Postgraduate Course: History and Theory of International Law (LAWS11241)

Course Outline
School	School of Law	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	The course will survey the following principal topics: Nature of ius gentium in Roman law; medieval just-war theory; debates over conquest of the New World; innovations by Grotius in the Seventeenth Century; Nature of positivist thought in international law; contributions of the historical school and of heterodox schools of thought in the Nineteenth Century; Vienna School in inter-War period; challenges of socialist, Third-World, feminist, ecological thought.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
The intention is to develop expertise and critical thought on the part of the students in relation to the following topics: Nature of ius gentium in Roman law; medieval just-war theory; debates over conquest of the New World; innovations by Grotius in the Seventeenth Century; Nature of positivist thought in international law; contributions of the historical school and of heterodox schools of thought in the Nineteenth Century; Vienna School in inter-War period; challenges of socialist, Third-World, feminist, ecological thought.