Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required Reading List and pages + handouts:

BOULDEN, JANE and THOMAS G. WEISS (eds.), Terrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004 (ca. 200 pp).

WILKENSON, PAUL. Terrorism Versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response, London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2000. Pp. 78-94, 94-121, 174-186 & 218-234 [72 pp.] Compendium of Readings. Oslo: Unipub (2005). [Available at UiO Bookstore in late January 2005]

DIMITRIJEVIC, VOJIN. “Terrorism and Human Rights After 2001.” In Morten Bergsmo (ed.), Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden: Essays in Honour of Asbj?rn Eide, Leiden: Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003. Pp. 603-620. [18 pp.]

CASSESE, ANTONIO. “Terrorism is also Disrupting some Crucial Legal Categories of International Law.” [9 pp.] http://www.ejil.org/forum_WTC

GROTE, RAINER. “Between Crime Prevention and the Laws of War: Are the Traditional Categories of International Law Adequate for Assessing the Use of Force against International Terrorism.” [37 pp.] http://edoc.mpil.de/conference-on-terrorism/index.cfm

SOFAER, ABRAHAM D. Responses to Terrorism: Targeted Killing is a Necessary Option. 26 March 2004. [2 pp.]

STAHN, CARSTEN. “Security Council Resolutions 1368 (2001) and 1373 (2001): What They Say and What they Do Not Say.” [16 pp.] http://www.ejil.org/forum_WTC

ULFSTEIN, GEIR. “Terrorism and the Use of Force.” In Security Dialogue, Vol 34, No. 2 (June 2003). Pp 153-168. [10 pp.]

CASSESSE, ANTONIO.” “Other International Legal Subjects.” In Cassesse, International Law, Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 66-85. [19 pp.]

GASSER, HANS-PETER. Acts of Terror, “Terrorism” and International Humanitarian Law. International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 84, No. 847, September 2002. Pp. 547-570. [24 pp.]

KRIEGER, HEIKE. “Limitations on Privacy, Freedom of Press, Opinion and Assembly as a Means of Fighting Terrorism.” In Walter, C., et. al. (eds.), Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty?, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. Pp. 50-63. [13 pp.]

GREVE, HANNE SOPHIE. “Acts of Terrorism and Crimes Within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.” In Morten Bergsmo (ed.), Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden: Essays in Honour of Asbj?rn Eide. Leiden: Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003. Pp. 75-110. [36 pp.]

Reference Texts:Allowed to be used during the examination so long as it contains no substantive notes (cross references only).

Compendium of Cases. Oslo: Unipub (2005). [Available at UiO Bookstore in late January 2005]

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Anti-terrorism Measures, Security and Human Rights: Development in Europe, Central Asia and North America in the Aftermath of September 11. Vienna, April 2003. [Cases, 205 pp.]

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Digest of Jurisprudence of the UN and Regional Organizations on the Protection of Human Rights While Countering Terrorism. 2003. [Cases, 108 pp.]

BROWNLIE, IAN and GUY S.GOODWIN-GILL, eds., Basic Documents on Human Rights, 4th ed., Oxford: University Press, 2002.

*Recommended Reading List:

WALTER, C., et. al. (eds.), Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty?, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004. (Remaining chapters not on reading list.)

WILKINSON, PAUL. Terrorism versus Democracy. The Liberal State Response. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. (Remaining chapters not on reading list.) Declarations, Statements and Reports Available Online:

Commission of the European Communities. Council Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism. 19 September 2001.

Council of Europe. Guidelines on Human Rights and the Fight Against Terrorism. Council of Europe Publishing, 2002.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Report on Terrorism and Human Rights. 2003.

International Commission of Jurists. The Berlin Declaration on Upholding Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Combating Terrorism. Adopted 28 August 2004.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Charter on Preventing and Combating Terrorism.

NGO Statement on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism. UN Doc. E/CN.4/2004/NGO/198, 11 March 2004.

UN Commission on Human Rights. Resolution 2003/68 on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism.

UN Human Rights Committee. General Comment 29 on States of Emergency (Article 4). UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.11 (2001).

UN Sub-commission on the Protection of Human Rights. Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation of Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. UN Doc. E/CN.4/1985/4 (1985).

United States Congress. Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq. 2 October 2002. [4 pp.]

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