Most of us on this team didn’t expect international law to feel so slippery.
It sounded grand and important: treaties, tribunals, the big questions of war and peace. Then came our first problem question. Two neighbouring countries, a disputed stretch of coastline, a fishing boat detained at sea, a UN resolution nobody could agree on, and a single line at the bottom: “Advise the Republic of Zalen.” We read it three times. We still couldn’t tell where the law was written down, who could enforce it, or whether anyone was even bound by it. We remember closing the laptop and wondering if we’d picked the wrong subject.
If international law feels like a game with no rulebook right now, you’re in the right place. We’re not here to lecture you. We’re here to sit beside you, work through it together, and help you find your own way.
International law has a way of making clever people doubt themselves. At home, you can point to a parliament, a court, a police force. Here, the law is spread across treaties, custom, general principles, and judges’ decisions, and you’re expected to know how they fit together and then write about it beautifully, to a word count, by Friday.
These are the things students tell us in their very first message:
If any of that sounds like you, take a breath. It doesn’t mean you’re in the wrong place. It means nobody has shown you the method yet, and the method can be learned.
We’ve all opened a database at 10 p.m. and surfaced two hours later with forty tabs and no answer. We’ll help you avoid that. We’ll show you how to find the right treaty provision, check whether a state has actually ratified it, track down the leading decision, and find the article that gives your argument depth. We’ll walk you through Westlaw, LexisNexis, HeinOnline, and BAILII, plus free official sources like the International Court of Justice website and the UN treaty collection.
This field shifts with the world’s events, so we’ll also help you notice what’s changed recently. Your answer should stand on today’s law, not on something the world has already moved past.
Nobody expects you to carry cases around like phone numbers. Think of them as stories. Two countries quarrelling over fishing waters. A community living on the wrong side of a new boundary line. A state accused of harming its neighbour’s rivers. And a court trying, carefully, to decide where the line should fall. When you can picture the people involved, the case stays with you.
We’ll show you how to read one the way a lawyer does: what happened, what the court was really being asked, what it decided, and why. Then we’ll help you join the dots. Why does custom bind a state that never signed anything? Why would any country accept limits on its own sovereignty? Once the why makes sense, an unexpected exam twist feels far less scary.
Most marks are lost on problem questions not because students don’t know the law, but because they don’t know where to begin. So here is a way in, one gentle step at a time:
It feels clunky the first few times. Then, quietly, it becomes your instinct. We’ll practise with realistic examples until it does.
“Too descriptive” might be the most baffling feedback in law school. Usually it means you’ve told the reader what the law says, but not what you make of it. And international law is packed with questions worth arguing about. Is it “real” law if enforcement is weak? How do we balance sovereignty against human rights? Do powerful states play by the same rules? What should the law say about cyber attacks and climate change? We’ll help you pick a position, treat the other side fairly, draw on academic voices, and end with a conclusion that truly answers the question.
Sharing a draft takes a bit of courage. We know. When you send yours, we’ll read it carefully and tell you what’s working, what isn’t, and why. We’ll look at structure, clarity, accuracy, and referencing in OSCOLA, Bluebook, AGLC, or whatever your department prefers, and we’ll explain our thinking so it carries over to your next piece of work.
If it’s on an international law syllabus, chances are we’ve talked it through with someone already:
Studying in England and Wales, the United States, Australia, India, or Canada? We’re comfortable in all of them, so tell us what your course expects and we’ll shape our help around it.
We want to be upfront with you, because you deserve that.
We won’t write your assignment for you. Not because of a rule we read somewhere, but because we’ve watched what happens to students who go that route: they scrape through one deadline and walk into the next exam feeling just as lost. What we offer is help that stays with you. Our explanations, outlines, and worked examples are study aids, there to build your understanding so that what you hand in is truly yours. Please always follow your university’s academic integrity policies.
We’d much rather help you become someone who can do this on your own. It’s more rewarding for us, and far more useful for you.
First, tell us what’s going on. Send your question, your deadline, and whatever is worrying you. Messy is fine. You don’t have to have it figured out.
Then we make a plan together. Maybe it’s a research walkthrough, maybe a session on untangling a tricky problem question, maybe feedback on a draft.
You learn, practise, and write. We offer clear explanations and examples. You turn them into your own answer.
Finally, we look it over with you. Share your draft and we’ll help you polish it before you submit.
You set the pace. One quick session before a deadline is perfectly fine. So is regular support all semester.
International law can feel like a subject with no edges. But it’s also one of the most meaningful areas of law, because it deals with the questions that cross every border: war and peace, human dignity, shared oceans, a changing climate. Once it clicks, you’ll find yourself reading the news differently, spotting the legal ideas underneath every headline.
Every student who has ever felt lost in it has eventually found their footing. Sometimes all it takes is someone explaining it a little differently, or pointing out the one thing you’ve been missing.
If you’d like that kind of help, we’d love to hear from you. Send us your question, tell us what’s tricky, and we’ll take it from there, together.
Reach out today, and let’s turn “I don’t get this” into “Oh, I get it now.”
No. We’ll help you research, plan, understand, and improve, but what you submit should be yours.
Often not. Reach out as soon as you can and we’ll be honest about what’s realistic.
Gladly. We can work through practice questions, build a revision plan, and share ways to stay calm and organised under pressure.
Tell us what you’re studying. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.
Yes. Your work and your details are treated with care and respect.
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