Reading list - syllabus
The books listed up as required readings, are available at the NCHR library (3-4 ex.). You are requested to make your own copies. There are also some exemplaires available at the bookstore Gnist Akademika (Law faculty). The books are expensive.
(1) Freedom of Religion or Belief
Required readings:
Tore Lindholm, W. Cole Durham Jr., Bahia Tahzib-Lie, eds., Faciliating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook, Brill, 2004: xxxvi-xlii, 147-172, 189-202, 209-239, 321-406, 455-494, 619-651
Total 225 pages
Recommended reading:
Lindholm et als, eds., A Deskbook, 911-914 (4pp); Martin Scheinin, “International Human Rights Law and the Islamic Headscarf – reflections on the positions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee” in W. Cole Durham Jr., Tore Lindholm, Rik Torfs, eds., Islam in Europe: Emerging Legal Issues Volume I ? Islam and the European Court: Critical Views, Leuven, 2008 (forthcoming);
James Nickel, "Who Needs Freedom of Religion?", Colorado Law Review (76) 2005:909-933 (25pp)
Total pages 32
(2) Protection of Equality and Non-discrimination
Required readings:
Schiek, Dagmar, and Lisa Waddington and Mark Bell, Non-Discrimination Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007): 25-70, 76-82, 185-197, 226-239, 323-347, 435-475, 757-801, 854-869 (199pp)
Total pages 199
Recommended readings:
Craig, Ronald. Systemic Discrimination in Employment and the Promotion of Ethnic Equality Chapter 2, The Concept of Discrimination, pages 34-43 (9pp)
General Comment 25 (CEDAW) on Temporary Special Measures (6pp)
Fredman, Sandra. Discrimination Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Chapter 1, Equality: Concepts and Controversies, pages 1-15 (15pp) Chapter 4, Legal Concepts: Direct, Indirect Discrimination, and Beyond, pages 92-124 (32pp).
Total pages 62
(3) Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
Required readings:
Donders, Yvonne, Towards a Right to Cultural Identity?, Antwerpen-Oxford-New York: Intersertia, 2002, pp.163-225, 247-300 (117pp)
Henrard, Kristin, “The Protection of Minorities Through the Equality Provisions in the UN Human Rights Treaties: The UN Treaty Bodies”, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Vol. 14 (2007), pp. 141-180 (40pp).
Horváth, Enik?, “Cultural Identity and Legal Status: Or the return of the Right to Have (particular) Rights”, in Cultural Human Rights, Francioni, Francesco and Martin Scheinin (eds.), Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008, pp.169-191 (22pp)
Lagoutte, Stephanie, and Eva Maria Lassen, “The Role of the State in balancing Religious Fredom with other Human Rights in a Multicultural European Context”, in Cultural Human Rights, Francioni, Francesco and Martin Scheinin (eds.), Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008, pp. 247-284 (38pp)
Mancini, Susanna and de Witte, Bruno, “Language Rights as Cultural Rights: A European Perspective”, in Cultural Human Rights, Francioni, Francesco and Martin Scheinin (eds.), Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008, pp.247-284 (37 pp).
Total pages 254
Recommended readings:
Donders, Yvonne, Towards a Right to Cultural Identity?, Antwerpen-Oxford-New York: Intersertia, 2002, pp. 301-326 (26pp)
The Human Rights Committee: General Comment No 23: The rights of minorities (Art.27) UN Doc. CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.5 (3pp)
Henrard, Kristin, Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection. Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination, The Hague –Boston-London: Kluwer Law International, 2000, pp.16-55 (40pp)
Scheinin, Martin “The Right of a People to Enjoy Its Culture: Towards A Nordic Saami Rights Convention”, in Cultural Human Rights, Francioni, Francesco and Martin Scheinin (eds.), Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008, pp.151-169 (19pp)
Total pages 78