Postgraduate Course: History and Theory of International Law (LAWS11241)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 20 | 
ECTS Credits | 10 | 
 
 
| Summary | The course will survey the following principal topics:  Nature of ius gentium in Roman law; medieval just-war theory; debates over conquest of the New World; innovations by Grotius in the Seventeenth Century; Nature of positivist thought in international law; contributions of the historical school and of heterodox schools of thought in the Nineteenth Century; Vienna School in inter-War period; challenges of socialist, Third-World, feminist, ecological thought. | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes 
|     The intention is to develop expertise and critical thought on the part of the students in relation to the following topics:  Nature of ius gentium in Roman law; medieval just-war theory; debates over conquest of the New World; innovations by Grotius in the Seventeenth Century; Nature of positivist thought in international law; contributions of the historical school and of heterodox schools of thought in the Nineteenth Century; Vienna School in inter-War period; challenges of socialist, Third-World, feminist, ecological thought.
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Additional Information
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Stephen Neff 
Tel: (0131 6)50 2067 
Email: Stephen.Neff@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mr David Morris 
Tel: (0131 6)50 2010 
Email: David.Morris@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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