International Law and Relations

This subject will place international law in the context of the practice of international relations and, in particular, international diplomacy. The subject will introduce students to leading accounts of international law’s role in global political life while showing, too, how the international legal order intersects with - and provides a normative architecture for – the practice of international diplomacy. The course will be taught by Gerry Simpson, Chair of International Law at the London School of Economics, and Richard Rowe, former senior officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and currently an Honorary Professor in the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy.