Articles and extraits from books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law Faculty (Domus Nova building).
Required reading
Textbook:
Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2nd ed., 2010), pp. 472-640 and 808-878 (240 pages)
Articles:
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2009), pp. 1-22. (22 pages). Available online via Oria.no.
*Brian Barry: “Liberal States and Illiberal Religions” in Brian Barry: Culture and Equality : an egalitarian critique of multiculturalism, Cambridge, Polity (2001), pp. 155-193 (38 pages).
Celestine Nyamu Musebi "Pulling apart? Treatment of pluralism in the CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol" in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen. Women's Human Rights. Cambridge University Press 2013, 183-213 (31 pp.) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/pdf_viewer.jsf?cid=CBO9781139540841A016&ref=true&pubCode=CUP&urlPrefix=cambridge&productCode=cbo
*Corradetti, Claudio (2013), What does cultural difference require of human rights, in C. Holder and D. Reidy (eds.), Human Rights. The Hard Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 136-149 (13 pages).
*Eide, Asbj?rn: The Framework Convention in Historical and Global Perspective, in Mark Weller (ed.): The Rights of Minorities. A commentary on the Europe, an Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Oxford University Press, 2005 (22 pages).
Ekern, Stener, "The Production of Autonomy: Leadership and Community in Mayan Guatemala", Journal of Latin American Studies 43 (Issue 1, February, 2011), pp 93-119. (26 pages). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=8243970&jid=LAS&volumeId=43&issueId=01&aid=8243968
Eric Barendt, Freedom of Speech (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 1-73 (73 pages). Available online via Oria.no
Fredman, Sandra (2013): “Engendering socio-economic rights”, In A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen. Women’s Human Rights. Cambridge University Press, 217-242 (25 p.) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139540841
George Christie, Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 3-11 (8 pages).
Available online via Oria.no
Griffin, James (2008), On Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 83-110 (28 pages). Available online via Oria.no
Holtmaat, Rikki (2013): “The CEDAW: a holistic approach to women’s equality and freedom”, In A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen. Women’s Human Rights. Cambridge University Press, 95- 124 (29 s.) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139540841
*Jeremy Waldron, 'Socio-Economic Rights and Theories of Justice', in Thomas Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Paris: UNESCO, 2007), pp. 21-49 (26 pages)
*Malcolm Langford (ed.), ‘Justiciability of Social Rights: From Practice to Theory. In: Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 3-45 (42 pages).
Malcolm Langford, "Housing Rights Litigation: Grootboom and Beyond" in M. Langford, B. Cousins, J. Dugard and T. Madlingozi (eds.), Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa; Symbols or Substance? Cambridge University Press 2014, 187-225 (37 pp.) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/pdf_viewer.jsf?cid=CBO9781139108591A018&ref=true&pubCode=CUP&urlPrefix=cambridge&productCode=cbo
*Martha C. Nussbaum: “The Role of Religion”. In: Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000: 206-240 (34 pages).
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transitional Justice in the Age of Human Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), pp. 97-117 (25 pages). Available online via Oria.no
Nora Sveaass, ‘Destroying minds: Psychological Pain and the Crime of Torture, New York City Law Review, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2008), pp. 303-324 (17 pages) http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nyclr11&id=292&collection=journals&index=journals/nyclr#292
*Phillips, Anne (2010), Gender & Culture, Cambridge: Polity Press, 16-37 (22 s.)
*Ronald Craig, ‘Systemic Workplace Discrimination: Enforcing Employer-Driven Self-Regulation in M. Langford, Equality and Social Rights: International Law in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press*), Chapter 14. (18 pages). (not yet published).
Total: 776 pp.
Recommended reading
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2008), pp. 159-198. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511811340
Eide, Asbj?rn ‘Prevention of Discrimination, Protection of Minorities, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Challenges and Choices in Eide, M?ller and Ziemele (eds.), Making peoples heard (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011) http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004215801
J. Cernic, ‘Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights: A Critical Analysis of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises’, Hanse Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 71-100. http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals%2Fhanselr&collection=journals
Malcolm Langford, 'Social Security and Children: Testing the Boundaries of Human Rights and Economics', in Stephen Marks, B?rd Anders Andrassen and Arjun Sengupta, Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Economic Perspectives (Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2009), pp. 193-217, http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/people/aca/malcolml/Human%20rights%20and%20economics.pdf
Naomi Roht-Arriaza (2005), The Pinochet Effect: Transitional Justice in the Age of Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-31 (30 s.)
http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=321192
Theo Van Banning, The Human Right to Property (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2002), pp. 79-125.