Seminar: Law of Nationbuilding
(Fall 2007)
Wednesday
1600-1800
Room 545
Professor Henry H. Perritt,
Jr.
hperritt@kentlaw.edu
(312) 906-5098
Topics & final papers
Frank H. Bieszczat: Turkey and the PKK from a Turkish Point
of View
Robert D. Connealy: A
Moving Target: Accountability and Regulation of America’s War-Fighting
Contractors
Adam Cumberworth: Inter-racial tension as a barrier to full
development of Brazil's potential
Ausaf K. Farooqi: Islamic state in the 21 century
Lubna S. el Gendi: Epidemics in Failed States: The Legality
of Quarantine and International Intervention
Elizabeth Koehn: Redefining Armed Conflict as a Jurisdictional
Prerequisite
Eric Oddo: The Battle Between Territorial Integrity and
Self Determination: An Examination of Hard Partition as a Possible Outcome
of Iraq
Alex Rackow: Does the UN Security Council have Authority
to create new States?
Sulekha Tummala: Kosovo, Darfur and the gap in Humanitarian
Intervention
Schedule:
29 August: Get acquainted, discuss interests, select paper
topics
5 September: Tummala & Koehn
12 September: no class--university holiday
19 September: Rackow & Conneally
26 September: el Gendi & Bieszczat
3 October: Farooqi & Oddo
10 October: Cumberworth
17 October: Perritt - KLA
24 October: Reviewer presentations on papers
31 October: Second presentations: Koehn, Connealy, Bieszczat
7 November: Second presentations: Oddo, Cumberworth, Farooqi
14 November: Second presentations: Rackow, Tummala, el Gendi
21 November: No class meeting
28 November: FBI Special Agent Travis Carlisle (tentative)
6 December (last class): discussion of U.S. foreign policy
in the next administration
First day assignment:
- Read Course description
- Read seminar "rules"
- Browse student topics and papers from previous semesters (go up one level
and click on the semester)
- Browse Operation
Kosovo home page (http://operationkosovo.kentlaw.edu)
- Skim list of possible topics (you are not limited to these)
- Read Kosovo Anti-Corruption report (.html) (Word)
- Skim Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Making
International Criminal Law Realistic (draft - Word file))
- Skim Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Structures
and Standards for Political Trusteeships,
8 UCLA J. INT’L LAW & FOR AFF. 385 (2003) [Word
version] in its entirety.
- Read pages 286-302 (nn 81-121 and accompanying text) of Henry H. Perritt,
Jr., Economic Sustainability and Final
Status for Kosovo, 25 U. PA. J. INT’L ECON. LAW 259 (2004) [Word
version]).
- Browse Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Iraq and
the Future of U. S. Foreign Policy: Failures of Legitimacy, ___ Syr. J.
Int'l L. ___ (2005) (Microsoft Word version)
- Read Note on Hernando deSoto
- Come to class prepared to discuss these materials and to engage in a serious
discussion about your topic or possible topics.
Other materials
Diplomatic
corps restructured
Musical support
for Kim Jong Il's cult of personality
Possible topics
- Analysis of aspects of final status negotiation for Kosovo
- Analysis of Russia's new market-based imperialism
- Evaluation of trial strategies
in ICTY trial of Ramush Haradinaj
- Jurisdictional prerequisite for an "armed conflict" in courts
trying war crimes
- Guerrilla practice and how it should shape customary international law
of armed conflict; application of "laws of war" to insurgencies
- Evaluation of ICTY, ICC rules in light of U.S. debate over Military Tribunals
in Guantanamo
- Extinguishing old (1930s/1950s) claims by Cuban exiles resident in U.S.
as a "Taking"
- Pursuing an anti-corruption initiative in Kosovo; designing a program to
investigate and prosecute human trafficking in Kosovo
- Assessing the future of the PKK - Kurdish insurgency in Turkey (military;
political sociology)
- Evaluating human rights claims asserted in ECHR by PKK leader Ocalan
- Authority for UN Security Council to create a new state in Kosovo or Iraq
- Assessing the "three-state" solution for Iraq
- Assessing nationbuilding efforts
in Iraq
- Democratization and market reform in Turkministan
- Building democracy: political parties, the press, and other institutions
of civil society
- Role of music and art in nationbuilding
- "Just wars" in the 21st Century
- Counterterrorism strategies
- Economic development strategies for Afghanistan
- Economic development strategies for Iraq
- Economic development and insurgency
- Develop arguments for judicial review of visa denials
- History of the Kosova Liberation Army ("KLA") and other insurgencies,
emphasizing methods used by insurgents
- Privatization and "takings"
- Introducing financial services intermediaries in former socialist economies