Humr introduction to International Human Rights Law

HUMR 5132 Human Rights Law in Context

Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursday, 10:15-12:00 (Note exception)

Commencing 1 November, Ending 1 December

Study Groups: See below for details.
Assessment: One formal Debate Performance (20%)

Essay Topic: Given out 2 Dec, to be returned 16 Dec (80 %)

Coordinator: Malcolm Langford
Place: NCHR Seminar Room (Note exceptions)

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Lecture 1: Introduction

1 November Lecturer: Malcolm Langford
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2008), pp. 1-22. (22 pages)
George Christie, Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 3-11 (8 pages).
Malcolm Langford, Jamie Bartram and Virginia Roaf, ‘Revisiting Dignity: The Human Right to Sanitation’ in Malcolm Langford and Anna Russell (eds.), The Right to Water: Theory, Practice and Prospects (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Chapter 11 (25 pages).
Primary Materials (Online)

Universal Declaration on Human Rights

Lecture 2: Civil Rights: Torture and Fair Trial

3 November Lecturer: Cecilia Baillet
Reading

Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2^nd ed., 2010), pp. 808-853 (45 pages)

Primary Materials (Online)

Cantoral Huamani and Garcia Santa Cruz v. Peru (2007) Inter American Court of Human Rights.

Durand and Ugarte v. Peru Inter American Court of Human Rights Series C

Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 32

Study Group (General) (12:15-14:00, Different Location: Room 354 Domus Nova)

7 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme

Seminar I: Civil Rights: Fair Trial Rights (10:15-11)

8 November Lecturer: Olaf Halverson Rønning, Juss Buss
Reading

Don Fleming, Legal aid and human rights, Paper presented to the International Legal Aid Group Conference, Antwerp, 6-8 June 2007, pp. 1-35 (35 pages) http://www.ilagnet.org/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/Antwerpen_2007/Conference_Papers/Legal_Aid_and_Human_Rights.pdf

Primary Materials (Online)

Airey v Ireland 32 Eur Ct HR Ser A (1979) (26 pages)

Lecture 3: Political Rights: Freedom of Expression and Democratic Rights

(Different Location: 354 Domus Nova)

10 November Lecturer: Olav Torvund and Bård A. Andreassen

Reading

Eric Barendt, Freedom of Speech (Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press, 2005), pp. 1-73 (73 pages)

Richard W. Krouse , ‘Polyarchy & Participation: The Changing Democratic Theory of Robert Dahl’, Polity, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1982), pp. 441-463 (22 pages).
Primary Materials (Online)

TV Vest AS & Rogaland Pensjonisparti v Norway [2008] ECHR 21132/05 (11 December 2008)

Study Group (General) (10:15-12:00)

15 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme

Lecture 4: Equality Rights

17 November Lecturer: Ronald Craig

Reading

Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2^nd ed., 2010), Read Chapter 15, 16 or 17 (42 pages)

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*, 2011), Chapter 14. (18 pages)
Primary Materials (Online)

D. H. v. Czech Republic, European Court of Human Rights 47 ILM 38 (2008).

Lecture 5: Conflicts or Synergies? Freedom of Religion and Equality Rights

18 November Lecturer: Ingvill Plesner
Brian Barry: Liberal States and Illiberal Religions” in Culture and Equality, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2001: 155-193 (38 pages).
Martha C. Nussbaum: “The Role of Religion” in Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000: 206-240 (34 pages).

Study Group (General) (12:15-14:00, Different Location: Room 340 Domus Nova)

21 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme

Lecture 6: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

22 November Lecturer: Asbjørn Eide and Stener Ekern

Reading

Asbjørn Eide: 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).

‘The right of “peoples” and “indigenous peoples”’, in Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2^nd ed., 2010), pp. 472-509 (35 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).
Recommended

Asbjørn Eide ‘Prevention of Discrimination, Protection of Minorities, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Challenges and Choices in Eide, Møller and Ziemele (eds.), Making peoples heard (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011) (20 pages)

Primary Materials (Online)

Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua, 31 August 2001, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/articulos/seriec_79_ing.pdf

Lecture 7: Thematic Study: Case of Enforced Disappearances

24 November Lecturers: Kjetil Larsen and Lecturer to be announced

Reading

Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2^nd ed., 2010), pp. 855-878 (23 pages).

Naomi Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transitional Justice in the Age of Human Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), pp. 1-31 and 97-117 (25 pages – thin book)

Study Group (4 Debates) (10:15-12:00)

25 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme
Lecture 8: Socio-Economic Rights

29 November Lecturer: Malcolm Langford
Reading

Henry Steiner, Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, International Human Rights in Context (OUP, 2007), pp. 280-301) (21 pages)

Malcolm Langford (ed.), ‘Justiciability of Social Rights: From Practice to Theory, Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 3-45 (42 pages)
Recommended

Malcolm Langford, 'Social Security and Children: Testing the Boundaries of Human Rights and Economics', in Stephen Marks, Bård Anders Andrassen and Arjun Sengupta, Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Economic Perspectives (Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2009), pp. 193-217 (24 pages), http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/people/aca/malcolml/Human%20rights%20and%20economics.pdf

Primary Materials (Online)

Government of the Republic of South Africa. & Ors v Grootboom & Ors 2000 (11) BCLR 1169. (CC)

Lecture 9: Conflicts or Synergies? Property and Socio-Economic Rights

1 December Lecturer: Malcolm Langford

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)

Theo Van Banning, The Human Right to Property (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2002), pp. 33-79 (46 pages).
Recommended

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.

Theo Van Banning, The Human Right to Property (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2002), pp. 79-125.
Primary Materials

James v United Kingdom (1986) 8 EHRR 123, European Court of Human Rights

SERAC & CESR v Nigeria, Communication No. 155/96, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, 27 May 2002.
Seminar II: Civil Rights: Torture and Psychology (13:00-14:00)

1 December Lecturer: Nora Sveaass
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)

Study Group (4-5 Debates) (10:15-12:00)

2 December Responsible: Marie Kvamme