Universität Wien

030393 SE Seminar of Legal History - Austrian History of International Law (2023W)

The k. u. k. Monarchy and the First Republic

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

E-Mail mit kurzem Motivationsschreiben an nicole.schnalzer@univie.ac.at
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Blocktermin in in Telč (Tschechien): Montag, 15. - Mittwoch, 17.01.2024.

Tuesday 10.10. 08:30 - 10:00 Seminarraum SEM43 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 4.OG (Kickoff Class)
Tuesday 07.11. 09:00 - 10:30 Seminarraum SEM52 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum 5.OG
Thursday 14.12. 09:00 - 10:30 Hörsaal U11 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In just a few years, foreign policy and international law underwent fundamental changes between the imperial and royal monarchies. Monarchy and the First Republic, foreign policy and international law underwent fundamental changes. This applies both to the perception of international law and to the hopes and expectations placed in it. This legal history seminar aims to trace changes and continuities, among other things. It will look at legal doctrine, the history of ideas and state practice. The focus will be on actors, concepts, events and institutions of importance in international law and foreign policy in those decades around and after 1900. Interested students will also have the opportunity to work with original archive material. The seminar will take place as a block seminar in Telč (Czech Republic) from Monday, January 15 to Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jaromír Tauchen, LL.M from the University of Brno.

The seminar will take place as a block seminar on from 15.01. - 17.01.2024 in Telč (Czech Republic). Details about the seminar program and the block date will be announced during the preliminary meeting on Tuesday, 10.10.2023.

The aim is to work out specific questions, the results will be presented in the block sessions from 15.01-17.01.2024. A seminar paper will form the conclusion.

Assessment and permitted materials

You will be graded based upon a seminar paper (25–30 pages, 50,000 characters, including footnotes and spaces), your oral participation and presentation of a topic during the block seminar. During this session, the results of your own work should be presented and put up for discussion with a thesis paper (approx. 7 pages) and, if necessary, an excerpt from the source. The final version of your seminar paper must be submitted digitally as Word-format to nicole.schnalzer@univie.ac.at and in paper (2x).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Literatur zum Einstieg:

Miloš Vec, Miloš: From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919, in: Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters (Hg.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, Oxford 2012, 654-678.
Spitra, Sebastian M. „After the Great War: International Law in Austria’s First Republic, 1918–Mid 1920s“. Clio@Themis 18 (2020), 1-22.
Karl-Heinz Ziegler, Völkerrechtsgeschichte. Ein Studienbuch, 2. Auflage München 2007, 9. Kapitel: Englisches Zeitalter (1815-1914), und 10. Kapitel: Die Epoche der beiden Weltkriege (1914-1945), 169-211.
Sebastian Spitra, After the Great War: International Law in Austria’s First Republic, 1918–Mid 1920s, in: Clio@Themis 18 (2020), 1–22.

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