Ideas in Conflict

Eric Engle has taught law in Paris (Creapole-ESDI), Germany (Universitat Bremen), Estonia (Tartu University) and Russia (Pericles LL.M. Institute) and has worked as a research aid at Harvard Law School. He currently teaches law at Humboldt Universitat, Berlin.

Introduction; Part I Contemporary International Law; Methodology; The Origins of Sovereignty in Roman and Medieval Law; The Transformation of Sovereignty and International Law in Late Modernity; The Transformation of International Law by Human Rights; The UN Convention System and US Foreign Policy; IR Realism and the Positivity of International Law; Part II The Global War on Terror; Failed States; Containment and Disengagement; Assassination and International Law; Humanitarian Intervention and International Law; Lawfare, Wikileaks and the Rule of Law.