Bibliography Required readings:
Books:
Durham, Kirkham, Scott and Torfs (eds): Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues, Ashgate 2011:
- Gunn, Jeremy: “Religious Symbols in Public Schools: The Islamic Headscarf and the European Court on Human Rights Decision Sahin vs. Turkey” Chapter 7,pp 134-179, (45pp)
- Plesner, Ingvill T.: “The European Court on Human Rights: Between Fundamentalist and Liberal Secularism” Chapter 2 , pp. 72 – 91 (19pp)
Franseco Francioni and Martin Scheinin (eds.), Cultural Human Rights, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2008:
Fulltext:
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789047431732
- ?hren, Matthias, “Protecting People’s Cultural Rights: A Question of Properly Understanding the Notion of States and Nations?”, pp. 91-118 (28pp)
- Horváth, Enik?, Cultural Identity and Legal Status :Or the return of the Right to Have (Particular) Rights, pp.169-191(23pp)
- Scheinin, Martin, “The Right of a People to Enjoy its Culture: Towards a Nordic Saami Rights Convention”, pp. 151-168 (18pp)
Anne Hellum and Hege Skeie (ed): "Demokrati, religionsfrihet og kvinners rettigheter. Avslutningsrapport 2004-2008", Kvinnerettslig skriftserie nr. 77 (2009), Avd. for Kvinnerett, Universitet i Oslo: http://www.jus.uio.no/ior/forskning/omrader/kvinnerett/publikasjoner/skriftserien/77_DEMROK.html :
- Borchgreving, Tordis: “The Hijab Debate and the Liberal Dilemma” I Tidsskrift for kj?nnsforskning (2) 2007, KILDEN 2007, pp. 39 – 54 (25pp).
- Ketscher, Kirsten: “Cultural Rights and Religious Rights” in Religious Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe. Where to draw the line? Intersentia 2007, pp. 219 –237 (18pp).
- Skeie, Hege: “Religious Exemptions to Equality” in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10 (4) 2007, Taylor & Francis 2007, pp. 471-490 (19pp). Fulltext: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230701660188
Marc Weller (ed.), Universal Minority Rights. A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007:
- Hannikainen, Lauri, “Legal Nature of Minority Rights as Part of Human Rights, Limitations, Derogations and Interpretative Statements”, pp. 27-48 (22pp).
- Hannum, Hurst, “The Concept and Definition of Minorities”, pp. 49-73 (25pp).
- De Varennes, Fernand, “Linguistic Identity and Language Rights”, pp. 253-323(71pp).
- Weller, Marc, “Effective Participation of Minorities in Public Life”, pp. 477-516(40pp).
Articles:
- Christoffersen, Lisbet: “Church Autonomy in Nordic Law” in Christoffersen, Modéer, Andersen (eds) Law & Religion in the 21st Century: Nordic perspectives, DJ?F Publishing, Copenhagen 2010, pp. 563 – 592 (29pp). (to be distributed in class)
- Colbran, Nicola, “Realities and Challenges in Realising Freedom of Religion and Belief in Indonesia, The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 14, No. 5 (2010), pp 678-704 Fulltext: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642980903155166
- Durham, Cole, “The Right to Autonomy in Religious Affairs: A Comparative View” in Church Autonomy, Gerhard Robbers (ed), Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2001, pp. 683 – 714 (31pp). http://www.strasbourgconsortium.org/content/blurb/files/Chapter%2033.%20Durham.pdf
- Ekern, Stener “The Production of Autonomy: Leadership and Community in Mayan Guatemala”, Journal of Latin American Studies,Vol 43, Issue 1, February, 2011, pp 93-119 (23pp). Fulltext: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstractfromPage=online&aid=8243968&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0022216X1000180X
- Lundberg, Maria; Zhou, Yong, “Hunting-Prohibitionin the Hunters Autonomous Area: Legal Rights of the Oroqen People and the Implementation of the Regional National Autonomy Law”, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2009, pp. 349-397(49pp) Fulltext: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/138819009x12474964197638
TOTAL: 510pp
Students will be required to prepare six main cases for presentation and discussions in class. In addition, a number of cases will be referred to for the discussion of the content of the rights which are discussed. Some of these cases are listed below.
Cases/views:Part I: Main cases - Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious education: (Human Rights Committee): Leirv?g v. Norway, UN. Doc.CCPR/C/82/D/1155/2003(2004)
Church autonomy:
(European Court of Human Rights): Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and Others v. Moldova (Appl. No. 45701/99) Judgment 13 December 2001.
Individual practice of religion/religious symbols:
(European Court of Human Rights): Leyla ?ahin v. Turkey, (Appl. No. 44774/98) Grand Chamber Judgment 10 November 2005
Part II: Main and additional cases – Minority and Indigenous People’s Rights
Main case 1:
(Human Rights Committee): Chief Bernard Ominayak and the Lubicon Lake Band v. Canada, UN Doc. ICCPR/C/38/D/167/1984 (1990)
Additional cases:
- (Human Rights Committee): Diergardt v. Namibia, UN Doc. CCPR/C/69/D/760/1997 (2000)
- (Human Rights Committee): Lovelace v. Canada, UN Doc. ICCPR/C/13/D/24,1977 (1981)
- Canadian Supreme Court: re Secession of Quebec [1998] 2.S.C.R. 217. Opinion on the legality of the secession of Quebec according to Canadian and international law
Main case 2:
- (Human Rights Committee): ?ngela Poma Poma v.Peru, UN Doc. CCPR/C/95/D/1457/2006(2009)
Additional cases:
- (Human Rights Committee): Apirana Mahuika et al. v. New Zealand, UN Doc.CCPR/C/70/D/547/1993 (2000)
- (Human Rights Committee): Ilmari L?nsman et. al. v. Finland, UN Doc. CCPR/C/52/D/511/1992 (1994)
- (Human Rights Committee): Kitok v. Sweden, UN Doc. ICCPR/C/33/D/197/1985 (1988)
Main case 3:
(Human Rights Committee): Ballentyne, Davidson and McIntyre v. Canada, UN Doc. CCPR/C/47/D/359/1989 (1993)
Additional cases:
- (Human Rights Committee): Ignatane v. Latvia, UN Doc. CCPR/C/72/D/884/1999 (2001)
- (European Court of Human Rights): Podkolzina v. Latvia, (Appl. No. 46726/99) Judgment of 9 April 2002.
- (European Court of Human Rights): Case “relating to certain aspects of the laws on the use of language in education in Belgium”(Appl. No. 1474/62, 1677/62, 1691/62, 1769/62, 1994/63, 2126/64) Judgment 23 July 1968, Ser. A, No.6.
- (European Court of Human Rights): Cyprus v. Turkey ( Appl. no. 25781/94) Judgment (Grand Chamber) of 10 May 2001.
Recommended readings:
Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Okin, Susan: “Introduction” in J. Cohen, M. Howard (eds) Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton Univerisity Press, 1999.
Patten, Alan, “The rights of internal linguistic minorities”, in Minorities within Minorities. Equality, Rights and Diversity, Avigial Eisenberg and Jeff Spinner-Halev (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 135-154.(20pp)
Patten, Alan and Kymlika, Will, “Introduction: Language Rights and Political Theory: Context, Issues and Approaches”, in Language Rights and Political Theory, Will Kymlika and Alan Patten (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp.1-51 (51pp)
Réaume, Denise G., “Beyond Personality: The Territorial and Personal Principles of Language Policy Reconsidered”, in Language Rights and Political Theory, Will Kymlika and Alan Patten (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 271-295 (25pp)