The primary objective of Governance 440/Global Studies 440: Global Governance and Law is to introduce students to the interdisciplinary study of governance and law and, in particular, International Law and Global Governance. When you have completed this course you should be able to achieve the following objectives.

  1. Discuss the significance of modern forms of state and global governance
  2. Analyze the challenges to the sovereign state system and the possibilities of legal governance in globalization
  3. Describe and illustrate the many ways that globalization is manifested
  4. Assess the significance of global social movements in globalization
  5. Analyze contributions that social movements make to food, environmental, military, and human rights security globally
  6. Evaluate the different kinds of democracy that global social movements propose
  7. Discuss the interrelationship of the environment, gender, human rights, and social and economic well-being
  8. Explain the politics of legal systems, whether global or domestic
  9. Read and write with critical interpretation
  10. Examine how theories inform policy and legal decisions