With Program Director Approval
School of Law

Course Credits: 2-3


Catalog Description

Provides students with a broad historical and philosophical introduction to international law.
Addresses changing conceptions of sovereignty between 1492 and World War II, I the contexts of the
Spanish conquest of the Americas, the international legality of the slave trade, relations between the Ottoman Empire and the "Great Powers", the Chinese opium wars and the rise of modern
international institutions.


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