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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | PEACH300A001 |
Course Title | Ethics of Temporality: Indigenous Land Claims, Child Soldiers, International Tribunals |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Peace, Justice and Human Rights |
Instructor | Stauffer,Jill |
Times and Days | M 01:30pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | GST102 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1871 This seminar will pose questions of how law and time intersect, focusing on cases where changing our understanding of time might help law do better, or changing our idea of law might help us understand what is at stake in different stories about time. Cases we’ll consider include: how international law judges child soldiers (which involves a discourse on time, aging and responsibility); the length of time it takes for an international trial to conclude (which involves both a long span of years and a hope that what gets adjudicated in the present moment redresses a past for the sake of a better future); how North American courts hear or fail to hear indigenous oral history as evidence in land claims cases (here we encounter traditions with very different ideas of what it means for time to pass trying to communicate about what happened in the past and how that should be judged in the present moment). Students may focus their research work on these cases or on other areas of their choice, and there will be space in the syllabus to tailor some class readings to student interests. Readings will come from philosophy, political theory, legal theory, legal trial transcripts, video of trials in progress, anthropology, literature, documentary films, and various other sources.; Prerequisite(s): one PEAC course. ; Enrollment limit: 15; Lottery Preference(s): PEAC concentrators, then seniors and juniors, then everyone else Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World (; Hav: HU, B) |
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