International Law and Global Justice

Harvard HKS

Can international law be a tool for promoting global justice? Or is international law increasingly obsolete in the face of multiple challenges in today’s world? In this class, we will explore these issues looking at diverse and important areas of international law: 1) international human rights law and accountability for mass atrocity; 2) international environmental law and climate justice; 3) the laws of war, especially the decision to go to war and wars of aggression; 4) international…