International Law and Ethics

Subject LAWS70369 (2011)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2011.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 7 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

Semester 2, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable


Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: The total class time is between 24 and 26 hours.
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Corequisites: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Recommended Background Knowledge: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Non Allowed Subjects: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Core Participation Requirements: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.

Coordinator

Prof Sundhya Pahuja

Contact

For more information, contact the Melbourne Law Masters office.

Email law-masters@unimelb.edu.au or phone +61 3 8344 6190.

Alternatively, visit our website:

www.masters.law.unimelb.edu.au

Subject Overview:

Principal topics will be drawn from the following:

  • Global poverty and inequality
  • Climate and resources
  • Violence and war
  • International intervention and administration
  • Global health policy
  • Biotechnology
  • Trade
  • Human rights.

Ethical approaches to the international to be studied will include:

  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Realism
  • Positivism
  • Critical theory.
Objectives:

The aim of this subject is to investigate the relation between legal and ethical understandings of the international domain by studying a series of current and pressing global problems.

A student who has successfully completed this subject should:

  • Have an understanding of the legal and ethical dimensions of the role of international institutions, particularly the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) with respect to human rights and development
  • Have a thorough grasp of the range of major ethical approaches to international law, justice and the international domain
  • Be aware of the historical context and range of theories of law and ethics propounded by international institutions
  • Have a detailed critical understanding of selected ethical approaches to the international
  • Have a detailed knowledge of processes and actors involved in the institutionalisation of ‘ethical’ responses to specific subject matters of international law.
Assessment: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Prescribed Texts: Core subject materials will be provided free of charge to all students. Some subjects require further texts to be purchased. Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date

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