Classes
June 29 - August 1
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: 7/31 (3 cr.) MTWThF 9:00am - 10:40am
International Products Liability----------------------------------M
Exam: 7/31 (3 cr.) MTWThF 9:00am - 10:40am
Comparative Criminal Justice---------------------------Mr Joseph Hoffmann
Comparing the criminal adjudication processes in the United States and the United Kingdom, on subjects including the right to counsel, searches and seizures, police interrogations, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, the jury system and criminal trials, sentencing, and post-trial review, with special attention to the differing impacts that American-style and European-style federalism have on the American and British criminal justice systems.
Exam: 8/1 (3 cr.) MTWThF 10:50am - 12:30pm
Public International Law ----------------------------------Mr Mark Janis and Mr John Noyes
Three questions animate this course: How are the rules of International Law made? How is International Law applied? When is International Law efficacious? We introduce the sources of international legal rules: Treaties, Custom, General Principles, the Opinions of Judges and Publicists, Equity, Natural Law, and Fundamental Norms. We examine some of the fora in which International Law is applied: the Courts of the United States, International Arbitration, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights. And we study selected issues from some of the fields of International Relations where International Law plays an important role: War and Peace, Human Rights, International Trade & Commerce, the Law of the Sea, Territorial Disputes, the Subjects of International Law, Jurisdictional Problems among States, and the United Nations.
Exam: 8/1 (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 2008. Students may not take more than 6 credits in the program, nor more than one tutorial.
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, 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’ 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
Joseph Hoffmann, Professor and Director of Int'l Programs, Indiana Bloomington. Former law clerk to Mr. Justice William H. Rehnquist (Supreme Court) and Judge Phyllis Kravitch (11th Cir.), and faculty VA, Erlanger, Jena, Paris II, Tokyo. Fulbright Fellow. Author: Federal Criminal Law; Comprehensive Criminal Procedure; Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Right to Counsel. BA Harvard, JD U WA.
Mark Janis, Professor Univ Connecticut, and Fellow Commoner, The Queen’s College Oxford. Formerly Faculty Aix-Marseille, Beijing, UCLA, Cornell, Exeter, Heidelberg, Oxford, Paris I, Paris XIII, Riga, Tilburg. Former Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell. Author: Introduction to International Law; Sea Power & Law of the Sea; Soviet Law & Economy; Casebook on International Law; The American Tradition in International Law; Religion and International Law; International Law Stories; International Courts for the Twenty-First Century. Rhodes Scholar. A.B. Princeton; B.A., M.A. Oxford; J.D. Harvard.
John Noyes, Professor California Western; former faculty Connecticut, Wake Forest, Roger Williams, Suffolk, Victoria NZ. Author: International Law; The United Nations at 50; Law of the Sea; Law of the Sea in a Nutshell; International Law Stories. BA Amherst, JD Virginia.
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