Lewkowicz - Philosophy of international law - plan de cours

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Philosophy of International Law Gregory Lewkowicz International law plays an ever-increasing role in present-day human intercourse. In this context, a general knowledge of the intellectual foundations of international law and of the main debates of philosophy and theory of international law is needed in order to critically understand contemporary legal issues. The aim of the course is to provide students with such a general background and to foster students’ ability to deal theoretically with international legal problems. From pre-modern to contemporary times, the course goes over the major philosophies and theories of international law and provides students with the concepts required to tackle contemporary international legal problems. The course is divided into three sections dealing respectively with pre-modern (I), modern (II) and contemporary (III) philosophies and theories of international law. Each section is divided into several chapters dealing with a philosopher or a tradition of thought. Method The classes are discussion-based. Each session is divided into a general presentation of the subject by the lecturer and then a discussion with the audience on the basis of the assigned readings. For each session, students have to read one or two article-length papers. In order to start the discussion, they have to prepare responses to two or three general questions suggested by the lecturer. Additional optional readings will ...

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Philosophy of International Law

Gregory Lewkowicz

International law plays an ever-increasing role in present-day human intercourse. In this context,

a general knowledge of the intellectual foundations of international law and of the main debates

of philosophy and theory of international law is needed in order to critically understand

contemporary legal issues. The aim of the course is to provide students with such a general

background and to foster students’ ability to deal theoretically with international legal problems.

From pre-modern to contemporary times, the course goes over the major philosophies and

theories of international law and provides students with the concepts required to tackle

contemporary international legal problems.

The course is divided into three sections dealing respectively with pre-modern (I), modern (II)

and contemporary (III) philosophies and theories of international law. Each section is divided

into several chapters dealing with a philosopher or a tradition of thought.

Method

The classes are discussion-based. Each session is divided into a general presentation of the

subject by the lecturer and then a discussion with the audience on the basis of the assigned

readings.

For each session, students have to read one or two article-length papers. In order to start the

discussion, they have to prepare responses to two or three general questions suggested by the

lecturer. Additional optional readings will always be suggested.

Requirements

Students need to be comfortable with English and with academic papers. Some prior knowledge

of international law or legal philosophy is a plus.

Assigned readings

In addition to the session-specific papers, students have to read two books:

Martti Koskenniemi,

The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law (1870-1960)

,

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Richard Tuck,

The Rights of War and Peace. Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to

Kant

, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.

.

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Syllabus

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I.

Introduction : What is philosophy of international law ?

(session 1)

A.

Is there a philosophy of international law ?

1° - Finding a way out of the great divide: National vs. International

2° - Philosophy of international law vs. International political philosophy

3° - Philosophy of international law vs. Theory of international justice

4° - Philosophy of international law vs. Theory of international law

B.

Philosophy of international law and history of international

1° - Ideas do not float freely: contextual approaches to philosophy

2° - Contextual approaches vs. Traditions of thought approaches

3° - Limits of contextual approaches vs. Limits of traditions of thought approaches

4° - Philosophies of international law as foundations of international law

5° - Problems with the periodization of the history of international law: a state of the art

II.

Pre-modern international law

A.

Law of nations, international law : a philosophical history of concepts

(session 2)

1° - The meanings of

Ius gentium

: an introduction to an evolving notion

2° - Law of war : an ancestor of international law ?

i)

Late medieval theories of just war

ii)

The rise of the humanist restatement : Alberico Gentili

iii)

Law of war : a branch of law?

3° -

Ius gentium,

law of war, law of nations and international law: a meaningful history

B.

Pre-modern philosophies of international law

1° - Grotius : natural law and the law of nations (session 3)

2° - From Hobbes to Puffendorf : the evolving conception of the law of nations

3° - Vattel : the rise of a classical theory (session 4)

i)

Natural law and the law of nations: the philosophical basis of the Vattelian theory

ii)

Trade and the law of nations: the problem of neutrality

iii)

Neither reason of state nor strict justice: law of nations and diplomacy

4° - Kant cosmopolitanism (session 5)

i)

Kantian legal theory

ii)

Perpetual peace: what does it mean ?

iii)

Ius cosmopoliticum : the three level of Kantian theory

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The table of content of the course is divided into session in order to give an idea of the time allocated to the

presentation and discussion of the different subjects.

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5° - Hegelian institutionalism (session 6)

i)

Hegel critics of Kant : Hegelian institutionalism

ii)

International law as external state law: the Hegelian conception of international law

6° - The law of nations as the positive law of the European states : F. Von Martens (session 7)

i)

Von Martens critics of Kant

ii)

A bottom-up approach to international law

iii)

International law and history: a peculiar legal philosophy

III.Modern philosophies of international law

1° - The intellectual foundations of the liberal project of international law and the question of

imperialism (session 8)

2° - The German debate over the foundations of international law: Neo-Kantianism vs. Neo-

Hegelianism ?

i)

Jellinek

ii)

Kelsen

iii)

Kauffman

iv)

Schmitt

3° - The solidarist tradition of international law in France (session 9)

i)

Solidarism and international law : the theory of Georges Scelle

ii)

Solidarism: a legal pluralism ?

IV.

Contemporary problems and philosophy of international law

1° - Restatements of Kantian cosmopolitanism (session 10)

i)

Restatements of Kantian cosmopolitanism : Habermas and theories of international justice

ii)

Case-Studies

2° - From the law of war to the rise of a

ius post bellum

: problems of transitional justice (session

11)

i)

Philosophical foundations of the emergence of a ius post bellum

ii)

Case-Studies

3° - The decline of international law: global constitutionalism vs. Global legal pluralism (session

12)

i)

Theory of global constitutionalism

ii)

Global legal pluralism : Teubner and his followers

iii)

Case-Studies

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Bibliography

Boucher, D.,

Political Theories of International Relations

, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Grewe, W.G.,

The Epochs of International Law

, trad. Michael Byers, Berlin/New York, Walter de

Gruyter, 2000.

Haggenmacher, P.,

Grotius et la doctrine de la guerre juste

, Paris, PUF, 1983.

Hont, I.,

Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective

,

Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press, 2005.

Jouannet, A.,

Emer de Vattel et l’émergence doctrinale du droit international classique

, Paris, Pedone, 1998.

Keen, E.,

International political thought: a historical introduction

, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005.

Koskenniemi, M., The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law (1870-

1960), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Macdonald, R. St. J., Johnston, D.M. (eds.),

The Structure and Process of International Law: Essays in

Legal Philosophy, Doctrine and Theory

, The Hague/Boston/Lancaster, Martinus Nijhoff, 1983.

Mattei, J.-M.,

Histoire du droit de la guerre (1700-1819

), Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires

d'Aix-Marseille, 2006.

Nussbaum, A.,

A concise history of the law of nations

, New York, MacMillan, 1954.

Reibstein, E.,

Völkerrecht: eine Geschichte seiner Ideen in Lehre und Praxis

, Freiburg/München, Karl

Alber, 1957-1963, 2 T.

Schmitt, C.,

Le Nomos de la terre dans le droit des gens du jus publicum europaeum

, trad. L. Deroche-

Gurcel et P. Haggenmacher, Paris, PUF, coll. “Leviathan”, 2001.

Tuck, R.,

The Rights of War and Peace. Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

,

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000

Truyol y Serra, A.,

Doctrines sur le fondement du droit des gens

, édition revue, augmentée et mise à jour

par R. Kolb, Paris, Pedone, coll. « Ouvertures internationales », 2007.