Fall 2025

5370 International Law - MIRASOLA- 13940

Professor(s): Chris Mirasola (FACULTY)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: International Law

Time: 10:30a-12:00p MW Location: 210

Course Outline: This course has three objectives. First, it will address the nature and sources of international law, with a particular focus on how to reason like an international lawyer. Second, it will establish the powers, responsibilities, privileges, and immunities of the primary actors in the international legal system (particularly, states, international organizations, corporations, and individuals). Third, it will introduce select topics regarding international law, including the laws of war, human rights law, international criminal law, and incorporation of international law into the U.S. legal system. Throughout, the course will apply these doctrines to pressing current events, so that students leave the class with a nuanced understanding of how international law shapes (and is shaped by) geopolitics and prepared for more specific upper-level international law courses.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.

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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Available

Course Materials

Book(s) Required

Course Materials: J AMES C RAWFORD, B ROWNLIE’S P RINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (9th edition, 2019) - ISBN: 9780198737445