DDRO 25A35 - (Un)making the World: Critical approaches to international law

The objective of this course is to introduce students to critical approaches to international law and to excavate the ideas and histories that help shape international law's subjects, categories, and boundaries. We will engage with critical theories (TWAIL, critical legal studies, Marxism) that challenge the narrative of international law as a universal and progressive project. This course consists of 3 parts, which will provide students with a foundation to reflect on both the limits and potential of international law. First, we will explore how colonialism helped produce international law's actors (the State, victim, perpetrator, and international community). Second, we will engage with non-legal discourses (narrative, mythology, emotion) to explore how these categories are sustained. Finally, we will ask whether the discourse presents a crisis of imagination that makes alternative international engagements unthinkable.

Alexia KATSIGINIS

Séminaire

English

Autumn 2022-2023

35% : Reaction papers over the course of the semester 30% : In-class group exercise 35% : Final Paper