Syllabus/achievement requirements

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 for the course:

Ilias Bantekas and Lutz Oette, International Human Rights Law and Practice, second edition (Cambridge University Press, 2016), chapters 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 (465 pages).

Articles and book chapters (266 pages):

Anne Phillips, Gender & Culture (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010), pp. 16-37 (22 pages). (To be distributed in class)

Antoine Buyse, ‘Words of Violence: “Fear Speech”, or How Violent Conflict Escalation Relates to the Freedom of Expression’, 36(4) Human Rights Quarterly (2014), pp. 779-797 (19 pages). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/557745 

Ant?nio Augusto Can?ado Trindade, ‘The Interrelation between the Access to Justice (Right to an Effective Remedy) and the Guarantees of the Due Process of Law’ in The Access of Individuals to International Justice (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 63-75 (13 pages). http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580958.001.0001/acprof-9780199580958-chapter-4#p63 

Deborah Rhode, Access to Justice, 69(5) Fordham Law Review (2001), pp.1785-1819 (34 pages). http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/flr69&page=1785&collection=journals

Ekern, Stener, ‘The Production of Autonomy: Leadership and Community in Mayan Guatemala’, 43(1) Journal of Latin American Studies (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 University Press, 2005), pp. 74-116 (43 pages). http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199225811.001.0001/acprof-9780199225811-chapter-3#p74

James Griffin, ‘When Human Rights Conflict’, in On Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 58-82 (24 pages). http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238781.001.0001/acprof-9780199238781-chapter-4#p58

Kinga Gál, The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and its Impact on Central and Eastern Europe (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany, 2000) (17 pages). http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?men_tab=srchresults&handle=hein.journals/jemie2000&id=131&size=2&collection=journals&terms=on|The%20Council%20of%20Europe%20Framework|FOR|for|Convention%20for%20the%20Protection%20of%20National%20Minorities%20and%20its%20Impact%20on%20Central%20and%20Eastern%20Europe%20KINGA|and&termtype=phrase&set_as_cursor=0

M. 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), pp. 187-225 (39 pages). http://ebooks.cambridge.org/pdf_viewer.jsf?cid=CBO9781139108591A018&ref=true&pubCode=CUP&urlPrefix=cambridge&productCode=cbo

Rikki Holtmaat, ‘The CEDAW: a holistic approach to women’s equality and freedom’, in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen (eds), Women’s Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 95-124 (29 pages). http://ebooks.cambridge.org/pdf_viewer.jsf?cid=CBO9781139540841A013&ref=true&pubCode=CUP&urlPrefix=cambridge&productCode=cbo

Total: 731 pages

Recommended reading (besides other chapters in the textbook):

Asbj?rn Eide ‘The Framework Convention in Historical and Global Perspective’ in Mark Weller (ed), The Rights of Minorities: A Commentary on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Oxford University Press, 2005), (22 pages).

Celestine Nyamu Musebi, ‘Pulling apart? Treatment of pluralism in the CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol’, in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen (eds), Women’s Human Rights, (Cambridge University Press 2013), pp. 183-213 (31 pages). http://ebooks.cambridge.org/pdf_viewer.jsf?cid=CBO9781139540841A016&ref=true&pubCode=CUP&urlPrefix=cambridge&productCode=cbo

Corradetti, Claudio, ‘What does cultural difference require of human rights’ in C. Holder and D. Reidy (eds), Human Rights. The Hard Questions (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 136-149 (13 pages).

Eric A. Posner, The Twilight of Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) (185 pages).

Jeremy Waldron, ‘Socio-Economic Rights and Theories of Justice’, in Thomas Pogge (ed), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Paris: UNESCO), pp. 21-49 (26 pages).

Malcolm Langford (ed.), ‘Justiciability of Social Rights: From Practice to Theory’, in  Malcolm Langford (ed), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 3-45 (42 pages).

Martha C. Nussbaum: ‘The Role of Religion’ in Martha C. Nussbaum (ed), Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 206-240 (34 pages).

Sandra Fredman, ‘Engendering socio-economic rights’, in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen (eds), Women’s Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 217-242 (25 pages).

Suggested sources for international law and/or international litterature:

Alison Bisset (ed), Blackstone’s International Human Rights Law Documents, ninth edition (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Ole Kristian Fauchald and B?rd Sverre Tuseth (eds), Global and Regional Treaties (Oslo,2012).

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