Week
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Date
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Theme
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Contents
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References
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01
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09/15
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Course Introduction & Signing-In Confirmation
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02
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09/22
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Theme 1
Globalization and International Law
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- What is globalization?
- What is International Law?
- How does international law respond to globalization?
- Is there the Global Law?
- What are the characteristics of this development?
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- Ralf Michaels, Globalization and Law: Law Beyond the State.
- Frederic Megret, Globalization and International Law.
- Criddle & Fox-Decent, Mandatory Multilateralism, AJIL, 113(2), 272-325, 2019.
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03
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09/29
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Mid-Autumn Festival
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04
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10/06
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Theme 2
Diversified Sources of International Law
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- What are international norms?
- How is international developed?
- What is soft law? Or hard law?
- To what extent is it incorporated into international regimes?
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Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 8.
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05
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10/13
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Theme 3
Diversified Subjects of International Law
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- What are subjects of international society?
- What are the new actors in international society?
- To what extent are the private sectors included?
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Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 9, 10, 11, 12.
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06
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10/20
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Theme 4
Dispute Settlements Mechanisms
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- What are dispute settlement mechanisms?
- How do they work?
- What are the characteristics and functions of these mechanisms?
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Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 14.
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07
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10/27
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Theme 5
Compliance and Enforcement
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- Why do States comply with international norms?
- What kind of theories have been built?
- What kind of enforcement mechanisms have been established?
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Dunoff & Pollack, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations, 2013, ch 19, 20, 21, 23.
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08
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11/03
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Theme 6
Domestic Law and International Law
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- How do domestic law and international law interact?
- In the case of the major countries?
- In the case of Taiwan?
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- Aydin Atilgan. International Law, Globalization, and Transformation, in Global Constitutionalism, 2017.
- Ingrid, Wuerth, International Law, Domestic Law, and the United States, AJIL, 108(1), 2014, pp. 116-123.
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09
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11/10
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Mid-term Break/ Self-Study I
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10
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11/17
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Theme 7
Ocean governance, marine environment and international legal development
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- What are current international norms to cope with the marine pollution?
- To what extent can current international norms apply to the marine debris?
- How to further develop norms to cope with the marine debris?
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- Dawoon Jung, An International Legal Framework for Marine Plastics Pollution, 2023.
- 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.
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11
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11/24
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Theme 8
Climate change and international legal development
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- How has international norms developed to respond to the climate change?
- What are the major contents of climate change law?
- What are the major countries practices
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Carlarne, Gray & Tarasofsky, The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, OUP, 2017.
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12
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12/01
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Theme 9
Trade and international legal development
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- How has the international trade law developed?
- What are the major contents of international trade law?
- What are the new concerns and developments within the WTO?
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- WTO, Understanding the WTO, WTO | Understanding the WTO - Contents
- Hoekman & Mavroidis, WTO Reform: Back to the Past to Build for the Future, Wiley Online Library, 2021.
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13
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12/08
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Theme 10
World Health and International Legal Development
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- How has the world health law developed?
- What are the major contents of international health law?
- How has the trade law responded to the need of world health?
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- Brigit Toebes, International Health Law: An Emerging Field of Public International Law, Indian Journal of International Law, 55, 2015, 299-328.
- Allyn Taylor, Global Health Law: International Law and Public Health Policy, International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2017, pp. 268-281.
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14
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12/15
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Theme 11
Sea Level Rise, Its Impacts on International Law, and the Responses of International Society
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- What impacts have sea level rise left on the international law?
- How has the international society worked to face the challenges?
- What are the resolutions proposed to cope with sea level rise?
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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)
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15
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12/22
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Theme 12
AI and International Law
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- How has AI impacted International Law?
- How has international law responded to AI?
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Jaemin Lee, AI and International LAW, Springer, 2022. |
16
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12/29
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SELF STUDY II
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17
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01/05
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Students’ Presentations
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18
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01/12
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Students’ Presentations
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