Articles marked with an asterisc (*) are compiled in a compendium which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore (Domus Nova), Law faculty.
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Required reading:
- Amit, Vered, “Reconceptualising Community” in Vered Amit (ed.) Realizing Community. Concepts, social relationships and sentiments. London: Routledge 2002, pp 1-19. (19 pp.). http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,040469603&vid=UBO
- Butenschøn, Nils, “State, Power and Citizenship in the Middle East. A Theoretical Introduction” in Nils A. Butenschøn, Uri Davis, Manuel Hassassian (eds.), Citizenship and the State in the Middle East, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 3-27. (25 pp.) http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=C9TkD3ugwEUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=nils+butensch%C3%B6n&ots=5HAUerJ4td&sig=pZFHo7QAapQYRMd2QJ9JHItD8_s#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Castellino, Joshua, “Territorial integrity and the ‘right’ to self-determination: An examination of the conceptual tools”, Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 2008, Vol. 33, 2, pp 503-58. (55 pp.) http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?page=503&handle=hein.journals%2Fbjil33&collection=journals
- *Chanock, Martin, “Culture and human rights: orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity”, in Mahmood Mamdani (ed.), Beyond Rights Talk and Cultural Talks. Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture, Cape Town: David Phillips Publishers, 2000, ch 1. (22 pp.)
- *Derman, Bill and Anne Hellum. “Land, Identity and Violence in Zimbabwe", in Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard and Espen Sjaastad(eds.), Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa, James Curry 2007, pp 161-186. (25 pp.)
- *Eide, Asbjørn, “Citizenship and International Human Rights Law” in Nils A. Butenschøn, Uri Davis, Manuel Hassassian (eds.), Citizenship and the State in the Middle East, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 88-122. (35 pp.)
- *Eide, Asbjørn, “Cultural Autonomy: Concepts, Content, History and Role in the World Order”, in Markku Suksu (ed.), Autonomy: Applications and Implications, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998, pp. 251-276. (26 pp.)
- *Ekern, Stener, “Visions of the Right Order: Contrasts between Mayan Communitarian Law in Guatemala and International Human Rights Law” in Lone Lindholt and Sten Schaumberg-Müller (eds.), Human Rights in development Yearbook 2003. Human Rights and Local/Living Law, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005, pp 265-290. (25 pp.)
- Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Ethnicity & Nationalism : Anthropological Perspectives, 3rd edition, London: Pluto Press 2010, ch 2-6, pp. 23-146. (123 pp.) http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,120156407&vid=UBO
- *Gellner, David, “From group rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and identity” in Cowan, Jane K, Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson: Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 177-200. (23 pp).
- Ghai, Yash, “Ethnicity and Autonomy: A Framework for Analysis”, in Yash Ghai (ed.), Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 1-26. (26 pp.) http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,123447356&vid=UBO
- Ghai, Yash, Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Ethnic Diversity, Prepared for World Justice Forum,Vienna, July 2-5, 2008, (32 pp.) http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/pdf/20080924033607_large.pdf
- Kymlicka, Will, “Modernity and National Identity”, in Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorowski (eds.), Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000, pp. 11-41. (31 pp.) http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlSearch.do?institution=UBO&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,04055676x&vid=UBO
- *Lijphart, A, “Majority rule versus democracy in deeply divided societies”, Politikon, vol. 4, 1977, no. 2, pp. 113-126. (14 pp.)
- Mancini, Susana, “Rethinking the boundaries of democratic secession: Liberalism, nationalism, and the right of minorities to self-determination, International Journal of Constitutional Law, July-October 2008, (26 pp.) http://icon.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/3-4/553.full.pdf+html
- Robinson, Darryl, "Serving the interests of justice: Amnesties, truth commissions and the International Criminal Court", European Journal of International Law 14 (2003), pp 481-505 (24 pp). http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/3/481.pdf
- *Scheinin, Martin, “How to Resolve Conflicts between Individual and Collective Rights?”, in Martin Scheinin and Reetta Toivanen (eds.), Rethinking Non-Discrimination and Minority Rights, Åbo/Turku: Institute for Humar Rights, Åbo Akademi, 2004, pp 2189-38. (20 pp).
- Weller, Marc, “Settling self-determination conflicts: Recent developments” European Journal of International Law, February 2009, (49 pp.) http://www.swetswise.com/FullTextProxy/swproxy?url=http%3A%2F%2Fejil.oxfordjournals.org%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F20%2F1%2F111.pdf&ts=1302877681027&cs=3469584268&userName=3117227.ipdirect&emCondId=3117227&articleID=41548242&yevoID=2530813&titleID=72078&referer=1&remoteAddr=129.240.226.34&hostType=PRO&swsSessionId=2shN5RuY3+FgubVEhvYGLw__.pasc2
- *van Zyl, Paul, "Promoting Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies", in Alan Bryden and Heiner Hänggi (eds.), Security Governance in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Geneva 2005, pp 209-222 (13 pp). http://www.dcaf.ch/Publications/Security-Governance-in-Post-Conflict-Peacebuilding
- Zyberi, Gentian, “Self-determination through the lens of the International Court of Justice”, Netherlands International Law Review, vol. LVI (2009) pp 429-453. (24 pp.). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6864144&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0165070X0900429X
Total: 637 pp