A: Computer Lab

1. Go to the computer lab and do a search about the Responsibility to Protect in the Outcome Document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in September 2005. Write a short –one or two paragraphs- summary of the main issue of the document.
2. Do you think the responsibility to protect is binding? Why? Why not?
3. Once you are done, ask the T.A. for your new task.

B.

1. Go to the Law Library and get the book International Law Chiefly as Interpreted in Canada (6^th edition) and read under Sovereignty and Equality, the authors’ idea on the duty not to intervene. Copy the central idea. If this book is not in the library or another team is using it, you can read the duty not to intervene in domestic affairs from any other book on International Law.
2. Go back to the computer lab and ask the T.A. for the third task

C.

1. Go to my office and solve the case using only one book on the desk. If you are the last team, you will not have a choice of books. There will be only one book left.
2. Case: The Paraguayan government, made up of Spanish descendants, has initiated an ethnic cleansing aimed at the Aymara and Quechuan populations. The United Nations Security Council discussed a proposal made by France to intervene under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. The US government, which has recently signed a very lucrative gas agreement with the Paraguayan government, vetoed the proposal. France wants to intervene. It sends troops to Paraguay, and it requests the support of the Canadian government. France specifically asks Canada to send military troops to Paraguay to defeat the government and stop the ethnic cleansing. You have to give advice to the Canadian government. What is your opinion on the legality of the French intervention?