Students interested in issues of public international law are warmly invited to participate in the 2nd edition of Global Classroom Initiative. Interested persons are asked to contact Dr. hab. Monika Jagielska (moika.jagielska@us.edu.pl). Below you will find more details about this initiative. Particiaption is free of charge.
Global Classroom 2023
Global Classroom 2023 – a „flexible course learning opportunity” in response to the calendar demands of the participants, as well as academic requirements. GC will be based on Prof. Patrick Hugg’s Fall semester: Int’l Law course as the core, emanating from his regular class at Loyola University in New Orleans, and joined with participants entering when they wish, departing when they wish, with as much structure as they wish. Time: each Tuesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. US Central Time – 4 p.m. in Germany and Poland. 10 a.m. in Knoxville. The classes will be recorded for those who wish only to view the class afterward. Some students may want to drop in occasionally, while others wish to participate more fully. The Loyola course begins in 2 weeks on Tuesday, August 22.The organizers will post an unlimited array of videos in the course’s online Library. Therefore, all are available to everyone.
The broad, basic topics are as follows:
- The Law of Treaties
- The United Nations
- The International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Courts
- War in Ukraine: Aggression and War Crimes
- China & The International Community
- International Economic Law & the WTO
- International Human Rights Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Health Law – WHO, COVID, COVAX
- The Law of the Sea – UNCLOS, migration over international waters
- Immigration/Asylum Refugee Law
- U.S. handling of Migrants/Refugees and International Obligations
- Syria and International Law today
- Germany to pay 1 billion euros in reparations for genocide in colonial Namibia
- Yemen
- Post-Queen Scottish Independence
- The U.S. announced in September 2022 that it will defend Taiwan. What does this mean, and what is the significance?
- Rohingya Genocide
- Palestine-Israel Conundrum
- Iran funding non-state military actors?
- Northern Ireland, the U.K., and the E.U. relations – disaster or blessing? A united Ireland?
- The use of drones in modern international law today
- The US & Afghanistan – the U.S. legal basis, non-state actors, neighbors, and the future of Afghanistan on its own?