This is a graduate seminar course, designing for the IR students to understand international law(IL) as the cause, the consequence, and the condition of global affairs. It is expected that students could transcend their existing knowledge base, learn to link the study of IL with IR theories, and reflect the normative prospect of international politics in the contemporary era. Based upon the course objectives described above, the origins,the nature and the evolution of international law within the parameters of our changing Westphalian system over the time will be examined.

This is a graduate seminar course, designing for the IR students to understand international law(IL) as the cause, the consequence, and the condition of global affairs. It is expected that students could transcend their existing knowledge base, learn to link the study of IL with IR theories, and reflect the normal prospect of international politics in the contemporary era. Based upon the course objectives described above, the origins, the nature and the evolution of international law within the parameters of our changing Westphalian system over the time will be examined.

International law is defined as that body of rules or laws which is binding on states and other international persons in their mutual relations. The content of the class involves treaties, states’ rights and obligations, recognition, dispute resolution, law of the sea, and diplomacy.

International law is defined as that body of rules or laws which is binding on states and other international persons in their mutual relations. The content of the class involves treatments, states’ rights and obligations, recognition, dispute resolution, law of the sea, and diplomacy.

-David Armstrong, Theo Farrell and Helene Lambert, International Law and International Relations(Cambridge University Press)

-Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law,(Cambridge University Press)
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-David Armstrong, Theo Farrell and Helene Lambert, International Law and International Relations(Cambridge University Press)

-Malcolm N. Shaw, International Law,(Cambridge University Press)
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