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!