Professor Johns makes international law (a topic that could otherwise be sort of boring/irrelevant) pretty interesting- her lectures are engaging and extremely well organized. There are weekly quizzes in section that are super easy, just set aside 20 minutes or so to read the cases and you'll be fine as the questions are simple fact based questions. Her midterm was a bit harder than I expected actually, but she does curve it generously and I really should have just studied more. The tests are worth most of your grade (70%) however given COVID-19 our final was changed into a set of essay questions that were take-home. The take-home final took a significant amount of time and although I respected her as being fair during the rest of the time I took the class I think she could have been a little more understanding.

While this class is manageable in workload, it is clear Professor Johns is the kind of teacher that does not want her students to succeed. The content of the class is interesting and relevant, yet Johns teaches it in the most frustrating way possible. Although her exam questions aren’t inherently difficult, she instructs TAs to grade them with such extreme specificity that anything except for textbook definitions are penalized. This led to the midterm class average being a D, which is absurd for a class with mostly straightforward content. Not only that, but Johns makes basic resources entirely inaccessible. She refuses to posts lecture slides online and doesn’t even provide them to the TAs, leaving both students and TAs totally lost. This class is doable if you keep up with the reading and attend every single lecture, but Johns’ grading and teaching styles make a very interesting class unnecessarily demoralizing.

This class definitely wasn't the easiest poli sci class I've taken at ucla. You should go into this class with the mindset that it will be hard and that you will need to put in the work, especially for the exams. The exams are pretty tough. The questions are very straightforward but you will need to memorize a lot of the key terms from the glossary as well as the general concepts throughout the course. You won't be able to manage unless you have truly studied. The studying does pay off though, because there are not really any trick questions.
The content of the course is very interesting, and you get a clear overview of what international law truly is and it is very practical information to take into your daily life when listening to the news. We don't really get into the details of different treaties, but enough to have a general overview.
There is a weekly discussion in which there will be a 3/4 question quiz based on the case study assigned for that week. The case study closely ties into the concepts discussed in class and the questions on the quiz are very straightforward as well. Such as, name of the treaty, actors involved, what crimes did they commit, etc. Your participation in the discussion and your quiz scores will really help you if you are not as good of a test taker. It is a combined 30% of your grade, and the exams a total of 70%.
This class is not tricky in any way, you will simply need to put the work in. I highly recommend.