Articles and extraits from books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law Faculty (Domus Nova building).
Required reading
Textbook:
Javaid Rehman, International Human Rights Law (Pearson, 2nd ed., 2010), pp. 472-640 and 808-878 (240 pages)
Articles:
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2009), pp. 1-22. (22 pages). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,12181971x&vid=UBO
*Brian Barry: “Liberal States and Illiberal Religions” in Brian Barry: Culture and Equality : an egalitarian critique of multiculturalism, Cambridge, Polity (2001), pp. 155-193 (38 pages).
*Corradetti, Claudio (2013), What does cultural difference require of human rights, in C. Holder and D. Reidy (eds.), Human Rights. The Hard Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 136-149 (13 pages).
*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).
*Eide, Asbjørn: 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).
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). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=8243970&jid=LAS&volumeId=43&issueId=01&aid=8243968
Eric Barendt, Freedom of Speech (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 1-73 (73 pages). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,111279224&vid=UBO
Fredman, Sandra (2013): “Engendering socio-economic rights”, In A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen. Women’s Human Rights. Cambridge University Press, 217-242 (25 p.) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139540841
George Christie, Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 3-11 (8 pages).
http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,120304287&vid=UBO
*Griffin, James (2008), On Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 83-110 (28 pages). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,101683952&vid=UBO
Holtmaat, Rikki (2013): “The CEDAW: a holistic approach to women’s equality and freedom”, In A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen. Women’s Human Rights. Cambridge University Press, 95- 124 (29 s.) http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139540841
*Jeremy Waldron, 'Socio-Economic Rights and Theories of Justice', in Thomas Pogge (ed.), Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Paris: UNESCO, 2007), pp. 21-49 (26 pages)
*Malcolm Langford (ed.), ‘Justiciability of Social Rights: From Practice to Theory. In: Social Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 3-45 (42 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).
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, The Pinochet Effect: Transitional Justice in the Age of Human Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), pp. 97-117 (25 pages). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,121812820&vid=UBO
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) http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nyclr11&id=292&collection=journals&index=journals/nyclr#292
*Phillips, Anne (2010), Gender & Culture, Cambridge: Polity Press, 16-37 (22 s.)
*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*), Chapter 14. (18 pages). (not yet published).
*Theo Van Banning, The Human Right to Property (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2002), pp. 33-79 (46 pages).
Recommended reading
Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics (2008), pp. 159-198. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511811340
Eide, Asbjørn ‘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) http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004215801
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. http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals%2Fhanselr&collection=journals
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, http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/people/aca/malcolml/Human%20rights%20and%20economics.pdf
Naomi Roht-Arriaza (2005), The Pinochet Effect: Transitional Justice in the Age of Human Rights, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1-31 (30 s.)
http://lib.myilibrary.com/Open.aspx?id=321192
Theo Van Banning, The Human Right to Property (Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2002), pp. 79-125.