Seminar: Law of Nationbuilding
(Fall 2010)
Thursday 1600-1740
Room 547
Professor Henry H. Perritt,
Jr.
hperritt@kentlaw.edu
(312) 906-5098
Important: read the "Rules" posted on the webpage
just above this one. Those rules define how you will be evaluated and graded
in the seminar.
Participants and paper topics
Quenlen Gilliam: Lessons
of Privatization
Jordana Dawson-Hayes: What
makes an effective NGO: being a culturally relevant change agent
Schedule:
25 August: Get acquainted, discuss interests, select paper
topics
1 September: Discuss outlines; get Dawson-Hayes interviews
scheduled; "cast" the privatization paper
8 September:
15 September:
22 September:
29 September:
6 October:
13 October:
20 October:
27 October:
31 March:
3 November:
10 November:
17 November:
24 November (no class--Thanksgiving)
29 November (Tuesday):
1 December:
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
Musical support
for Kim Jong Il's cult of personality
Possible topics
- Effect of UN-sanctioned Lybian intervention on international law ("Responsibility
to Protect" doctrine)
- Legality of killing of Osama Bin Laden
- Legality of targeted drone strikes
- Declarations of independence and recognition: Kosovo and South Ossetia;
future of secession after the ICJ decision on the independent of Kosovo
- Future of the Kurds
- Turkey's policy toward the Kurds
- Theories of international development and foreign aid
- Future of the UN Security Council
- Protection of property under international human rights law
- 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
- 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"
- Assessing nationbuilding efforts in Iraq
- Democratization and market reform in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Building democracy: political parties, the press, and other institutions
of civil society
- Role of music, theatre, movies, and art in nationbuilding
- Terrorism and counterterrorism strategies and tactics
- Economic development and insurgency
- Develop arguments for judicial review of visa denials
- Privatization and "takings"
- Introducing financial services intermediaries in countries in transition
- Practicalities of reforming legal systems