JJUA55084U International Law & the Use of Force - NOTE: THE COURSE IS CANCELLED IN THE SPRING SEMESTER 2017
The course aims to expand the students’ abilities to identify,
analyse and competently evaluate and decide relevant public
international law problems central to the understanding of modern
world conflicts and international law’s role in solving such
conflicts. The course intends to do this by introducing students to
the comprehensive body of international law commonly known as the
Ius ad bellum which is intended to regulate and reduce the use of
armed force in international relations between states.
It surveys the UN Charter system which forms the basis for today’s
regulation and the exceptions to the ban on the use of force
allowed by the Charter. The course also explores the role customary
international law and state practice play in challenging the law of
the Charter. While the course focuses on establishing the Ius ad
bellum as law and not as politics, it also highligsts the
significant role of international politics and legal philosophy in
shaping this law. This will be shown by examining case studies into
international crises and armed conflicts from the 1991 Gulf War to
the most recent interventions in the Ukraine and in Iraq and Syria.
Content:
- Armed conflict and the UN Charter system. - The ban on the threat
or the use of force.
- Collective security measures under the UN Charter. - Self-defence
against states.
- Anticipatory and pre-emptive self-defence. - Self-defence against
terrorists and other individuals.
- Humanitarian intervention.
- Responsibility to Protect.
- UN Peace Operations.
- Case studies into contemporary international crises and armed conflicts from the 1991 Gulf War to Syria and Iraq 2015
Objectives:
- Be able to describe and explain the main components of international law related to the use of force in international relations.
- Use the regulation in the UN Charter and other international law to analyse and discuss problems concerning the use of force.
- Interpret relevant treaties, Security Council resolutions and customary law.
- Identify correct legal solutions to relevant international law questions on the basis of the cases discussed.
- Identify and discuss the challenges to and the shortcomings of contemporary international law on the use of force.
- Understand and express the relationship betweeninternational
law, international politics and legal philosophy related to the use
of force.
- Be able to critically reflect upon issues of particular,
contemporary relevance in the field of the law on the use of force,
including anticipatory self-defence, humanitarian intervention and
responsibility to protect.
- Explain and discuss relevant case studies on the use of
international law in crisis and armed conflict as covered by the
course.
- Communicate and formulate knowledge and arguments professionally
and in a way that is structured and coherent.
Yoram Dinstein, War, Aggression and Self-Defence, Cambridge
University Press, 2011.
Excerpts from Stephen C. Neff, War and the Law of Nations. A
General History, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Excerpts from Rosalyn Higgins, Problems & Process.
International Law and How We Use it, Clarendon Press, 1995.
Additional Texts and Materials. Approximately 750
pp.
- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 364,5
- Seminar
- 48
- Total
- 412,5
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information
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Oral examination, 20Oral exam without preparation, 20 minutes
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
- Exam period
Spring: June 12 - June 16, 2017 (preliminary dates)
- Re-exam
Please see "Academic calendar" on KUnet.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- JJUA55084U
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- Please see timetable for teaching time
- Continuing and further education
- Price
DKK 15.000
- Study board
- Law
Contracting department
- Law
Course responsibles
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