General Instructions
1. This is a seminar-based course, renewed after some years’ hiatus. Each week will have one or two topics for classes. The list of topics by week will be circulated together with these instructions.
2. Three young Chinese international lawyers will be leading seminars on their specialized topics in Week 1, Week 5 and Week 7. Their inclusion is based on both publications and practical experience. We will all circulate in advance further readings and/or outlines.
3. For Dr. Jia’s seminars, it is intended to designate students to prepare short papers on rules of international law in respect of each week’s topics. In the course of presentation of those papers, I will introduce Chinese practice at appropriate junctures to facilitate a comparison/debate of the latter with/in light of the former. A Chinese perspective, if any, will be more easily discerned this way.
4. By 5pm 20 April, students are expected to each submit a final paper.
5. The course’s mark consists of discussion/paper (50%) (but this is subject to the final version of the roster so that I would know whether the score could be spread further) and the final paper (50 %). 6. A few abbreviations will be regularly referenced, set out as below: 1) OUP-Oxford University Press; 2) CUP-Cambridge University Press; 3) AJIL-American Journal of International Law; 4) Recueil des cours-Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law; 5) Chinese JIL-Chinese Journal of International Law; 6) ICJ-International Court of Justice; 7) UNSC-UN Security Council; 7) WTO-World Trade Organization. Heinonline would be recommended for easy access to most of the non-Chinese publications. The official websites of the UN, ICJ, WTO, ITLOS (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, based in Hamburg), and Chinese FM would be quite useful.