LAW4199 International Laws of Armed Conflict

Workload:
Two 1.5 hour lectures per week + quite a heavy reading load, but not particularly difficult readings

Prescribed Prerequisites/Recommended Prerequisites:
Any prior international law/human rights subject would be useful.

Assessments:
Optional 2000 word assignment + 2 hour exam OR 100% 2.5 hour exam.

Recorded Lectures:
Not in Semester 2, 2014. Possibly recorded now.

Past exams available:
One past exam in Semester 2, 2014. Possibly more now.

Textbook recommended?
Yes it was a great summary of each week and had some really great information in it.

Comments:
Semester 2, 2014
 * This was a great subject, the content we learnt had a global perspective and was very interesting and taught very well.
 * There are a lot of changes occurring in this area (as most of the laws were written after the World Wars and clearly the nature of war has changed), and the subject was quite future focused.
 * A challenge was that some of the concepts were a bit vague (it is international law after all!)
 * The subject does actually teach practical skills, as you are learning the law and how it would be applied to various armed conflict situations - which are a reality sadly.
 * Not much structure is given in terms of how to do the exam, and the power points did not contain much information (so listen up!) However, it was not difficult to make comprehensive notes and achieve a good result if you use the reading guide, text book and the journal articles to fill in the gaps.
 * This unit is not very content heavy so it could be undertaken with a full course load.