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IU McKinney is offering two international law-focused online courses during Spring 2015.

Comparative and International Competition Law is a new offering in the expanding online catalog at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The course offers students the chance to study antitrust as it is enforced in other jurisdictions and as a matter of international cooperative arrangements. Professor Max Huffman teaches the course to students at IU McKinney as well as to 15 students joining the class from schools across the country and overseas. The course was carefully designed with help and funding from Indiana University’s online initiative, replicating the feeling of a seminar course in which students write course papers. Content is delivered asynchronously and Professor Huffman serves up discussion boards, one-on-one virtual meetings, and drafting and peer review exercises designed to teach new content as well as to guide students through the paper-drafting process. The result is a high level of interactivity and engagement combined with the convenience of studying on students’ own schedules and from geographic locales as remote as Arizona, Florida, and the Netherlands.

Professor Yvonne Dutton is teaching International Criminal Law online for the first time this semester. The course introduces students to the institutions and processes used to punish individuals alleged to have committed crimes that constitute some of the most serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law. It considers international criminal law in its broader political context and as one response to war and mass atrocities. The course is offered to students at IU McKinney as well as to 15 students joining the class from schools across the country. The course was carefully designed with help and funding from Indiana University¹s online initiative, replicating the feeling of a seminar course. Content is delivered asynchronously, but each week students have opportunities to participate in the course through discussion boards, analytical papers, and oral and written group assignments which they share through an online platform.