Teaching International Law Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context

1. Introduction: Teaching International Law – Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context

Barrie Sander and Jean-Pierre Gauci

Part I: Reflexivity

2. Apathy, Aphasia, and Athambia: Teaching Jamestown and Parodying the History of International Law

Henry Jones and Aoife O’Donoghue

3. Teaching International Criminal Law from a Critical Perspective: Decentering the Law and the Teacher

Philipp Kastner

4. A ‘Global South/Third World’ Perspective on International Law Teaching

Ata R Hindi

5. Teaching and (Un)learning International Law in Qatar

Adamantia Rachovitsa

6. Cultural Interactions with the Pedagogy of International Law: Challenges and Opportunities

Khadeija Elsheikh Mahgoub

7. Humanising the Teaching of International Law

Yusra Suedi

8. Reflections on Teaching ‘Emotion Bites’ in an LLM Course on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Rebecca Sutton

Part II: Tools and Techniques

9. From Podcast to Utopia: Hope and Doubt Behind Knowledge Production in International Legal Academia

Ahmed Raza Memon and Eric Loefflad

10. The Dynamics of Writing and the ‘Good’ International Law Textbook

James Summers

11. Reading Groups on International Law: The Role of Co-Creation in Decolonising the Curriculum

Amrita Mukherjee

12. Decolonising the Teaching of International Humanitarian Law

Karolina Aksamitowska

13. Interdisciplinary Simulations as Innovative Teaching Formats: Experiences from an International Law Classroom

Raphael Oidtmann

14. Teaching Law of Armed Conflict with Virtual Reality

Rigmor Argren

15. Teaching International Humanitarian Law in Crisis

Etienne Kuster, Mariya Nikolova, Samer Mousa, Muhammad Osama Siddique, Vasilka Sancin, and Nelly Kamunde

Part III: Contexts

16. 'Teacher, Don’t Teach Me Nonsense!': A Personal Reflection on Teaching International Law in Nigeria

Udoka Ndidiamaka Owie

17. International Law in the Middle East: A Pedagogy of Critical Absences

Dina Hadad

18. Between History and Pedagogy: Teaching the Philippine National Territorial Imaginary – its ‘Geo-Body’ – After the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award

Romel Regalado Bagares

19. Teaching Public International Law in Brazil and the Unintended Impact of the Bar Exam

Giovanna Frisso

20. Teaching Future Military Commanders International Humanitarian Law

 Jeroen C van den Boogaard

21. Teaching to Wuhan in the Time of Corona

Otto Spijkers and Zhang Fan

22. Teaching International Law through the Prism of Global Events

Priyasha Saksena

Part IV: Specialised Areas

23. The Migration Law Programme: Inspiration for Teaching of International Law

Věra Honusková

24. Teaching and Learning International Climate Change Law

Ling Chen, Travis W Smith, Ruoying Li, and Rhiannon Ogden-Jones

25. The Irrelevance and Coloniality of International Economic Law: How African Teachers Must Drum Them Away

Dunia P Zongwe

26. The Gender of International Human Rights Law? Uncovering Legal Academics’ Views on Teaching Women’s Rights

Lynsey Mitchell

27. Connecting Transnational and International Criminal Law in the Classroom

Nicola Palmer

28. Should Militaries Teach International Humanitarian Law and Ethics Together? Comparing the Attitudes of Educators Internationally

George R Wilkes and Magnus Lindén

29. Subject or Skill? Teaching (and Learning) International Law as an International Relations Scholar

Kyle Reed

Biography

Jean-Pierre Gauci is Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training at BIICL. He holds a PhD in Law from King's College London and a Doctor of Laws and Magister Juris in International Law from the University of Malta. Jean-Pierre is also co-founder and co-director of The People for Change Foundation, a human rights think tank based in Malta; a consultant to international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations; and a lecturer in International Migration law and Ocean governance at the University of Malta. His primary areas of work include: migration and refugee law, human trafficking law and policy, and international labour law.

Barrie Sander is Assistant Professor of International Justice at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, where he teaches at Leiden University College The Hague. His research interests include international criminal law, international human rights law, and the intersection of digital technology and international law. He is the author of Doing Justice to History: Confronting the Past in International Criminal Courts (OUP 2021), based on his PhD thesis, which was awarded the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Alumni Association Prize 2021. He has also published in a wide range of international law journals, including European Journal of International Law, London Review of International Law, and Leiden Journal of International Law, and was awarded the Young Scholar Prize 2018 by International and Comparative Law Quarterly.

"It was Chinua Achebe, echoing an Igbo adage that speaks to the plurality of knowledge systems, who wrote that 'wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it'. This richly insightful book reinforces this saying by showing diverse, creative ways of detaching the pedagogy of law from its Eurocentric gaze. This is indeed an important contribution to the body of knowledge."

Babátúndé Fágbàyíbọ́, Professor, Department of Public Law, University of Pretoria, Faculty of Law

 

"A thought-provoking, diverse compilation of established and emerging voices that call attention to a vital, under-appreciated component of the academic craft. As teachers of international law we will all benefit from the debates and provocations put forward in this volume."

Gleider Hernández, Professor of Public International Law, KU Leuven