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LAWS 3604

International Organizations

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Nature, character, legal status and jurisdiction of intergovernmental international organizations. Rights and duties of states arising from membership in international organizations. Distinction between international and supra-national institutions. United Nations system, selected subsidiary organs, and specialized agencies; non-governmental organizations at times of crisis.

2026

Readings

  • Ian Hurd. International Organizations: Politics, Law, Practice, 5th ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2024).
  • Ian Hurd, ch. 2 – Theory, Methods, and International Organizations; 2) John Currie, ch. 1 – The Nature and Origins of Public International Law at pg. 1-19; 3) Stacey E. Goddard and
  • Abraham Newman, “Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System”, International Organization (Supplement 2025) 79/1 at 12-25, library
  • Anne Orford and Florian Hoffman, Introduction: Theorizing International Law, in The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford U. Press, 2016), library online; 2) John
  • Currie, ch. 2 – International Legal Personality at pg. 21-40; 3) Jan Klabbers, Theorizing International Organizations, in Oxford Handbook of the Theory of IL; and 4) Rebecca Cordell and Alex Dukalskis,
  • “Authoritarianism, Global Politics, and the Future of Human Rights”, International Organization (Supplement 2025) 79/1 at 162-179, library online.
  • Ian Hurd, ch. 3 – The United Nations I: Law and Administration; 2) United Nations Charter, 1945, online: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text; 3) Sean Richmond, “Unbound
  • in War? International Law and Britain’s Participation in the Korean War” (2020) 10/2, Asian Journal of International Law at 233-260, library online; and 4) UN General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4, Territorial
  • integrity of Ukraine: defending the principles of the Charter of the UN, 12 Oct. 2022, available at: https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/ES-11/4
2026

Readings

  • Defending International Criminal Court”, The Maple, 12 Dec. 2025, online: https://www.readthemaple.com/bob-rae-had-wings-clipped-for-defending-international-criminal-

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): LAWS 2601 and 0.5 credit in LAWS at the 2000 level or PAPM 1001 and PSCI 2003 . Lectures three hours a week.

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