Classes
June 28 - July 30
European Union Law--------------------------------------Mr Paul Craig
Institutions and procedures of the European Communities, including direct effect, standing, damages; relations of European Union, national and international law; free movement of goods; competition law.
Exam: 7/29 (3 cr.) MTWThF 9:00am - 10:40am
Int'l Environmental Law----------------------------------Mr Mark Squillace
This course will explore the burgeoning field of international environmental law. It will begin with a review of global environmental challenges, including climate change, ozone depletion, species extinction, transboundary air and water pollution and the allocation and management of common water resources. It will then explore some of the root causes of these problems, especially consumption and population growth. This will lay the groundwork for a discussion of foundational principles and criteria for managing common and shared resources. Among the issues to be considered will be the role of ethics and cultural values in addressing global problems, the merits of deploying various economic tools such as property rights, marketable permits, and tax policy to solve these problems, and the challenge of promoting sustainable development at the global scale. The course will then shift to an historical overview of international environmental law. This part of the course will review international institutions, such as the United Nation Environment Programme, and the various administrative bodies used to negotiate and manage treaties and conventions, as well as the processes used by these agencies to negotiate, implement, and enforce international environmental laws. Once these foundational materials have been covered the course will turn to a detailed study of three particular international environmental problems: ozone depletion; climate change, and biodiversity conservation. The course will conclude with a brief overview of the intersection between environmental law and international trade.
Exam: 7/29 (3 cr.) MTWThF 9:00am - 10:40am
Comparative Criminal Justice---------------------------
Comparing the criminal justice systems of the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries, this course includes subjects such as principles of criminal liability, right to counsel, arrest, search and seizure, police interrogations and confessions, and sentencing practice and policy.
Exam: 7/30 (3 cr.) MTWThF 10:50am - 12:30pm
Public International Law ----------------------------------Mr John Knechtle
The course begins by examining the sources of international law, including treaties, custom, principles, natural law, equity, and opinions of judges and publicists. Next we look at the various mechanisms for peacefully settling international disputes, including diplomatic methods, adjudication (domestic, regional and international courts), arbitration, and hybrid systems. Then we will discuss the parameters of who has legal personality under international law from states to international organizations, corporations, nongovernmental organization, and individuals. Finally, we examine how international law protects and fails to protect human rights, as well as how international law seeks to address the use of military force to settle international disputes, using as case studies the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the bombing of Kosovo in 1998, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Exam: 7/30 (3 cr.) MTWThF 10:50am - 12:30pm
Exams are never given in advance.
Tutorial Program:
Normal Oxford education is by tutorials. Each student is assigned a paper to prepare in advance. The student meets weekly with a tutor, reads the paper prepared, and discusses it fully with the tutor. This provides intensive one-on-one training. Tutorials involve much reading, careful writing, and the oral, reasoned defense of a position. Tutorials are offered each year in European Union Law, International Human Rights, Juvenile Justice, Public International Law, Law of the Sea, Comparative Studies in Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Process, and Legal Philosophy. It is often possible to arrange tutorials in other subjects, if we can find a Tutor for the subject. Since the absence from Oxford of a Don may preclude the offering, a student enrolling for a tutorial should list an alternate in case the first choice is not available. Tutorials have been offered in the past by Eric Barendt, Chaloka Beyani, Isabella Bunn, Paul Craig, Paul Davies, Andrew Durand, John Eekelaar, Christine Gray, Katharine Grevling, Alan Griffiths, Keith Hawkins, David Hutchinson, Katja Ziegler, Bernadette Lynch, Peter Mirfield, Solange Mouthaan, Stephen Noguera, Frank Rose, Kirsti Samuels, Stephen Shute, Steven Smith, Richard Tur, P. Varadarajan and Paul Yowell. This does not necessarily mean that all of them will be available in 2010. Students may not take more than 6 credits nor more than one tutorial in the program.
A student may not take the same subject by tutorial and in a class. A student who elects a tutorial will pay tuition for the number of credits elected, including the tutorial credits, plus a tutorial surcharge ($550).
A student may not enroll in 2 law classes and a Tutorial. It must be either 2 law classes and no Tutorial or 1 law class and 1 Tutorial (providing USD with 2 Tutorial choices which cannot be the same as law class selected.)
Tutorials are a numerically graded course and carry 3 semester credits for each Tutorial.
Applications for Tutorials will be accepted as long as places remain. Applications should be accompanied by the correct amount due at the time of application.
Faculty:
Dr Isabella D Bunn, the 2010 Oxford Director and is affiliated with Regent's Park College, Oxford University, where she specializes in ethical aspects of international economic law and serves as Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture. In addition to directing USD’s Oxford program, she teaches in the area of public international law and human rights. She has worked as a legal advisor in the public and private sectors, including as General Counsel to the California World Trade Commission. Dr Bunn is currently completing a book on the right to development, editing a volume on the future of international economic law, and researching legal aspects of corporate social responsibility. She is a member of the California and District of Columbia Bars, and serves on several committees of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and the American Society of International Law. She is also a founding member of the Society of International Economic Law. Dr. Bunn divides her time between England and the United States, and in 2006 was appointed as Chair of Ethics at the Florida Institute of Technology College of Business. BSFS Georgetown; MA, JD USD (cume laude); Dipl., M. Phil. Oxford; Ph.D. Bristol
Paul Craig, Tutorial Fellow St John's College Oxford. Former faculty Connecticut, Cornell, Indiana, Osgoode Hall, Queensland, Virginia. Author: Administrative Law; Public Law and Democracy in the UK and the US; EC Law. BA, BCL Oxford
John Knechtle, Professor of Law, Florida Coastal. Teacher of the Year. Former director, ABA Central & East European Law Initiative Environmental Law Program. President, American & Caribbean Law Institute. Consultant, Organization of East Caribbean States. Fulbright Fellow. Law clerk to Judge Jack McLaughlin, Atlanta. Author: The First Amendment; Constitutional Law of the U.S. and Uzbekhistan. BA Wheaton, Cert Vrije Universiteit Brussels, JD Emory.
Mark Squillace, Professor of Law and Director, Natural Resources Law Center, Colorado. Former faculty Toledo, Wyoming, West Virginia. Former Director of Litigation, Environmental Policy Institute, and Special Assistant to the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior. Author: Natural Resources Law & Policy; NEPA Litigation Guide; Environmental Law Anthology; vols. 1 (Environmental Decisionmaking) & 3 (Air Pollution) of Environmental Law. BS Michigan State, JD Utah.
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