Week 1 (Aug. 22nd):
Introductory
session
Samuel Huntington, The West Unique, Not Universal, Foreign
Affairs (1996)
Editorial Comments: NATO’s Kosovo Intervention, 93 Am. J. Intl L. no. 4 (1999)
(located
at www.asil.org/kosovo.htm)
Week 2 (Aug. 29th):
International
Law and Ethics: Is there a subject?
John Rawls, LP, Introduction and Part I.
Charles Beitz, Political Theory, pp. 13-27, 35-67.
Samuel Huntington, Clash of Civilizations, Foreign Affairs
(1993)
George F. Kennan, American Diplomacy 91-103 (1984)
Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State, and War 1-15, 159-86
(1959)
Week 3 (Sept. 5th)– No class
Week 4 (Sept. 12th)
The
Idea of Human Rights
U.N.
Declaration of Human Rights
(located at http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html)
International
Covenant on Civil and Political rights
(located at http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/BH498.txt)
International
Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
(located at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH497.txt)
Breard v. Greene, 523 U.S. 371 (1998)
(located at http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-8214.ZPC.html)
Michael
Ignatieff, “Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis,” New York Review of Books (May 20, 1999), http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19990520058R.
Rulings
in Bilbeisi, Hamdan, and Mubarak
cases, Israeli High Court of Justice,
Thomas
Nagel, “Public Rights and Private Space,” Phil.
& Pub. Affairs (excerpts)
Rawls,
LP, Part II
Daniel
Bell, “East Asian Challenge to Human Rights,” Human Rights Quarterly, 18: 641-67 (1996)
Week 5 (Sept. 19th):
Rules
of War
Geneva
Conventions
(located at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH238.txt
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH239.txt
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH240.txt
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH241.txt)
Nagel, “War and Massacre,” IE.
Rawls, LP, Part III, pp. 89-105.
David
Scheffer, The United States and the
International Criminal Court, 93 Am. J. Intl L. 12 (1999)
Jonathan
Tucker, From Arms Race to Abolition: The
Evolving Norm Against Biological and Chemical Warfare, in The New Terror: Facing the Threat of
Biological and Chemical Weapons 159-226 (1999)
Weeks 6 & 7 (Sept. 26th and Oct. 3rd):
Responsibility
for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
Week 6: The legacy of
Nuremberg, exercise
Hannah
Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem. Penguin, New York, (1994 rev.ed.) chpts.
1 & 2, 14-epilogue.
Michael
Marrus, Documents on Nuremberg
Week 7: After Nuremberg: trials
and reconcilations
Martha
Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Beacon Press, Boston, chps. 1-5 (1999) (excerpts).
Philip
Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed
With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Picador, New York
15-43, 109-171, 256-320 (1999) (excerpts).
Tadic
Judgment, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (May 7,
1997), http://www.un.org/icty/tadic/trialc2/jugement-e/tad-tj970507e.htm
Decision
concerning extradition of Alfonso Pinochet, House of Lords (March 24, 1999),
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd990324/pino1.htm.
Week 8 (Oct. 10th):
International
Humanitarian Intervention
Michael
Walzer, “The Rights of Political Communities,” and “Response to Critics,” IE.
David
Luban, “Just War and Human Rights,” IE.
Tom
Farer, An Inquiry into the Legitimacy of
Humanitarian Intervention, in Law and Force in the New International Order
185-201 (Damrosch & Scheffer eds. 1991);
Vladimir
Kartashkin, Human Rights and Humanitarian
Intervention, in id. at 202-11.
Theodor
Meron, Commentary on Humanitarian
Intervention, in id. at 212-214
Lori
Damrosch, Commentary on Collective
Military Intervention to Enforce Human Rights in id. at 215-23.
Week 9 (Oct. 17th):
Douglas
Lackey, “Missiles and Morals,” IE.
Gregory
Kavka, “Doubts about Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament,” IE.
Kenneth
Waltz, Toward Nuclear Peace, in The
Use of Force 684-712 (Art & Waltz eds. 1988)
Thomas C. Schelling, The Diplomacy of Violence, in id. at
3-24
Week 10 (Oct. 27th): No class (Flyback week)
Weeks 11 & 12 (Oct. 31st & Nov. 7th):
International
Distributive Justice
Week 11:
Peter Singer, “Famine,
Affluence, and Morality,” IE
Samuel
Scheffler, “The Conflict between Justice and Responsibility,” in Global Justice, ed. Ian Shapiro and Lea
Brilmayer, NYU Press, New York (1999), pp. 86-106.
Rawls, Theory of Justice, excerpts; LP,
Part III, pp. 105-20.
Week 12:
Liam
Murphy, “Comment on Scheffler,” in Global
Justice, pp. 116-24.
Hillel
Steiner, “Just Taxation and International Redistribution,” Global Justice, pp. 171-80.
Beitz, PT, Part 3.
Remember
to vote!
Week 13 (Nov. 14th):
Environmental Justice
Derek
Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Oxford
University Press, New York (1984), Ch. 16.
Henry
Shue, “Subsistence emissions and Luxury Emissions,” Law and Policy, 5: 39-59 (1993).
Weiss,
D’Amato, et al. Environmental Ethics,
in International Environmental Law Anthology 182-89, 421-40
Week 14 (Nov. 21st):
Justice
in International Develoment
Sen, DF, Chs. 2, 5, 6.
Joseph Stiglitz, “What I Learned at the World
Economic Crisis,” The New Republic
(April 17th, 2000), http://www.tnr.com/041700/stiglitz041700.html
Amy
Chua, The Paradox of Free Market
Democracy, 41 Harv. Intl. L.J.
287 (2000)
Viet
Dinh, What’s the Law in Law and
Development, 3 Greenbag 19
(1999).
Week 15 (Nov. 28th):
Political
Self-determination and Secession
Allen
Buchanan, “Toward a Theory of Secession,” Ethics
101: 322-342 (1991).
John Calhoun,
A
Disquisition on Government
25-54
Abraham
Lincoln, First
& Second
Inaugural Addresses, Gettysburg
Address
Texas
v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1868).
Extra Session?:
Is
there a role for the state?