Teaching International Law

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.

• 1. Introduction: Teaching International Law - Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in ContextPart I: Reflexivity2. Apathy, Aphasia & Athambia: Teaching Jamestown and Parodying the History of International Law3. Teaching International Criminal Law from a Critical Perspective: Decentering the Law and the Teacher4. A ‘Global South/Third World’ Perspective on International Law Teaching5. Teaching and (Un)learning International Law in Qatar6. Cultural Interactions with the Pedagogy of International Law: Challenges and Opportunities7. Humanising the Teaching of International Law8. Reflections on Teaching ‘Emotion Bites’ in an LLM Course on Human Rights and Conflict ResolutionPart II: Tools and Techniques9. From Podcast to Utopia: Hope and Doubt Behind Knowledge Production in International Legal Academia10. The Dynamics of Writing and the ‘Good’ International Law Textbook11. Reading Groups on International Law: The Role of Co-Creation in Decolonising the Curriculum12. Decolonising the Teaching of International Humanitarian Law13. Interdisciplinary Simulations as Innovative Teaching Formats – Experiences from an International Law Classroom14. Teaching Law of Armed Conflict with Virtual Reality15. Teaching International Humanitarian Law in CrisisPart III: Contexts16. “Teacher, Don’t Teach Me Nonsense!”: A Personal Reflection on Teaching International Law in Nigeria17. International Law in the Middle East: A Pedagogy of Critical Absences18. Between History and Pedagogy: Teaching the Philippine National Territorial Imaginary – its ‘Geo-Body’ – After the 2016 South China Sea Arbitral Award19. Teaching Public International Law in Brazil and the Unintended Impact of the Bar Exam20. Teaching Future Military Commanders International Humanitarian Law21. Teaching to Wuhan in the Time of Corona22. Teaching International Law through the Prism of Global EventsPart IV: Specialised Areas23. The Migration Law Programme: Inspiration for Teaching of International Law24. Teaching and Learning International Climate Change Law25. The Irrelevance and Coloniality of International Economic Law: How African Teachers Must Drum Them Away26. The Gender of International Human Rights Law? Uncovering Legal Academics’ Views on Teaching Women’s Rights27. Connecting Transnational and International Criminal Law in the Classroom28. Should Militaries Teach International Humanitarian Law and Ethics Together? Comparing the Attitudes of Educators Internationally29. Subject or Skill? Teaching (and Learning) International Law as an International Relations Scholar