International Law and Use of Force - LAWS8087
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 5740 or 9230 or 9240 or 5760 or 9281 or 5281 or 9211 or 5211 or 9285 or 5285 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7487
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LLM Specialisations
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- To provide students with an understanding of the historical development of the characterisation of the use of force as unlawful and of the development of the UN system of collective security
- To develop students' knowledge and understanding of the rules relating to the prohibition of the use of force and the exceptions, both agreed and controversial, to those rules
- To examine and critically assess the appropriateness, relevance and effectiveness of the international community's attempts, both past and present, to institute collective responses to the unlawful use of force
- To develop students' discipline in the advocacy of the legal regulation of the use of force
Main Topics
- Limitations on the Unilateral Use of Force by States
- Chapter VII and the System for Collective Measures
- UN peacekeeping
- Regional security
Assessment
Class participation | 20% |
Seminar presentation | 10% |
Research essay outline | 5% |
Research essay | 65% |