Required Reading
All books can be purchased from Akademika bookstore, Law Faculty (Domus Nova).
a) Books:
- Andreassen, Bård A, Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (2017), Research Methods in Human Rights. A Handbook, London: Ed Elgar 2017. Chapters 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18 (203 pp).
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Nygaard, Lynn P. (2017) Writing Your Master's Thesis: From A to Zen. London: SAGE.
- Landman, Todd (2006), Studying Human Rights, London and New York: Routledge, Ch 1, pp 1-18 (17 pp), Ch 3, pp 36-57 (21 pp) https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=BIBSYS_ILS71520786030002201&context=L&vid=UIO&search_scope=default_scope&isFrbr=true&tab=default_tab&lang=no_NO
- Trachtenberg, Marc (2006), The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method, Princeton University Press, Ch 1, pp 1-29. (29 pp) http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/trachtenberg/cv/craft.pdf
b) Articles
The following chapters and articles are available directly from Internet or by using "ORIA"
You may search for journals (printed and e-journals) by using "ORIA" or "Find e-Journal". Both are available at the English home page of The Faculty of Law Library: http://www.ub.uio.no/english/
- Brems, Eva (2009), “Methods in Legal Human Rights Research”, in Coomans, Fons, Fred Grünfeld and Menno T Kamminga (eds.), Methods of Human Rights Research, Intersentia, pp 77-89. (12 pp) - HANDED OUT/CANVAS
- Ekern, Stener (2010), “The modernizing bias of human rights: stories of mass killings and genocide in Central America”, in Journal of Genocide research, 12:3-4, pp 219-242. (21 pp) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2010.52899
- Kanstroom, Daniel (2008), “On 'Waterboarding': Legal Interpretation and the Continuing Struggle for Human Rights”, Boston College Third World Law Journal, Vol. 28, pp 269-287. (18 pp) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/bctw28&page=269&collection=journals
- Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict - A/HRC/29/52, 24 June 2015, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIGazaConflict/Pages/ReportCoIGaza.aspx
- Andreassen, Bård A and Gordon Crawford (2015), ‘Human Rights and Development: Putting Power and Politics at the Center’, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol 33 (3), pp 662-691. 29 sider https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_museS1085794X15300049&context=PC&vid=UIO&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=no_NO
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Christian List and Laura Valentini "The Methodology of Political Theory " in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology Edited by Herman Cappelen, Tamar Szabó Gendler, and John Hawthorne (2016); DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668779.013.10 (37 pp) https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_ouporr10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199668779.013.10&context=PC&vid=UIO&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=no_NO
- Focarelli, Carlo (2012), International Law as Social Construct: The Struggle for Global Justice, Oxford University Press, pp 89-140. (51 pp) https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_ebrary_pqebrary11272942&context=PC&vid=UIO&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=no_NO
- Montgomery, Heather (2001), “Imposing Rights? A Case Study of Child Prostitution in Thailand”, in Cowan, Jane K., Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 80-102. (22 pp) HANDED OUT/CANVAS
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T. M. SCANLON "The Aims and Authority of Moral Theory" Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1 March 1992, Pages 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/12.1.1
- Zyberi, Gentian (2015), ‘The Role and Contribution of International Courts in Furthering Peace as an Essential Community Interest’, in Cecilia M Bailliet and Kjetil M Larsen (eds), Promoting Peace Through International Law, Oxford Univ. Press, Ch 17, pp 344-367. (23 pp) https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_oxford_scholarshiposo/9780198722731.003.0017&context=PC&vid=UIO&search_scope=default_scope&tab=default_tab&lang=no_NO
Total: 727 pp.
Recommended readings:
- Dessler, David (1991), “Beyond Correlations: Toward a Causal Theory of War”, in International Studies Quarterly, 35 (3), pp 337-355. (35 pp) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600703?origin=crossref&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
- Kidder, Robert L. (2002), “Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies”, in June Starr and Mark Goodale, Practicing Ethnography in Law, Palgrave Macmillan, pp 87-107. (20 pp)
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Swift, A. & S. White (2008): “Political theory, social science, and real politics”, Political Theory Methods and Approaches. Oxford University Press", s. 49-69.
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Siobhán McInerney-Lankford, “Legal methodologies and human rights research: challenges and opportunities” in Andreassen, Bård A, Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (2017), Research Methods in Human Rights. A Handbook, London: Ed Elgar 2017.
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Steven L.B. Jensen and Roland Burke, “From the Normative to the transnational: methods in the study of human rights in history” in Andreassen, Bård A, Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (2017), Research Methods in Human Rights. A Handbook, London: Ed Elgar 2017.
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Simon Walker, “Challenges of human rights measurement” in Andreassen, Bård A, Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (2017), Research Methods in Human Rights. A Handbook, London: Ed Elgar 2017.