Syllabus/achievement requirements

Reading list for HUMR4140 - Introduction to Human Rights Law. Autumn 2010

1. Required reading

Articles and extraits from books are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law faculty (Domus Nova building).

Books and articles

• Catarina Krause and Martin Scheinin, International Protection of Human Rights: A Textbook (Åbo Akademi University, 2009),

pp. 39-60. (21) pp. 79-104.(25) pp. 105-128.(23) pp. 389-424.(35) pp. 503-528.(25)

• Malcolm Langford (ed.), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

pp. 477-516 (39) pp. 339-371(32) pp. 75-101 (26) pp. 1-45 (45) pp. 144-162. (18) pp. 517-539 (22) pp 613-627 (14)

• David Kennedy, ‘The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?’, Harvard Human Rights Law Journal, No. 15 (2002), pp. 101-128. (27) http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss15/kennedy.shtml

• Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 1-22. (22)

• Antonio Cassese, International Criminal Law, pp. 1-32. (32)

• Richard Burchill, Democracy and International Law (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), Introduction (13)

• James Anaya, “Self-Determination: A Foundational Principle”, in Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2004), 75-96. (21)

• Mark Gibney and Sigrun Skogly, ‘Introduction’, in M. Gibney and S. Skogly (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 2010), pp.1-9 (9)

Cases and Materials

Extracts of cases and materials

• Henry Steiner, Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman, International Human Rights in Context (OUP, 2007), pp. 58-148, 151-174, 1124-1155, 669-835, 1243-1330, 1087-1123, 175-262, 263-311;

• International Standards – Treaties, Declarations and Resolutions

• UN Charter 1945

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966

• Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966

• Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2008

• Convention Against Torture

• Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

• Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• ILO Declaration 169

• Rome Statute

• European Convention on Human Rights and Revised European Social Charter

• Inter-American Convention on Human Rights and Inter-American Declaration on Human Rights

• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Protocol to the African Charter on Human And Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

• ASEAN Charter (Article 14) and Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism Statement on the ASEAN Charter

• Security Council resolution 1379 (2001) on "Children and armed conflict"

• Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Egypt, Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, Seventh session, Human Rights Council, Geneva, 8–19 February 2010, http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session7/EG/A_HRC_WG.6_7_L.16_Egypt_rev.pdf

Jurisprudence

• Rickly Burrell v. Jamaica, Communication No. 546/1993, U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/53/D/546/1993 (1996).

• Conclusions and recommendations of CESCR: Philippines, U.N. Doc. E/C.12/1995/7 (1995)

• Kozak v. Poland, Application No. 13102/02, Date of Decision: 2 March 2010, European Court of Human Rights.

• Barrios Altos Case (Chumbipuma Aguirre et al. v. Peru) Inter-Am. Ct. H. R. Judgment of 14 March

2001 (ser. C) No. 83, par. 1.

• SERAC v Nigeria, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 155/96 (‘SERAC Case’).

• Baker v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [1999] 2 SCR 817

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

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

• CESCR, General Comment No. 3 and No. 15

• Autism-Europe v France, European Committee on Social Rights, No. 13/2002.

• D. H. v. Czech Republic

• A.T. v Hungary (CEDAW, 2/2003)

• Mabo & Ors v. Queensland (No. 2) [1992] HCA 23; (1992) 175 CLR 1, per Brennan J, (extract)

• Awas Tingis v Nicaragua, Merits, Reparations and Costs. Judgement of August 31, 2001. Series C. No.79. (extract)

• Ilmari Länsman et al. v. Finland (Communication No. 511/1992), Views of 26 October 1994.

• Banković and Others v. Belgium and Others (Application No. 52207/99), Decision of 12 December 2001

• International Court of Justice: Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation) - Order - Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures, (n.y.r.), 15 October 2008, § 109

National Constitutions and Laws

• Water Services Act (South Africa) - Extract

• Bill of Rights Extracts – India, Colombia, South Africa, Germany, US, Norway, Hungary, Canada

2. Recommended reading

• Charles Beitz, The Idea of Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 13-47.

• Pooja Parmar, ‘Revisiting the human right to water’, The Australian Feminist Law Journal , Vol. 28 (2008), pp. 77-96.

• Introduction to Public International Law Research, available at http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Public_International_Law_Research.htm

• Matthew Craven, The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on its Development (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 1-29.

• Antonio Cassese, International Criminal Law, pp. 32-75.

• ICTJ, Serbia and Montenegro: Selected Developments in Transitional Justice (1994), Working Paper pp. 1-13, available at http://www.ictj.org/images/content/1/1/117.pdf

• Sky Mykyta, ‘Encouraging a Culture of Justification: A Comparison of Teoh and Baker’, Deakin Law Review, Vol. 8 (2003). Pp. 367 - 379.

• Malcolm Langford (ed.), Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 102-124 or 125-143

• Sandra Fredman, Discrimination Law (2002), pp. 1-26.

• Asbjørn Eide, ‘Rights of indigenous peoples – achievements in international law during the last quarter of a century’ Journal of Indigenous Peoples Rights No. 4 (2007), pp. 40-82 (42)

• Marten Den Heijer and Rick Lawson, ‘Extraterritorial Human Rights and the Concept of Jurisdiction’, in M. Langford, M. Scheinin, W. Vandenhole and W. Genugten, Extra-Territoriality and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (forthcoming).

• 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.