyond the jurisdiction of any state. Governments, civil society groups, private entities, and other actors routinely use it to address problems that, in their view, cannot or should not be addressed by one state alone. This intensive course will introduce students to international law through a problem-oriented approach. Each class session will focus on a different case study (the problem) to explore the legal issues that arise in their social and political contexts, as decisionmakers actually confront them. This problem-oriented approach has three main objectives for the students:

• To examine the issues at stake in some of the world’s most pressing problems and how global actors have used international law to address them.
• To understand the basic architecture of the international legal process. Each case study has been selected to highlight a different aspect of the legal process: the key participants and the terms on which they engage with the law, the arenas in which they apply it, the techniques they use to shape it, and the outcomes and distributional effects that they produce through it.
• To think strategically about the contexts in which the law operates and the opportunities for advancing one’s interests through it. This kind of lawyering requires one to assess not only the law as it is but also the various levers for shaping the law going forward.

The course will consist of a combination of classroom lectures, interactive exercises, and small-group work. Students will be expected to spend at least two hours each day reading and preparing for class, to attend and participate in all of the classroom sessions, and to work independently in their assigned small groups each afternoon. The course will be graded pass-fail, with credit awarded on the basis of the final writing projects, class participation, and attendance.

The legal methods course will be graded pass-fail, with credit awarded on the basis of the final (group) writing projects, class participation, and attendance.

School Year & Semester
January 2025
Dates
January 13 - January 17
Location
TBA TBA
Schedule
Class meets on
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Dates
January 13 - January 17
Location
TBA TBA
Schedule
Class meets on
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Points
1
Method of Evaluation
Paper
J.D Writing Credit?
No

Course Limitations

Instructor Pre-requisites
None
Instructor Co-Requisites
None
Requires Permission
No
Recommended Courses
None
Other Limitations
For JDs only

Additional Section for Legal Methods II: International Problem Solving

Section 007

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

WJWH 208

Schedule

Class meets on
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Points

1

Section 008

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

WJWH 311

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH 311

Schedule

Class meets on
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  • Wednesday

Points

1

Section 001

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

TBA TBA

Schedule

Class meets on
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Points

1

Section 005

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

WJWH L104

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH L104

Schedule

Class meets on
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Points

1

Section 002

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

WJWH L107

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH L107

Schedule

Class meets on
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Points

1

Section 009

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

WJWH 310

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH 310

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH 310

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH 310

Schedule

Class meets on
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Points

1

Section 003

School Year & Semester

January 2025

Instructor

Location

WJWH 207

Schedule

Class meets on
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Location

WJWH 207

Schedule

Class meets on
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
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Points

1
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