Dear all, Please find a …

Dear all, Please find a message to all students from Professor Tore Lindholm (the same message is to be found in Fronter):

• 1 Slight modification of course readings:

First of all, a thank you to the alert student who brought me the message that a new and revised edition of Forsythe’s book is now available. I have now had time to look at the revised edition.

The availability of the new edition triggers a slight modification of our course readings, as follows: The course readings from David P. Forsythe, Human Rights in International Relations, 2nd Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 are chapters 3, 6, and 7 (pp. 57-86, 152-185, and 188-216)

To compensate for this increment of mandatory course readings from Forsythe’s book we relegate the chapters on the history of human rights from Nowak (or Tomuschat) to the status of recommended background readings; they are no longer included as mandatory course readings.

• 2 Subject-matter to be addressed in the forthcoming sessions 2 and 3:

Session 2, Thursday 18 January: Philosophy of human rights, I (Nickel chapters 4, 5, and 6; please prepare in advance!)

Session 3, Friday 9 February: Politics of human rights, I (Forsythe chapters 3, 6, and 7; Risse et als. chapter 8)

• 3 Writing assignment to be handed in Friday 9 February:

Of course, the reading assignment for session 3 is unusually large, due to the fact that there is a three weeks break between session 2 and session 3. I shall Thursday 18 January present you with a writing assignment, dealing with the subject-matter covered by readings from Forsythe and Risse et als., to be handed in 9 February. This way we get a head start discussing main topics of the entire course!