Syllabus/achievement requirements

Articles and extraits from books 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

Books:

• Michelin R. Ishay. The History of Human Rights. From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 367 pp.

• Todd Landman, Studying Human Rights. London: Routledge 2006, ch 1-5, pp 8-92 & 8, pp 126-139 (106 pp).

• James Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 2007. Pp 7-189 (182 pp).

• Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp, and Kathryn Sikkink (eds), The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 1999, ch 1-2, pp 1-77 & 8, 234-278 (123 pp).

Articles:

• Charles Beitz. The Idea of Human Rights, Oxford 2009, ch 1, pp 1-13 & 5, pp 96-127 (38 pp).

• Jack Donnelly, ¡®Both universal and relative. A reply to Goodhart¡¯, Human Rights Quarterly 30, 2008, pp 194-204 (20 pp).

• Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism (2nd edition), Pluto Press, 2002, ch 7-8, pp. 121-161 (40 pp).

• Jack Goody. The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. "Introduction¡± and Ch 1 (¡°Who stole what? Time and space¡± ), 25 pp.

• Martha C. Nussbaum: ¡°The Role of Religion¡± in Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 167-206 (38 pp).

• Todd Landman, in Todd Landmann, Issues and methods in Comparative Politics. An Introduction, Routledge 2003, Ch 9 ¡± pp 201-222. (20 pp)

• Tore Lindholm, ¡®Philosophical and Religious Justifications of Freedom of Religion or Belief¡¯ in Tore Lindholm, W. Cole Durham, Jr. & Bahia G. Tahzib-Lie (eds.) Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2004, pp 19-61 (42 pp).

• Teruhisa Se and Rie Karatsu, A conception of human rights based on Japanese culture: promoting cross-cultural debates, Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2004, pp. 269-289.

• Henry Shue, Basic Rights. Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Ch. 1-2, pp. 13-64 (51 pp.).

Total: 1.074 pp.

Recommended (suggested) reading:

• S. James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples in International Law (2nd edition), Oxford University Press 2004, Introduction & Ch 1, pp 3-48 (45 pp).

• B?rd A Andreassen, ¡°Political Science, Human Rights and the right to Food Discourse¡± in Wenche Barth Eide & Uwe Kracht (eds.), Food and human Rights in Development. Evolving Issues and Emerging Applications. Antwerp: Intersentia 2007. Pp. 81-106. (23 pp.)

• Raza Ashari. ¡°On Historiography of Human Rights: Reflections on Paul Gordon Lauren¡¯s The Evolution of International Human Rights. Vision Seen¡± in Human Rights Quarterly Volume 29, No. 1 (February 2007).

• Gudmundur Alfredssson and Asbj?rn Eide (eds). The Universal Declaration of Human right. A common standard of Achievement. Hague: Martifcn Nijhoff. 1999.

• Brian Barry: Liberal States and Illiberal Religions¡± in Culture and Equality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001: 155-193 (38 pp).

• Jane F. Collier, ¡®Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs¡¯, June Starr and Mark Goodale (eds), Practicing Ethnography in Law. Palgrave Macmillan 2002, ch 4, pp. 72-86 (14 pp.).

• Jane K. Cowan, Marie-B¨¦n¨¦dicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, ¡®Introduction¡¯ in Culture and rights. Anthropological Perspectives. Cambridge University Press 2001, ch 1, pp 1-26 (25 pp).

• Jack Donnelly, ¡®The relative universality of Human Rights¡¯, Human Rights Quarterly 29, 2007, pp 281-306 (25 pp).

• David P. Forsythe, Human rights in International Relations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 (2nd edition).

• Yash Ghai, Autonomy and Ethnicity. Negotiating Competing Claims in Multiethnic States, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, ch. 1: ¡®Ethnicity and Autonomy¡¯, pp 1-26 (25 pp).

• Mary Ann Glendon. A World Made New. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House, 2001.

• Michael Goodhart, ¡®Neither relative nor universal. A response to Donnelly¡¯, Human Rights Quarterly 30, 2008, pp 183-193 (10 pp).

• Johannes Morsink. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Origins, Drafting and Intent. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press 1999.

• Samual Moyn. The Last Utopia. Human Rights in History. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

• Paul Gordon Lauren. The Evolution of International Human Rights. Visions Seen. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania University Press, 2003

• Pedro Pitarch, ¡®The labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights¡¯ Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed ans Xochitl Leyva Solano (eds), Human Rights in the Maya Region. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008, ch. 4, pp 91-122 (31 pp).

• Ingvill Plesner, ¡°Freedom of religion or belief: A quest for state neutrality?¡±, PhD dissertation, University of Oslo, 2008, Unipub 2008, ch 3.2, pp 83-129 (46 pp).

• Teruhisa Se and Rie Karatsu. ¡±A conception of human rights based on Japanese culture: promoting cross-cultural debates¡±, Journal of Human Rights, Vol 3, Issue 3, 2004, pp 269-289.