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Jordan Paust
International Law
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contributed International Law Outline added 01-25-2010
The
following review was submitted December 2012:
First- Paust is very knowledgeable in this area and has his own
opinions of important topics which you’ll read in the case book. He is
very approachable in office hours and will make the class work for you if you
take the initiative to go see him. Most of the outlines online are terrible, I
ended up re-outlining everything from the beginning instead and making a
checklist of topics to hit and in what order to hit them.
Do Not Forget
your Document Supplement. Buy it/rent it, don’t
think the course/class works without it because it makes the entire course make
sense.
Second- The
best way to definitely get an A in this class is to
1
Do the reading- leave room in your case briefs/reading outlines for his
answers to the notes after the case.
2
Outline
daily- from day 1:
a
Big
takeaways/ main point of each lecture
3
Focus
on:
a
Self-Executable
v. Non-Self Executable treaties
b
Causes
of Action for Victims (Aliens v.
c
Jurisdiction
over criminals
d
Immunity
for Foreign Sovereigns
e
What
current event is he interested in? It will probably show up in your exam
Third- the Exam- This is an open
book exam- but if you pay attention in class and do the above prep, instead of
surfing the web, gaming, watching hulu/netflix, or
sleeping like all of your classmates, you probably do not need to worry too
much because 95 points of the test come from the True/False section. The
True/False section is incredibly fair. 85 points come from two essays. Typically the T/F takes 1.5 hours, and then
1.5 hours for the essay (20min/70min split).
Last but not
least- this is a great study with a partner class.