It Features a Collaborative Learning Environment. the Students Will Essentially Run This

INTERNATIONAL LAW ADVOCACY—READING Intercession: Spring 2016—Prof. Slomanson Course Web Page (CWP) = Day Subjects Advocacy Assignments (This Reading page = “•” = per hour break points the course snapshot. “Underlined” = go to CWP, Chapter (Ch. _) link The Daily Blueprint “” = go to Problems & Print Cases link on CWP = broad overview.) 1 Course Overview Course admin & Thrilling 3-hour lecture on course substance Jan 4 2 Sources / State- • Paquete Habana (Ch. 1) & Foreign Sources (Ch. 1) & Prob Jan 5 hood & Secession #1C & Int’l Court Justice Statute (Ch. 1), Art 38.1 & Sovereign • Prob #2A & ICJ Kosovo Independence (Ch. 2) & Immunity & Saudi Arabia v. Nelson (Ch. 2) Consuls & • Mexico v. USA (Avena, Ch. 2) & Radwan Embassies / Orgs & Reparation Injuries Suffered 3 Orgs (Sec Council) • Prob #3C Jan 6 / Jurisdiction / • Nottebohm & The SS Lotus & Rendition / Secret Detentions (Ch. 5) & Arar (Ch. 5) Sovereignty / • Palestinian Wall & Israeli Flotilla Blockade & Reservations Treaties (generally) 4 Treaties (US) / • Weinberger Treaty (case, Ch. 7) & Prob #7A Jan 7 Adjudication / & Norwegian Loans Use of Force / • Open Door-Dublin Well Woman & Law UN Charter (Ch. 3) Articles 2.4, 51, 39, 41, 42 of War / Detainees & Nicaragua v. US & Nuclear Weapons (Ch. 9) / Human Rts (Geno) • Calley Ct-Martial (Ch. 9) & Rasul Habeas Case (Ch. 9) & Bosnia v. Serbia (Ch. 10) 5 Human Rts (other) / • Opuz v. Turkey (Ch. 10) & Italian Crucifix Case (Ch. 10) Jan 8 Environment / & LGBT UN Debate (Ch. 10) Business • Muslim Headscarf (Ch. 10) & Legality-Threat Use Nukes & Prob #11B (start) • Prob #11B (finish) & Italian Marble (Ch. 12) & Letters of Credit

• This is a one-unit night class. It runs from Monday, January 4 through and including Friday, January 8, 2016, from 6:00-8:50 PM. It focuses on oral advocacy in an International Law context. The case and problem selection is designed to promote interest in International Law, as opposed to ample coverage. Full subject matter coverage is available in the 3-unit spring course. • It features a collaborative learning environment. The students will essentially run this class, with occasional coaching by the “judge” (Prof. Slomanson). • The professor’s assessment of student oral advocacy performance will generate one of the following transcript grades: Honors, Credit, Low Pass, No Credit. Fellow students will be expected to participate in each moot, by asking questions of the advocates (or prof). • Students will argue cases and problems. All of them will be assigned the day before. The cases are on the course web page, at: . The problems (and some cases) are posted at the Problems & Print Cases link on the CWP. • Bringing your laptop to class will facilitate quick access to resources for many of our discussions. You are encouraged to peruse the treaties and other documents (on the CWP), that are relevant to the cases and problems. • Each advocate will normally have 2-3 minutes to present—with potential interruptions for prof/student questions. • You are free to volunteer—at, or by the end of, each day’s class (for another day). You are also free to switch assignments. But if the assignee does a “last minute” job, that may influence the assignor’s course grade. • The Student Handbook is silent regarding grade distribution in this type of course. The only relevant detail I can offer is that the % of Honors Credit grades should be comparable to the upper end distribution in graded courses. • Students who miss a class, or significant portion thereof (e.g., not present for an assigned case or problem), will be automatically withdrawn—unless they’ve dropped the course. • I will run this class like my Cal Civ Pro classes. I’ll thus be making suggestions from time to time re oral advocacy. So, like Vegas, what happens in our intercession course stays in our intercession course.