Required reading:
All books can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore, Law faculty. Compendium: The articles are compiled in a compendium which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore, Law faculty.
(a) Books:
- Lynn P Nygaard, Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2008. (195 pp).
- Landman, Todd, Protecting Human Rights. A Comparative Study, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005, chs 1-7 (170 pp.)
- McConville, Mike and Wing Hong Chui, Research Methods for Law, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2007 (239 pp.)
- Trachtenberg, Mark, The Craft of International History: A guide to method, Princeton University Press, 2006, chs 1-5, (161 pp.)
(b) Articles:
- Elster: Explaining Social Behaviour: More Nuts and Bolts. Cambridge 2007, pp 1-66. (66 pp.)
- Dessler, David: "Beyond Correlations: Toward a Causal Theory of War”, Int. Studies Quarterly 35, 3 (1991) pp 119-154 (40 pp.)
- Dworkin, Ronald: ‘Law, Philosophy and Interpretation’ in Atria, Fernando and D. Neil MacCormick Law and Legal Interpretation, Ashgate, 2003, ch 1. Pp. 463-475
- Collier, Jane F., ‘Analyzing Witchcraft Beliefs’, in June Starr and Mark Goodale, Practicing Ethnography in Law, Palgrave Macmillan 2002, pp 72-86 (14 pp.)
- Cowan, Jane K., Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, ‘Introduction’ in Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 1-26 (26 pp.)
- Chamberlin, Bill F., Popescu, Cristina., Weigold, Michael F. and Laughner, Nissa: "Merging Legal Research and Social Science Methodologies: Comparing State Access Laws" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, Online., pp 1-31 (31 pp.)
- Risse, Thomas and Kathryn Sikkink, ‘The socialization of international human rights norms into domestic practices. Introduction’ in Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink, The Power of Human Rights. International Norms and Domestic Change, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp 1-38 (38 pp.)
- UNDP, Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming: A User’s Guide, New York: UNDP 2006, (23 pp.)
- Ian Brownlie: Principles of Public International Law, 7th Ed, 2008, pp. 3 – 29 and 630 – 638 (34 pp.)
- Robben, Antonius C.G.M., ‘The Politics of Truth and Emotions among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence’ in Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Fieldwork under fire: Contemporary studies of violence and survival, California University Press 1995, pp 81-103 (22 pp.)
- Kidder, Robert L., ‘Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies’ in June Starr and Mark Goodale, Practicing Ethnography in Law, Palgrave Macmillan 2002, pp 87-107 (20 pp.)
- Jeremy Waldron, ‘The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review’, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115 (2006), pp. 1346-1406 (60 pp.)
- BM Morgan, 'Turning Off the Tap: Urban Water Service Delivery and the Social Construction of Global Administrative Law', European Journal of International Law, 17 (1), 2006. pp. 215-247 (32 pp.)
- Human Rights Watch, Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza, 25 March 2009, pp 1-66 (66 pp.)
Pages in total: 1249 pp.
Recommended reading:
- Edward Anderson and Malcolm Langford, ‘Testing the fiscal capacity defence: assessing compliance with the right to water and sanitation with econometric modelling’ in The Right to Water and Sanitation in Theory and Practice: Drawing from a Deeper Well? (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming autumn 2009).
- Beth A. Simmons, "Should States Ratify? Process and Consequences of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR" in "Perspectives on a New Complaint and Inquiry Procedure: The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", Nordic Journal of Human RightsVol. 27, No.1 (2009), pp. 64-81 available atwww.humanrights.uio.no/forskning/publikasjoner/ntmr/2009/1/innhold.html