International Law and Organization
Faculty
N. Okuwaki
Description
This class aims at understanding the present status of institutionalization of international relations. As an advanced course of international law, the focus is placed on how and why the international organizations have been set up and increased in number in contemporary world, and how they caused changes in the state-to-state world system and the logic of international law as well. This year it is planned to shed lights especially on the legitimacy of international organization and, as a first step, Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Community in the International Trading System , written by Deborah Z. Cass, is taken up. Participants of this class are required to make a report in the class as assigned chapter to chapter of the book. Participants are also requested to write a paper at the end of the term on legitimacy problems of any international organization they have interest.