Genocide, War-Crimes & Law

Catalog description

This course is the second legal-international course as follow-up to POL-428 International Law & Organizations, but can be taken also independently. It analyzes the global and historic legal impact of war-crimes, crimes against Humanity and Genocide, which violate Laws of War and International Law, but politico-legal limits weaken prosecuting such crimes by national or international tribunals. Case-studies and film-clips range from the U.S. Civil War to today, with a brief survey of Human Rights in the United Nations and European Union.