Professor Christine Chinkin, NAB 6.15

LLM (Public International Law)

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

International Dispute Resolution: Non-Adjudicatory Processes is concerned with the way in which conflicts or potential conflicts, both between states and with other participants in the international arena, can be peacefully managed and resolved. It is a half unit course running for 10 weeks in MT.

The course considers the options available for the peaceful settlement of international disputes. . It will examine the general obligation under international law to settle disputes peacefully, focussing particularly (but not exclusively) on non-adjudicatory means of international dispute settlement, such as negotiation, inquiry, mediation and conciliation. Using controversial case studies (including those relating to peace processes), the course will examine the respective advantages and disadvantages of these various mechanisms, the interplay between them, and the factors that influence their effectiveness. It will also explore some of the theoretical issues that underpin international dispute resolution.

Twenty hours of seminars in the MT. One hour of (revision) seminars in the ST.

Students will be expected to complete one formative essay of 1,500 words during the course.

J Collier & V Lowe, The Settlement of Disputes in International Law Institutions and Procedures (Oxford, 1999); J Merrills, International Dispute Settlement (5th ed, Cambridge, 2011); C. Bell, 'Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status', 100 AJIL (2006) 373; 'International Dispute Resolution' from Hilary Astor and Christine Chinkin, Dispute Resolution in Australia, Sydney, Butterworths, 2002; Anne Peters, International Dispute Settlement: A Network of Cooperational Duties', 14 European Journal of International Law 1 (2003).

One two-hour exam in the ST (100%).