Seminar: Law of Nationbuilding
(Spring 2009)
Thursday 1600-1740
Room 545
Professor Henry H. Perritt,
Jr.
hperritt@kentlaw.edu
(312) 906-5098
Final papers
Chris Bailey: Return to
Pragmatism: The International Criminal Court's Place in the International
Arena
Ian Johnson: The
Failure of Economic Sanctions
Joe Opron: The
Right to Water Paradox: How Commoditization and "Collective Bargaining
Can Bring Water to the Poor Rural Masses
Joe Panza: Prosecuting Donald Rumsfeld:
A New Framework for Approaching the Relationship Between International and
Domestic Law
Katie Woody: Truth
and Justice: The Role of Truth Commissions in Post-Conflict Societies
Schedule:
22 January: Get acquainted, discuss interests, select paper
topics
29 January: Bailey/Panza initial presentation
26 February: Discuss implications of Kosovo's independence
Woody - effectiveness of UN Security Council
Bailey - European policymaking
Opron - US approach to multilateralism
Panza - Russia and Serbia
Johnson - Legality of independence
5 March: Discussion with Aaron Boeder about KFOR experience
12 March:
19 March: no class (Spring Break)
26 March: Final Woody presentation/Elissa Golberg, former Representative
of Canada in Kandahar, Afghanistan [to be sorted out]
2 April: Final Opron presentation
9 April: Final Bailey presentation
16 April: Final Panza presentation
23 April: Final Johnson presentation
30 April:
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., Structures
and Standards for Political Trusteeships,
8 UCLA J. INT’L LAW & FOR AFF. 385 (2003) [Word
version] in its entirety.
- 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
- Declarations of independence and recognition: Kosovo and South Ossetia
- Protection of property under international human rights law
- Legal issues associated with Kosovo participation in U.S.Sports Film Festival
- Alien Tort Act claim by government of Republic of Kosovo against Serbia
- Analysis of prospects for Kosovo's future as an independent state
- Analysis of Turkey's evolving role as a regional power
- Analysis of Russia's new market-based imperialism
- Evaluation of 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
- Evaluating human rights claims asserted in ECHR by PKK leader Ocalan
- 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
- Counterterrorism strategies
- Economic development and insurgency
- Develop arguments for judicial review of visa denials
- Privatization and "takings"
- Introducing financial services intermediaries in former socialist economies