OAMI 2160 - Migration and International Criminal Law

Migration and International Criminal Law is a selective course offered to students registered in PSIA's MA programs. The course examines how migration policies are designed to avoid the legal responsibility of asylum States, and how this policymaking arguably ends up giving rise to individual criminal responsibility of these States’ agents.

By examining EU migration policies, the liberal project is revisited at the crime scene, where populations were exterminated, and rights were born. Drawing on this case study, the course examines whether the migration-related scholarship and litigation are undergoing a paradigm shift: from human rights law to international criminal law.

International Criminal Law was founded to address complex apparatuses of power. Its mandate is to hold to account the most responsible politicians and bureaucrats. Its mission is to render justice to victims of the most heinous crimes. Notwithstanding the performance of the ICC thus far, the course finally analyses whether International Criminal Law has the potential to better describe and regulate border crimes against ‘migrants’.

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Learning Outcomes :

• Providing students with advanced knowledge of international law and contemporary migration policies.
• Prodding students to consider innovative legal frameworks that may better describe and regulate these policies.
• Training students to apply complex legal frameworks to a set of facts arising out of the above mentioned policies.
• Explaining students not only what the Law is, but also how the Law evolves; not only how the Law rules, but what role it plays in designing and sanctioning the policies it is regulating.

Professional Skills :

• Equip students with the fundamental legal principles governing these policies under international criminal law.
• Develop the students’ analytical skills and critical thinking over complex and cutting-edge political and legal matters

Upon request, during the last class, and after grading.

• Online learning activities: 0 hours a week / 0 hours a semester
• Reading and Preparation for Class: 4 hours a week / 48 hours a semester - Research and Preparation for Group Work: 0 hours a week / 0 hours a semester - Research and Writing for Individual Assessments: 0 hours a week / 0 hours a semester