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International Law - L05.3001.001

Updated April 2009

Unit 1: Introduction to International Law

I. Theoretical Background

A. The Framework: Foreign Office vs. Global Governance

1. The Foreign Office Model Versus the Global Governance Model: an Introduction

2. Christoph Schreuer, The Waning of the Sovereign State: Towards a New Paradigm for International Law?, 4 Eur. J. Int’l L. 447, 447–59 (1993)

3. Judge Hisashi Owada, Some Reflections on Justice in a Globalizing World, 97 Am. Soc’y Int’l L. Proc. 181 (2003) (edited version)

4. B.S. Chimni, International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making, 15 Eur. J. Int'l L. 1, 6–19 (2004)

B. The Logics

1. Overview- Military, Markets, Morals

2. Realism

a. Stephen D. Krasner, Realism, Imperialism, and Democracy: A Response to Gilbert, 20 Pol. Theory 38, 38–45 (1992).
b. Philip Carter, The Torture Two-Step: Bush’s New Torture Order and Its Loopholes, Slate, July 23, 2007.

3. Institutionalism

a. Robert O. Keohane & Lisa L. Martin, The Promise of Institutionalist Theory, 20 Int’l
Sec.39, 42–46, 48–50 (1995).
b. John H. Cushman, Jr., Trade Group Strikes Blow at U.S. Environmental Law, NY Times, April 7. 1998

4. Cosmopolitanism

a. David Held, Law of States, Law of Peoples: Three Models of Sovereignty, 8 Legal Theory 1,
23–24, last paragraph 30–38 (2002)

II. Applying the Model: The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

A. Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963, Art. 36

B. The Early Cases: Paraguay

1. Case Concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. USA),
International Court of Justice, Provisional Measures Order, April 9, 1998
2. Breard v. Greene , US Supreme Court, April 14, 1998

C. Mexico

1. The Avena Case (Mexico v. U.S.A., March 31, 2004)
2. U.S. Withdrawal from ICJ Jurisdiction over Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
    3. Medellin v. Texas, US Supreme Court, March 2008
    4. Lithwick article
    5. Mexico's Request for "Interpretation" of Avena Judgment (ICJ, Jan. 19, 2009)