Syllabus/achievement requirements

The book can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law faculty (Domus Nova building).

This course requires the completion of an academic paper.

Books, articles, cases and other documents listed up in this reading list may be useful for your paper.

List of instruments used in this course

• UN Resolution 1373
• Inter American Convention Against Terrorism
• OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism
• EU Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism
• SAARC Convention
• UDHR Art. 3
• CCPR, Arts. 4, 6 & 9
• CESCR Art. 5
• HRC General Comment 39
• Paris Minimum Standards of Human Rights Norms in a State of Emergency
• Siracusa Principles on the limitation and derogation of CCPR
• CAT, Articles 1 & 3 ; ICCPR, Art. 7
• Common Articles 2 and 3 to Geneva Conventions of 1949
• Articles 4 and 5 of Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949
• Articles 1 and 43- 45 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977
• Articles 43- 45 and 50-51 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977
• Article 13 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of Non-International Armed Conflict (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977

Required reading

1. Cases and readings

Students will be expected to analyze comparative cases from national tribunals and international human rights monitors.

Links to the articles are available from the Lecture outline on the HUMR5503 webpage.

Cases

• Delgado Paez v. Colombia, HRC 1990
• Weinberger v. Uruguay, HRC 1978
• Busyo et. Al. v. Congo HRC (2003)
• Silva v. Uruguay, HRC (1981)
• The Greek Case, Eur. Comm. H.R. (1969)
• Adolfo Drescher Caldas v. Urugay, HRC 1990
• Antti Vuolanne v. Finland, HRC 1989
• CAT Agiza Case
• Prosecutor v Tadic ICTY Decision on the Defence Motion for Interlocutory Appeal on Jurisdiction (Appeals Chamber) paras. 65-70
• Prosecutor v. Galic, paras. 63-138 (Trial Judgement) and paras. 79-109 (Appeal Judgement)
• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al., pp. 20-73
• Boumediene et al. v. Bush et al., pp. 8-70
• Ross v. Canada, 1997 HRC 736 (2000)
• Faurisson v. France, 1993 HRC 550 (1996)
• Concluding Observation on Guinea, HRC (1993)
• Compulsory Membership in an Association Prescribed by Law for the Practice of Journalism, Inter-American Court of HR Advisory Opinion OC-5/85 (1985)
• Jong-Kyu Sohn v. Republic of Korea, 1992 HRC 518 (1995)

Pleadings

• Joint Defence Motion to Dismiss All Charges for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction (Absence of Armed Conflict) 3 November 2008 (Yet to be ruled on given the Commission Ruling of 12 June 2009 granting Prosecution Motion for Additional 120-Day Continuance and current further continuance on substantive matters, yet not discovery)
• In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation Respondent¡¯s Memorandum Regarding the Government¡¯s Detention Authority Relative to Detainees Held at Guantanamo Bay 13 March 2009 District Court for the District of Columbia

Government Documents

• Legality of the Use of Military Commissions to Try Terrorists November 6 2001 Memorandum for the Counsel to the President (Office of Legal Counsel US Department of Justice
• "Protected Person" Status in Occupied Iraq Under the Fourth Geneva Convention March 18 2004 Memorandum for the Counsel to the President (Office of Legal Counsel US Department of Justice

United Nations

Security Council Resolutions:

• 1269 on the responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security
• 1373 on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts
• 1851 on the situation in Somalia

ICRC

• Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law International Review of the Red Cross Vol. 90 No. 872 December 2008 991-1047

2. Literature

Main book

- Duffy, Helen, The War on Terror and the Framework of International Law, Cambridge 2007.

Chapter 2 (17-69) , chapter 4 (esp. pp. 73-117) chapter 6 (pages 217-273), chapter 7( pp.274-347, 364-365), chapter 8 (esp. pp. 430-442). Pages in total: 241 pp.

Articles

• Karima Bennoune, ¡°Terror/Torture¡±, 26 Berkeley Journal of International Law 1 2008, 1-62 [62 pp]

• Dr. Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad, The Torturing Debate on Torture 29 Northern Illinois U. Law Review 1 (2008), 1-38 [38 pp]

• Torture Memos

• Louis Fisher, Extraordinary Rendition : The Price of Secrecy, 57 American U. Law Review 1404 (June 2008), 1405-1452 [47 pp]

• Corn and Jensen, Transnational Armed Conflict: A "Principled" Approach to the Regualtion of Counter-Terrorism Combat Operations 42 Israel Law Review (2009) pages 1-34 [34 pp]

• Sassoli, M. Transnational Armed Groups and International Humanitarian Law HCPR Occsaional Paper Series Winter 2006 No. 6, 1-34 [34 pp]

• Jinks, D. September 11 and the Laws of War 28 Yale Journal International Law 15 (2003) pages 1-49 [49 pp]

• Rona Interesting Times for International Humanitarian Law Fletcher Forum of World Affairs Vol 27:2 Summer Fall (2003) , 55-74 [19 pp]

• Direct Participation in Hostilities" and 21st Century Armed Conflict, in Crisis Management and Humanitarian Protection: Festschrift fur Dieter Fleck (Berlin: BWV, Horst Fischer et al eds., 2004), at 505-529 [25 pp].

• Bradley, C.A. and Goldsmith, J.L. Congressional Authorisation and the War on Terrorism Harvard Law Review 118 Harvard Law Review No 7. (2005) pp 2047-2133 [87 pp]

• Kontorovich, E. ¡°Guantanamo on the Sea¡± The Difficulties of Prosecuting Pirates and Terrorists Northwestern University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Series No.09-10 (Due to be published California Law Review Vol. 98 February 2010) pages 1-39 [39 pp]

• Treves, T. Piracy, Law of the Sea, and the Use of Force: Developments off the Coast of Somalia European Journal of International Law (2009) Vol. 20 No.2, 399-414 [15 pp]

• Mark A. Drumbl, Transnational Terrorist Financing: Criminal and Civil Perspectives, 9 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL (2008), pp. 933-943 [10 pp]

• Philippe Sands, Torture Teams: Uncovering War Crimes in the Land of the Free (Penguin 2009), pp. 211-294 [83 pp]

Pages in total: 542 pp.

Optional reading

• Commentaries to Articles from Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol I

• Antonio Cassese, Terrorism is Also Disrupting Some Crucial Legal Categories of International Law 12 EJIL (2001) 993-1001

• Prosecutor v Tadic ICTY Appeal Judgment paragraphs 83-145

• Prosecutor v Thomas Lunanga Dyilo ICC Decision on the Confirmation of Charges paragraphs 200-237

• Prosecutor v. Galic (Trial Judgement), Judge Nieto-Navia's separate and partially dissenting opinion, paras. 108-113

• Marco Sassoli, Terrorism and War 4 JICL (2006) 959-981

• Ingrid Detter The Law of War and Illegal Combatants 75 GWLR 5-6 (2007) 1049-1104

• US Department of Justice Memorandum of 22 January 02

• White House Memoradum of 7 February 2002

• Commentaries to Articles from Additional Protocols I and II - and follow respective links

• ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen ¡°High Value Detainees¡± in CIA Custody (in particular Section 4)

• Humanitarian Law and Direct Participation in Hostilities by Private Contractors or Civilian Employees 5 Chicago Journal of International Law 511-546 (2005)

• Simpson, G. Law War and Crime Chapter 7

• Halberstam, M. Terrorism on the High Seas: The Achille Lauro, Piracy and the IMO Convention on Maritime Safety 82 American Journal of International Law (1988) 269-310

• SUA Convention Articles 3-7

• Duffy, chap. 4 (pp. 117-143)

• Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas, Terrorist Financing: Explaining Government Responses, in TERRORIST FINANCING AND STATE RESPONSES: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, pp. 282-296 (2007)

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al., Justice Kennedy's partially concurring opinion

• Hamdan v. Rumsfeld et al., Justice Thomas' dissenting opinion

• Boumediene et al. v. Bush et al., Justice Robert's dissenting opinion

• Boumediene et al. v. Bush et al., Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion

• Duffy, chap. 8 (esp. pp. 379-430)

• United States of America v. Josef Altstoetter et al. ("The Justice Case"), pp. 1081-1177

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