POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: English Canada, Constitution Act, 1982, The Wall Street Journal
16 Oct 2018
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Major theme: tension btwn law and politics think critically about this, organize notes around objective. Influence of political realities: states can refuse to abide by it states will very rarely admit to violating il, what is international law, again law versus politics & want to unpack what il is. Structure of international law: the un, states, state accountability, state jurisdiction, state immunity. Sources of international law: treaties, customary international law. Intl crim law: hold movements and people responsible for crimes, extradition, state send individual back to another state for breaching criminal law. ***on"s civil procedure and il class will focus on canadian interactions in il. ***intl humanitarian law: uk made up v creative interpretation of its sc resolution, saying that resolution authorized the war in iraq. Pol340 marking scheme: exam 45, midterm 25, fact pattern fictional story and apply (look over exams, want to see how you apply it, essay 30, maybe from part 2 of the course.
