Teaching plan

Notice: Any page references provided in this Course Outline are to facilitate student preparation for each lecture. They are not a substitute for the official reading list for which students are responsible on the final examination.

Location: Lectures take place in room 365, Domus Nova building (St. Olavs kvartal), from 10:15-12 unless stated otherwise.

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
02.09.2009Professor Cecilia Bailliet? room 356, DN? Definition of terrorism. Core Elements. The Permanent Emergency. Overview of International Cooperation – UN, Europe & the Americas? ?

Instruments:

  • UN Resolution 1373
  • Inter American Convention Against Terrorism
  • OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism
  • EU Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism
  • SAARC Convention

Website:

Reading:

  • Duffy, Chapter 2
  • Karima Bennoune, Terror/Torture, 26 Berkeley Journal of International Law 1 2008

Websites:

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
09.09.2009Researcher Richard Hustad? room 356, DN? The Relationship Between Human Rights and Counter-terrorism? The readings etc. listed below is intended for both lecture 2 & 3?
16.09.2009Researcher Richard Hustad? room 356, DN? The Relationship Between Human Rights and Counter-terrorism? ?

Readings:

Instruments (all included in Cumulative Handout):

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art. 3
  • Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Arts. 4 & 5
  • Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Arts. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12. 14-16, & 19
  • General Comment 10 on the Freedom of Expression, HRC (1983)
  • General Comment 29 on States of Emergency, HRC (2001)
  • Siracusa Principles on the Limitation and Derogation of Provisions in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • Paris Minimum Standards of Human Rights Norms in a State of Emergency

Cases (all included in Cumulative Handout):

  • Delgado Paez v. Columbia, 1985 HRC 195 (1990)
  • Adrien Mundyo Busyo, et. al. v. Democratic Rep. of Congo, 2000 HRC 933 (2003)
  • Jorge Landinelli Silva v. Uruguay, 1978 HRC R.8/34 (1981)
  • The Greek Case, 12 EComm.HR 1 (1969)
  • Adolfo Drescher Caldas v. Uruguay, 1979 HRC 43 (1990)
  • Antti Vuolanne v. Finland, 1987 HRC 265 (1989)
  • Ross v. Canada, 1997 HRC 736 (2000)
  • Faurisson v. France, 1993 HRC 550 (1996)
  • Concluding Observation on Guinea, HRC (1993)
  • Compulsory Membership in an Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism, Inter-American Court of HR Advisory Opinion OC-5/85 (1985)
  • Jong-Kyu Sohn v. Republic of Korea, 1992 HRC 518 (1995)

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
21.09.2009Martin Scheinin, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism? 10:00-12, in Norwegian Center of Human Rights (NCHR), Cort Adelersgt. 30, auditorium (ground floor)? Socio-Economic Rights & Terrorism? Guest lecture?
23.09.2009Professor Cecilia Bailliet? room 356, DN? Torture? ?

Instruments:

Reading:

Case:

Ireland v. UK, ECHR

http://www.aclu.org/accountability/released.html

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
07.10.2009Professor Cecilia Bailliet? room 356, DN? Extraordinary Rendition, Enforced Disappearance & Non-Refoulement? ?

Instrument:

?Reading:

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DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
14.10.2009Simon O’Connor, Legal Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross? room 356, DN? Counter-terrorism and ‘Transnational’ Armed Conflicts? ?

Reading:

  • Duffy, Chapter 6 pages 217-228 and 249-273

Treaty Law:

  • Common Articles 2 and 3 to Geneva Conventions of 1949
  • Articles 4 and 5 of Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949
  • Articles 1 and 43- 45 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

Jurisprudence:

  • Prosecutor v Tadic ICTY Decision on the Defence Motion for Interlocutory Appeal on Jurisdiction (Appeals Chamber) paras. 65-70

Pleadings:

Government Documents:

  • “Protected Person” Status in Occupied Iraq Under the Fourth Geneva Convention March 18 2004 Memorandum for the Counsel to the President (Office of Legal Counsel US Department of Justice see - http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2004/gc4mar18.pdf

Articles:

Optional Readings:

  • Antonio Cassese, Terrorism is Also Disrupting Some Crucial Legal Categories of International Law 12 EJIL (2001) 993-1001

  • Marco Sassoli, Terrorism and War 4 JICL (2006) 959-981

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
05.11.2009Simon O’Connor, Legal Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross? room 356, DN? The Targets of Counter-terrorism: Direct Participants of Hostes Humanis Generis ?? ?

Reading:

  • Duffy Chapter 6, pages 228-249

Treaty Law:

  • Articles 43- 45 and 50-51 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

  • Article 13 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of Non-International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

  • Article 101-107, 110-111 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982

United Nations:

Security Council Resolutions:

  • 1269 on the responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security

  • 1373 on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts 1851 on the situation in Somalia

ICRC:

Pleadings:

Government documents

Articles:

  • Kontorovich, E. Guantanamo on the Sea The Difficulties of Prosecuting Pirates and Terrorists Northwestern University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Series No.09-10, see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1371122 Due to be published California Law Review Vol. 98 February 2010 pages 1-39

Optional Readings:

  • Humanitarian Law and Direct Participation in Hostilities by Private Contractors or Civilian Employees 5 Chicago Journal of International Law 511-546 (2005)

  • Simpson, G. Law War and Crime Chapter 7

  • SUA Convention Articles 3-7

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
11.11.2009Nobuo Hayashi, Reseacher, PRIO? room 356, DN? Criminalising Terrorism and Related Acts under International Law? ?

Mandatory readings:

  • Duffy, chap. 4 (esp. pp. 73-117)

Optional readings:

  • Duffy, chap. 4 (pp. 117-143)

  • Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas, Terrorist Financing: Explaining Government Responses, in TERRORIST FINANCING AND STATE RESPONSES: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, pp. 282-296 (2007)

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
18.11.2009Nobuo Hayashi, Researcher, PRIO? room 356, DN? Keeping Counter-Terrorist Measures in Check I – Prospects and Limitations of National Self-Correction ? ?

Mandatory readings:

Optional readings:

  • Duffy, chap. 8 (esp. pp. 379-430)

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
25.11.2009Nobuo Hayashi, Researcher, PRIO? room 356, DN? Keeping Counter-Terrorist Measures in Check II – Norms and Institutions of International Criminal Justice and ‘Transnational’ Armed Conflicts? ?

Mandatory readings:

  • Philippe Sands, Torture Teams: Uncovering War Crimes in the Land of the Free (Penguin 2009), pp. 211-294

  • Duffy, chap. 8 (esp. pp. 430-442)

Optional readings:

Extra:

Special Film: Torturing Democracyhttp://www.torturingdemocracy.org/

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