Teaching
For more than twenty years, Professor Moore also served as the Director of the Graduate Law Program at Virginia, during which time he oversaw the training and advanced scholarship of hundreds of attorneys and legal scholars from the United States and around the world. Many of his former students have gone on to hold senior positions in government or to academic prominence. He continues to supervise graduate work on a regular basis. Following is additional information regarding Professor Moore's teaching schedule for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
Fall 2007 Teaching Schedule |
War and Peace: New Thinking about the Causes of War & War Avoidance Whatever the focus of your professional career, one issue that ought to be of considerable interest to all citizens is the avoidance of war. This interdisciplinary seminar will explore some of the latest thinking about the causes of international armed conflict and the ways in which future wars might be avoided and peace preserved. This seminar builds upon work the instructors began more than a decade ago as, respectively, the first Chairman of the Board and President of the congressionally-established U.S. Institute of Peace. Recent studies by Yale Professors Donald Kagan (History) and Bruce Russett (Political Science), and by University of Hawaii Political Science Professor Rudy Rummel, will be examined, along with a number of traditional intellectual approaches ranging from international law, arms control, and world federalism, to deterrence theory. Case studies of past wars will be examined to test competing theories, and the class will examine Professor Moore's recent book, Solving the War Puzzle. Co-taught by Professors Moore and Turner. Written requirement: A substantial research paper. Active class participation expected. *** International Law This course is the basic offering in the international legal studies area, a field in which the University of Virginia has been ranked among the nation's top law schools. It provides an overview of a diverse range of problems arising in private and governmental practice that are affected by the provisions and principles of international law. The course begins by exploring the nature and sources of international law, foreign relations law of the United States, and treaties and international agreements. It then moves to an examination of the use of force: international law in conflict settings, the general principles of the structure of peaceful relations, and the law of the sea. It presents background and detailed studies of human rights and the rule of law, the environment and common areas, international trade economic issues, and peaceful settlement of disputes, and wraps up with a discussion of newer challenges, globalization, and efforts to build a more stable world order. *** Rule of Law: Controlling Government This seminar explores the theory and cost of government failure and its relationship to contemporary movements for constitutional and legal reform. The seminar reviews the growing body of information about government failure internationally and domestically; examines theoretical approaches to explaining such failure, including public choice theory; and then examines the implications for the rule of law and constitutional and legal reform as applied to controlling government. Each session seeks to develop the meaning and importance of the rule of law, and to involve the students in development of a legal framework for controlling government, empowering the individual, and celebrating human freedom. Case studies reviewed this year will include social security reform, campaign finance reform, and the term limits movement. Written requirement: A substantial research paper. Active class participation expected. *** Anti-terrorism, Law, and the Role of Intelligence This seminar will consider the phenomenon of terrorism as practiced by the perpetrators of the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001 (9/11). It will explore the various motivations for the attacks- religious, political and societal- and the position of the attackers as non-state actors. It will look at the posture of the U.S. Intelligence Community before the attacks and after, and examine the inadequacies, mistakes, lack of coordination and preparedness that beset the CIA and FBI especially, as they confront a potential age of relentless suicidal terror. We shall focus on the particular challenge posed by suicidal terror to democratic societies based on the rule of law. We shall look at the reviews of 9/11 and Iraqi WMD compiled by two Congressional bodies, two outside blue ribbon commissions, and a Special Advisor to the DCI, and their recommendations to improve America’s intelligence and law enforcement defenses to the threat of ongoing non-state suicidal terror. We shall finally examine the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Written requirement: A substantial research paper. Active class participation expected. *** National Security Law Following the 9/11 attack in 2001, one of the fastest growing areas of legal inquiry has been national security law. This course, taught by the principal founder of the field, is a comprehensive introduction, blending relevant international and national law. It begins with an overview of modern theory about the causes of war including the “democratic peace”, “deterrence,” and “incentive theory”. The course also examines the historical development of the international law of conflict management as well as several case studies including the Indochina War, the "secret war" in Central America, the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan (the war on terror), and the Iraq War. It examines human rights for contexts of violence, that is, the norms concerning the conduct of hostilities, i.e. jus in bello, providing an overview of the protection of non-combatants and procedures for implementation and enforcement. It looks at war crimes and the Nuremberg principles, and the new International Criminal Court as well as the Yugoslav and Rwanda tribunals. It briefly reviews American Security Doctrine, then turns to the general issues of strategic stability and arms control, examining nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their effects, and arms control agreements. It examines the national institutional framework for the control of national security, including the authority of Congress and the president to make national security decisions, the war powers and constitutional issues in the debate on interpretation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The course then examines the national security process including the national command structure, and looks at secrecy, access to information, and the classification system. It reviews intelligence and counterintelligence law, and ends with a review of individual rights and accountability as they interface with national security. |
January Term (Spring 2008) Teaching Schedule |
Ethical Issues in Foreign Policy This class will explore ethical issues in foreign policy. The first session will provide an overview of “Ethical Thinking” generally. The next four sessions will explore the ethical implications of four specific foreign affairs decisions and issues. These will include President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, decisions to “stress” detainees for intelligence in the war on terror, the decision to intervene militarily in Iraq in March 2003, and decisions regarding the response of the international community to the crisis in Rwanda in 1994. Meets January 14-18. |
Spring 2008 Teaching Schedule |
| Oceans Law and Policy Professor John Norton Moore University of Virginia School of Law This course is taught by the former U.S. Ambassador and Chairman of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea, which coordinated United States oceans policy during the critical early negotiations leading to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. The course begins by examining the goals of oceans policy, outlining both community and United States' interests; providing several frameworks for analysis; then defining oceans claims and their political, economic, and strategic context. After a brief introduction to oceanography, the course moves into a detailed discussion of issues in international oceans policy, including the Law of the Sea and U.S. policy, the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, sources of current oceans law, navigation and communication, the economic zone, straddling stocks and highly migratory species, the continental margin, protection of the marine environment, marine scientific research, boundary disputes and dispute settlement, deep seabed mining, national security and international incidents, and polar policy. This section ends with an examination of several case studies on illegal oceans claims and strategies for their control. In its final section, the course explores issues in national oceans policy, focusing on the Navy, Merchant Marine development, fisheries management and aquaculture, continental shelf development, coastal zone management, and organization of the national oceans policy process and the future of oceans policy. *** National Security Law One of the fastest growing areas of legal inquiry is national security law, which began at Virginia with this course more than two decades ago and has since been taught at approximately half of the nation's accredited law schools. This course, taught by the principal founder of the field, is a comprehensive introduction, blending relevant international and national law. It defines national security and presents information about the causes of war and traditional approaches to preventing war, including information about the "democratic peace" and other newer approaches. The course examines the historical development of the international law of conflict management. It then takes up institutional modes of conflict management, including the United Nations system and the role of the Security Council. Addressing the lawfulness of using force in international relations, the course discusses the prohibition of war as an instrument of national policy, the Rio Treaty and the revised charter of the Organization of American States, and low-intensity conflict, intervention, anticipatory defense, and other continuing problems. It then examines several case studies of specific national security issues, including the Indochina War, the "secret war" in Central America, the Gulf War, and Kosovo, as well as case studies in United Nations peacekeeping and peace enforcement (including the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Haiti, and Rwanda). It examines human rights for contexts of violence, that is, the norms concerning the conduct of hostilities, providing an overview of the protection of non-combatants and procedures for implementation and enforcement. It looks at war crimes and the Nuremberg principles, and the new international criminal court as well as the Yugoslav and Rwanda tribunals. It briefly reviews American Security Doctrine, then turns to the general issues of strategic stability and arms control, examining nuclear weapons and their effects, and general arms control negotiations. It briefly addresses the security aspects of oceans law, then examines in detail the national institutional framework for the control of national security, including the authority of Congress and the president to make national security decisions, and the war powers and constitutional issues in the debate on interpretation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. The course then examines the national security process including the national command structure, and looks at secrecy, access to information, and the classification system. It reviews intelligence and counterintelligence law, and ends with a review of individual rights and accountability as they interface with national security. *** WAR AND PEACE Whatever the focus of your professional career, one issue that ought to be of considerable interest to all citizens is the avoidance of war. This interdisciplinary seminar will explore some of the latest thinking about the causes of international armed conflict and the ways in which future wars might be avoided and peace preserved. This seminar builds upon work the instructors began more than a decade ago as, respectively, the first Chairman of the Board and President of the congressionally-established U.S. Institute of Peace. Recent studies by Yale Professors Donald Kagan (History) and Bruce Russett (Political Science), and by University of Hawaii Political Science Professor Rudy Rummel, will be examined, along with a number of traditional intellectual approaches ranging from international law, arms control, and world federalism, to deterrence theory. Case studies of past wars will be examined to test competing theories. |
Teaching is an integral part of the Center's mission. Both Director John Norton Moore (Walter L. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law) and Associate Director Myron H. Nordquist (former Stockton Chair of International Law at the Naval War College) have had distinguished teaching careers. Professor Moore regularly teaches his course on "Oceans Law and Policy" at the University of Virginia School of Law and other law schools. Professor Moore also teaches courses on international law, national security law, ethical issues in foreign policy, and seminars on the rule of law and issues relating to war and peace; in past years he has taught courses on the Constitution and foreign affairs powers, and the goals of U.S. foreign policy. 
Both Professor Moore and Professor Nordquist frequently teach at the annual Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law. Professor Nordquist was a tenured professor at the United States Air Force Academy and he continues to lecture at various fora on both national security law and law of the sea topics. In 2007, for example, Professor Nordquist taught a law enforcement at sea course at the Marco Polo Academy at Xiamen University Law School in China.