SemesterFall Semester, 2023
DepartmentJunior Class A, Department of Law Junior Class B, Department of Law Junior Class C, Department of Law Senior Class A, Department of Law Senior Class B, Department of Law Senior Class C, Department of Law
Course NameInternational Legal Development under Globalization
InstructorCHEN CHEN-JU
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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Week



Date



Theme



Contents



References



01



09/15



Course Introduction & Signing-In Confirmation



02



09/22



Theme 1

Globalization and International Law



 




  1. What is globalization?

  2. What is International Law?

  3. How does international law respond to globalization?

  4. Is there the Global Law?

  5. What are the characteristics of this development?




  1. Ralf Michaels, Globalization and Law: Law Beyond the State.

  2. Frederic Megret, Globalization and International Law.

  3. Criddle & Fox-Decent, Mandatory Multilateralism, AJIL, 113(2), 272-325, 2019.



03



09/29



Mid-Autumn Festival



04



10/06



Theme 2



Diversified Sources of International Law




  1. What are international norms?

  2. How is international developed?

  3. What is soft law? Or hard law?

  4. To what extent is it incorporated into international regimes?



Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 8.



05



10/13



Theme 3



Diversified Subjects of International Law




  1. What are subjects of international society?

  2. What are the new actors in international society?

  3. To what extent are the private sectors included?



Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 9, 10, 11, 12.



06



10/20



Theme 4



Dispute Settlements Mechanisms




  1. What are dispute settlement mechanisms?

  2. How do they work?

  3. What are the characteristics and functions of these mechanisms?



Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 14.



07



10/27



Theme 5



Compliance and Enforcement




  1. Why do States comply with international norms?

  2. What kind of theories have been built?

  3. What kind of enforcement mechanisms have been established?



Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 19, 20, 21, 23.



08



11/03



Theme 6



Domestic Law and International Law




  1. How do domestic law and international law interact?

  2. In the case of the major countries?

  3. In the case of Taiwan?




  1. Aydin Atilgan. International Law, Globalization, and Transformation, in Global Constitutionalism, 2017.

  2. Ingrid, Wuerth, International Law, Domestic Law, and the United States, AJIL, 108(1), 2014, pp. 116-123.



09



11/10



 Mid-term Break/ Self-Study I



10



11/17



Theme 7



Ocean governance, marine environment and international legal development




  1. What are current international norms to cope with the marine pollution?

  2. To what extent can current international norms apply to the marine debris?

  3. How to further develop norms to cope with the marine debris?




  1. Dawoon Jung, An International Legal Framework for Marine Plastics Pollution, 2023.

  2. Nilufer Oral, ‘From the Plastics Revolution to the Marine Plastics Crisis: A Patchwork of International Law’, in Richard Barnes and Ronán Long (eds.), Frontiers in International Environmental Law: Oceans and Climate Challenges: Essays in Honour of David Freestone, 2021.



11



11/24



Theme 8



Climate change and international legal development




  1. How has international norms developed to respond to the climate change?

  2. What are the major contents of climate change law?

  3. What are the major countries practices



Carlarne, Gray & Tarasofsky, The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, OUP, 2017.



12



12/01



Theme 9



Trade and international legal development




  1. How has the international trade law developed?

  2. What are the major contents of international trade law?

  3. What are the new concerns and developments within the WTO?




  1. WTO, Understanding the WTO, WTO | Understanding the WTO - Contents

  2. Hoekman & Mavroidis, WTO Reform: Back to the Past to Build for the Future, Wiley Online Library, 2021.



13



12/08



Theme 10



World Health and International Legal Development




  1. How has the world health law developed?




  1. What are the major contents of international health law?

  2. How has the trade law responded to the need of world health?




  1. Brigit Toebes, International Health Law: An Emerging Field of Public International Law, Indian Journal of International Law, 55, 2015, 299-328.

  2. Allyn Taylor, Global Health Law: International Law and Public Health Policy, International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2017, pp. 268-281.



14



12/15



Theme 11



Sea Level Rise, Its Impacts on International Law, and the Responses of International Society 




  1. What impacts have sea level rise left on the international law?

  2. How has the international society worked to face the challenges?

  3. What are the resolutions proposed to cope with sea level rise?



International Law Commission, Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission, Sea Level Rise in Relation to International Law, Sea-level rise in relation to international law — Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission — International Law Commission (un.org)



15



12/22



Theme 12



AI and International Law




  1. How has AI impacted International law?

  2. How has international law responded to AI?




  1. Jaemin Lee, AI and International LAW, Springer, 2022.



16



12/29



SELF STUDY II



17



01/05



Students’ Presentations



18



01/12



Students’ Presentations



Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

N/A


Requirement/Grading



    1. Participation: 20 %

    2. In-class Discussion: 20 %

    3. Final Presentation: Oral 30 %; Written report 30 % (Requirements will be announced in class.)




Textbook & Reference

As listed in the Weekly Theme.


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