POLI 4041 Lecture : Poli 4041 Notes
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Notes from first class: sovereignty, municipal law vs. international law, widely discredited, even by political scientists, the politics of it, u. s. and russia violate it, rochester"s theory of peril and promise. 8/22/12: read case of hamden v. rumsfeld, p. 15 (2006); u. s. supreme. Il is its own distinct and separate legal system: 2. ) Il is all theory and no practice: 3. ) Il is not real law- there is no enforcement or hierarchy, it is primitive: 4. ) Il is what the u. s. says it is- we are the sole surviving superpower, when the u. s> says something, the world"s ears are open, but not everything u. s. says is in line with il, but. Such a world would involve the fact that countries and their boundaries would no longer be respected. 9/5/12: prometheus case, significant, starting point for international law, title: owners of osaka kaisha (japan) vs. owners of. Prometheus (norway) (1906: case settled by (matter of) arbitration in the supreme.
