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This one-unit seminar will comprise 10 international and domestic human rights scholars, judges and activists who have made significant contributions to international justice, women and children¿s rights, environmental rights and indigenous rights. It is open to all Stanford undergraduate and graduate students. Students in the seminar will be encouraged to present their ongoing research and to develop new research projects (individually and collaboratively). Students wishing to do significant research and reading in the context of the seminar may, in consultation with one of the instructors, sign up for independent study. Law students are first required to be enrolled in an International Human Rights in the law school in order to participate.

Links among the establishment of democracy, economic growth, and the rule of law. How democratic, economically developed states arise. How the rule of law can be established where it has been historically absent. Variations in how such systems function and the consequences of institutional forms and choices. How democratic systems have arisen in different parts of the world. Available policy instruments used in international democracy, rule of law, and development promotion efforts.

Development problems and solutions from theoretical and practical perspectives, including village economies and global networks, during the present period of S. Asian growth.

The course will discuss the special challenges that Israel faces in the area of security and anti-terrorism. The course will address the different mechanisms used by Israel in this context, their legal and political context and public response to their use. The course will discuss the law of emergency in Israel in general as well as specific topics such as interrogations of suspects in terrorist activities, detentions, censorship, targeted killings of suspected terrorists, profiling and special issues related to the occupied territories (such as the security barrier). The analysis will use comparative case studies from other countries, as well.

EU institutions, the legislative process, policies, relations with the U.S., and enlargement and the future of the EU. History and theories of EU integration. Democratic accountability of the institutions, and the emerging party system. Principal policies in agriculture, regional development, the internal market, single currency, and competition. Emphasis is on policies that affect the relations with the U.S. including trade and security. Results of the EU's constitutional convention.

Global and sociological perspectives on science and technology expansion, comparing nations and regions. Social features such as gender equity; and social impact economic development strategies such as tech incubators, the triple helix model, and UN initiatives. Democratization, human rights, welfare of local populations, and national security. Policy issues, the digital divide, development debates, commodification of the public good, and notions of social change.

Recent work in political theory on global justice. Topics include global poverty, human rights, fair trade, immigration, climate change. Do developed countries have a duty to aid developing countries? Do rich countries have the right to close their borders to economic immigrants? When is humanitarian intervention justified? Readings include Charles Beitz, Thomas Pogge, John Rawls.

What is the character of international legal rules? Do they matter in international politics, and if so, to what degree? The foundational theories, principles, and sources of public international law. Prominent theories of international relations and how they address the role of law in international politics. Practical problems such as human rights, humanitarian intervention, and enforcement of criminal law. International law as a dynamic set of rules, at times influenced by power, at other times constraining it, but always essential to studying international relations.

The involvement of U.S. and the UN in major wars and international interventions since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN Charter's provisions on the use of force, the origins and evolution of peacekeeping, the reasons for the breakthrough to peacemaking and peace enforcement in the 90s, and the ongoing debates over the legality and wisdom of humanitarian intervention. Case studies include Croatia and Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor, and Afghanistan.