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COURSE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2003 COURSE

• (A) All students must commit to work collaboratively in research teams of two or three people to develop and publish both individual and team research reports on a  Web site.  When individual cases of failure to live up to group commitments are reported, examined, and documented, the entire group portion of the final grade for the course (see B2, below) will be forfeit by that individual.
  

• (B1) All students must learn how to use modern information technology, including Web search engines and other Internet resources, as devices for conducting research, for writing, and for publishing the results of an Individual Assignment.  The Web work supplements but does not replace reading in the course text book and Shields Library, as assigned and appropriate.  The Individual Assignment (course requirement B1, equal to 20% of the final grade for the course) is based on reading, the taking of class notes, and the writing of an analytical essay using international legal materials.
  

• (B2) In addition, students must complete research team work on four inter-related projects (requirement B2, 60%).  This is the part of the course where each research team treats in depth an international legal and policy issue that has an associated treaty regime and related international legal processes and institutions.
  

• (B3) There will be a take home final examination (requirement B3, 20%). The final examination is based on reading, the taking of class notes, and the writing of analytical essays using legal materials.
  

• (C) All individual and team assignments must be completed to earn a passing grade.
  

Due Dates: See the Table of Deadlines on the Course in Detail page of this Web.  The link to it is on the left.  Failure to complete and publish work by the assigned deadline will result in a zero grade.