Course content:
- Introduction
- Methods in international human rights law
- Human rights in the social sciences
Required reading:
*(1) Methods in international human rights law:
Books marked with an * can be purchased from Akademika bookstore. Compendium: The rest of the articles are in a compendium which can be purchased in Akademika bookstore.
Boyle, Alan, “Soft Law in International Law-Making”, in International Law. 2nd edition, Malcolm D. Evans (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.141-158 (18 pp).
* Cassese, Antonio, International Law, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, Chapter 11: “The Hierarchy of Rules in International Law: The role of Jus Cogens”; Chapter 12: “The Implementation of International Rules within National Systems”, pp. 198-212, 213-237 (40 pp).
* Higgins, Rosalyn, Problems and Process. International Law and How We Use It, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, Chapter 1-3: “The Nature and Function of International Law, Sources of International Law: Provenance and Problems, Participants in the International Legal System”; Chapter 6-7: “Responding to Individual Needs: Human Rights, Self-Determination”, pp. 1-55, 95-128 (89 pp).
Slaughter, Anne-Marie and Ratner, Steven, “Symposium on Method in International Law. Appraising the Methods of International Law: A Prospectus for Readers”, AJIL, 1999, Vol. 93, No.2, pp. 291-423 (133 pp).
Thirlway, Hugh, “The Sources of International Law”, in International Law. 2nd edition, Malcolm D. Evans (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.115-140 (26 pp).
Total: 306 pp.
(2) Human rights in the social sciences:
Andreassen, B. A., “Political Science, Human Rights and the Right to Food Discourse”, in Food and Human Rights Development, Eide, Wenche Barth and Kracht, Uwe (eds.), Antwerpen - Oxford, Intersentia, 2005, pp. 81-105 (24 pp.)
* Freeman, Michael, Human rights: An interdisciplinary approach, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002:32-100. (67 pp.)
* Landman, Todd, Protecting Human Rights. A Comparative Study, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press 2005. (Chapters 1-7, 171 pp).
UNDP, Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDS Programming: A User’s Guide, New York: UNDP 2006. (23 pp.).
In total: 597 pp.