Required reading
Textbook for the course:
Ilias Bantekas and Lutz Oette, International Human Rights Law and Practice, third edition (Cambridge University Press, 2020), selected chapters (604 pages).
Book chapters and articles (200 pages):
Deborah Rhode, Access to Justice, 69(5) Fordham Law Review (2001), pp.1785-1819 (34 pages).
Martin Scheinin, Access to Justice before International Human Rights Bodies: Reflections on the Practice of the UN Human Rights Committee and the European Court of Human Rights, in Francesco Francioni (ed), Access to Justice as a Human Right (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 135-152 (18 pp).
Stener Ekern, ‘The Production of Autonomy: Leadership and Community in Mayan Guatemala’, 43(1) Journal of Latin American Studies (2011), pp. 93-119 (26 pages).
G. Zyberi, ‘The International Court of Justice and the Rights of Peoples and Minorities’ in Christian Tams and James Sloan (eds.), The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 327-352 (25 pages).
G. Zyberi ‘The Role of Non-State Actors in Implementing the Responsibility to Protect’, in Cedric Ryngaert and Math Noortmann (eds.) Human Security and International Law: The Challenge of Non-State Actors (Intersentia, 2014), pp. 53-74 (21 pages).
Peris S. Jones, AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), chapters 1 and 2, respectively on ‘1. The Struggle to Access Treatment and Other Services in South Africa’, and ‘2. Conceptualizing Human Rights and “Access” to Medication’, pp. 25-72 (47 pages).
Rikki Holtmaat, ‘The CEDAW: a holistic approach to women’s equality and freedom’, in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen (eds), Women’s Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 95-124 (29 pages).
Total: 804 pages
Some recommended reading:
Antoine Buyse, ‘Words of Violence: “Fear Speech”, or How Violent Conflict Escalation Relates to the Freedom of Expression’, 36(4) Human Rights Quarterly (2014), pp. 779-797 (19 pages).
Asbjørn Eide ‘The Framework Convention in Historical and Global Perspective’ in Mark Weller (ed), The Rights of Minorities: A Commentary on the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (Oxford University Press, 2005), (22 pages).
Celestine Nyamu Musebi, ‘Pulling apart? Treatment of pluralism in the CEDAW and the Maputo Protocol’, in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen (eds), Women’s Human Rights, (Cambridge University Press 2013), pp. 183-213 (31 pages).
Corradetti, Claudio, ‘What does cultural difference require of human rights’ in C. Holder and D. Reidy (eds), Human Rights. The Hard Questions (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 136-149 (13 pages).
Eric A. Posner, The Twilight of Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) (185 pages).
Francesco Francioni, ‘The Rights of Access to Justice under Customary International Law’, in Francesco Francioni (ed), Access to Justice as a Human Right (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 1-55 (55 pages).
G. Zyberi 'The Interpretation and Development of International Human Rights Law by the International Court of Justice', in Martin Scheinin (ed.), The Relevance of Human Rights Norms before ‘Other’ International Courts and Tribunals (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 28-61.
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).
Kinga Gál, The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and its Impact on Central and Eastern Europe (European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany, 2000) (17 pages).
M. Langford, ‘Housing Rights Litigation: Grootboom and Beyond’ in M. Langford, B. Cousins, J. Dugard and T. Madlingozi (eds), Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa: Symbols or Substance? (Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 187-225 (39 pages).
Martha C. Nussbaum: ‘The Role of Religion’ in Martha C. Nussbaum (ed), Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach(Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 206-240 (34 pages).
Samuel Moyn, Beyond the Human Rights Measurement Controversy, Law and Contemporary Problems 81 (2018), pp. 121-137 (18 pages).
Sandra Fredman, ‘Engendering socio-economic rights’, in A. Hellum and H. Sinding Aasen (eds), Women’s Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 217-242 (25 pages).
Suggested treaty collections on human rights:
Alison Bisset (ed), Blackstone’s International Human Rights Law Documents, tenth edition (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Ole Kristian Fauchald and Bård Sverre Tuseth (eds), Global and Regional Treaties (Oslo, 2016).
Urfan Khaliq, International Human Rights Law Documents (Cambridge University Press, 2018).