Approaching a legal essay question (1 Viewer)

[bobcarter]

I'm having trouble approaching a legal essay question. Like with my points, I don't know how specific I can be. E.g. 2012 World Order question (B): "To what extent does international law promote and maintain world order?". I'm thinking of mentioning these as my points, but I'm worried that it's too specific and I'd get marked down for it:
1. NPT 1968
2. Establishment of the ICC
3. Geneva Conventions

Please help me, I'm having nervous breakdowns and I am stressing a lot over approaching essays .

 

[titaniumwithin]

All 3 examples are fine just as long they don't take up the whole paragraph since the question is addressing "international law"

 

[kpopism]

okay this is starting to freak me out a bit, i wouldnt know what to write about

All 3 examples are fine just as long they don't take up the whole paragraph since the question is addressing "international law"

what would you do? would something like INTERPOL be okay to use as an example?

 

[bobcarter]

okay this is starting to freak me out a bit, i wouldnt know what to write about



what would you do? would something like INTERPOL be okay to use as an example?

That wouldn't be a very good point, limited cases/articles on it...

 

[kpopism]

That wouldn't be a very good point, limited cases/articles on it...

hm okayyyy
then i would go with something like peacekeeping and multilateralism? what about the UN?
am i at least nearly there? hahaha ugh. i suck.

 

[ncoul]

Get down to the fundamentals guys.

- State Sovereignty - advantages/limitations; enshrined principle under UN Charter
- Treaties - NPT and Geneva protocols
- R2P - reconciliation of state sovereingty vs. jus cogens
- UNSC Peacekeeping - Rwanda, Darfur, Sierra Leone
- UNSC Sanctions - Haphazard responses (Libya, recent Syrian sanctions, failures with NK and Iran) - P5 mandate; need for further reforms
- ICC
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Special Court for Sierra Leone
- (Something original - drone technology etc.)