International and Comparative Law Workshop - JURD7559
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: School of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Equivalent: LAWS3159
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Students are strongly encouraged to enrol in Law in the Global Context before taking this course, as it builds on that knowledge. Students who have not completed that course should have some background in comparative and/or international law before enrolling in this course.
The content of the workshop will vary somewhat from year to year, based on the scholars presenting in the workshop. However, in selecting works for inclusion in the workshop, the aim will be to include papers that raise issues relating to:
- Idealist, institutionalist and realist theories of international law;
- The relationship between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law in international law;
- The connections between international, comparative and transnational law;
- Critical perspectives on international law;
- The basic rationale for or utility of constitutional comparison;
- Case-selection and causation in comparative constitutional studies;
- The importance of attention to socio-political context history in the study of comparative constitutional study; and
- The relationship between constitutional law and commitments to democracy.