<p>HUMR 5132 Human Rights Law in Context Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursday, 10:15-12:00 (Note exception) Commencing 1 November, Ending 1 December</p><p>Study Groups: See below for details. </p><p>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) ______</p><p>Lecture 1: Introduction 1 November Lecturer: Malcolm Langford </p><p>Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2008), pp. 1-22. (22 pages)</p><p>George Christie, Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 3-11 (8 pages).</p><p>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).</p><p>Primary Materials (Online) Universal Declaration on Human Rights</p><p>Lecture 2: Civil Rights: Torture and Fair Trial 3 November Lecturer: Cecilia Baillet </p><p>Reading Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2nd ed., 2010), pp. 808-853 (45 pages)</p><p>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 </p><p>Study Group (General) (12:15-14:00, Different Location: Room 354 Domus Nova) 7 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme</p><p>Seminar I: Civil Rights: Fair Trial Rights (10:15-11) 8 November Lecturer: Olaf Halverson Rønning, Juss Buss</p><p>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/Co nference_Papers/Legal_Aid_and_Human_Rights.pdf</p><p>Primary Materials (Online) Airey v Ireland 32 Eur Ct HR Ser A (1979) (26 pages)</p><p>Lecture 3: Political Rights: Freedom of Expression and Democratic Rights (Different Location: 354 Domus Nova)</p><p>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)</p><p>Richard W. Krouse , ‘Polyarchy & Participation: The Changing Democratic Theory of Robert Dahl’, Polity, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1982), pp. 441-463 (22 pages).</p><p>Primary Materials (Online) TV Vest AS & Rogaland Pensjonisparti v Norway [2008] ECHR 21132/05 (11 December 2008)</p><p>Study Group (General) (10:15-12:00) 15 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme</p><p>Lecture 4: Equality Rights 17 November Lecturer: Ronald Craig</p><p>Reading Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2nd ed., 2010), Read Chapter 15, 16 or 17 (42 pages)</p><p>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)</p><p>Primary Materials (Online) D. H. v. Czech Republic, European Court of Human Rights 47 ILM 38 (2008).</p><p>Lecture 5: Conflicts or Synergies? Freedom of Religion and Equality Rights 18 November Lecturer: Ingvill Plesner</p><p>Brian Barry: Liberal States and Illiberal Religions” in Culture and Equality, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2001: 155-193 (38 pages). </p><p>Martha C. Nussbaum: “The Role of Religion” in Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000: 206-240 (34 pages). </p><p>Study Group (General) (12:15-14:00, Different Location: Room 340 Domus Nova) 21 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme</p><p>Lecture 6: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 22 November Lecturer: Asbjørn Eide and Stener Ekern</p><p>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).</p><p>‘The right of “peoples” and “indigenous peoples”’, in Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2nd 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).</p><p>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) </p><p>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</p><p>Lecture 7: Thematic Study: Case of Enforced Disappearances 24 November Lecturers: Kjetil Larsen and Lecturer to be announced</p><p>Reading Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2nd ed., 2010), pp. 855-878 (23 pages).</p><p>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)</p><p>Study Group (4 Debates) (10:15-12:00) 25 November Responsible: Marie Kvamme</p><p>Lecture 8: Socio-Economic Rights 29 November Lecturer: Malcolm Langford</p><p>Reading Henry Steiner, Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, International Human Rights in Context (OUP, 2007), pp. 280-301) (21 pages)</p><p>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)</p><p>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</p><p>Primary Materials (Online) Government of the Republic of South Africa. & Ors v Grootboom & Ors 2000 (11) BCLR 1169. (CC)</p><p>Lecture 9: Conflicts or Synergies? Property and Socio-Economic Rights 1 December Lecturer: Malcolm Langford </p><p>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)</p><p>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.</p><p>Theo Van Banning, The Human Right to Property (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2002), pp. 79-125. </p><p>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.</p><p>Seminar II: Civil Rights: Torture and Psychology (13:00-14:00) 1 December Lecturer: Nora Sveaass</p><p>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)</p><p>Study Group (4-5 Debates) (10:15-12:00) 2 December Responsible: Marie Kvamme</p>