You will write and submit no later than 08:00 March 11, via Blackboard, a Turnitin assignment essay on a current topic of international law that I shall announce on or about 15 February. The essay shall be no more than 1,200 words (any excess shall disqualify and fail), Times New Roman, 12pts, single line spaced, normal margins in extension [including footnotes and sources]. In this essay you MUST allude to hard and soft law, including applicable treaties, declarations or resolutions, and scholarship. Sources, explanations, and comments shall be placed in footnotes. Proper citation use shall be part of the evaluation. Use Bluebook rules. Plagiarism and use of AI shall disqualify or fail. Plagiarism and AI use is not exclusively defined by Turnitin.
Paraphrasing. When you paraphrase you MUST also use proper citation and indicate the source from where you received inspiration for your general ideas.