1. Required Reading
?Articles and extraits from books are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law faculty (Domus Nova building).
- S. James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (2nd edition), Oxford University Press 2004, Introduction & Ch 1, pp 3-48 (45 pp).
- Brian Barry: Liberal States and Illiberal Religions” in Culture and Equality, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2001: 155-193 (38 pp).
- Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford 2009, ch 1, pp 1-13 & 5, pp 96-127 (38 pp).
- Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, ‘Introduction’ in Culture and rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press 2001, ch 1, pp 1-26 (25 pp).
- Jack Donnelly, ‘The relative universality of Human Rights’, Human Rights Quarterly 29, 2007, pp 281-306 (25 pp).
- Jack Donnelly, ‘Both universal and relative. A reply to Goodhart’, Human Rights Quarterly 30, 2008, pp 194-204 (20 pp).
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism (2nd edition), Pluto Press, 2002, ch 7-8, pp 121-161 ( 40 pp).
- Yash Ghai, Autonomy and Ethnicity. Negotiating Competing Claims in Multiethnic States, Cambridge 2000, ch1: ‘Ethnicity and Autonomy’, pp 1-26 (25 pp).
- Michael Goodhart, ‘Neither relative nor universal. A response to Donnelly’, Human Rights Quarterly 30, 2008, pp 183-193 (10 pp).
- Todd Landman, Studying Human Rights, Routledge 2006, ch 1-5, pp 8-92 & 8, pp 126-139 (106 pp).
- Tore Lindholm, ‘Philosophical and Religious Justifications of Freedom of Religion or Belief’ in Tore Lindholm, W. Cole Durham, Jr. & Bahia G. Tahzib-Lie (eds.) Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2004, pp 19-61 (42 pp).
- James Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights, Blackwell Publishers, 2007, pp 7-189 (182 pp).
- Martha C. Nussbaum: “The Role of Religion” in Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000: 167-240 (73 pp).
- Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink (eds), The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change, Cambridge 1999, ch 1-2, pp 1-77 & 8, 234-278 (123 pp).
- Henry Shue, Basic Rights. Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy, Princeton 1996, ch 1-2, pp 13-64 (51 pp).
Total: 843 pp.
2. Recommended (suggested) Reading:
- B?rd A Andreassen, “Political Science, Human Rights and the right to Food Discourse” in Wenche Barth Eide & Uwe Kracht (eds.), Food and human Rights in Development. Evolving Issuse and Emerging Applications, Intersentia 2007, pp 81-106. (23 pp)
- B?rd A Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right. Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions, Intersentia 2010 (2nd edition).
- Jane F. Collier, ‘Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs’, June Starr and Mark Goodale (eds), Practicing Ethnography in Law, Palgrave Macmillan 2002, ch 4, pp 72-86 (14 pp).
- David P. Forsythe, Human rights in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (2nd edition).
- Todd Landman, “Chapter 9 Human Rights” in Todd Landmann, Issues and methods in Comparative Politics. An Introduction, Routledge 2003, pp 201-222. (20 pp)
- Pedro Pitarch, ‘The labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed ans Xochitl Leyva Solano (eds), Human Rights in the Maya Region, Duke University Press 2008, ch 4, pp 91-122 (31 pp).
- Ingvill Plesner, “Freedom of religion or belief: A quest for state neutrality?”, PhD dissertation, University of Oslo, 2008, Unipub 2008, ch 3.2, pp 83-129 (46 pp).