HUMR5508 - Spring 2020

Syllabus/achievement requirements

Bibliography

REQUIRED READINGS:

Ashraph, Sareta, “Acts of Annihilation, The role of gender in the commission of the crime of genocide”, Confluence Méditerranée 2017/4 (No 103). Pp. 15-29 (13pp) (available in Canvas)

Banda, Fareda and Christine Chinkin, “Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples”, Minority Rights Group International, 2004. Pp.4-28 (25pp) http://www.mafhoum.com/press7/207S27.pdf

Beyond Killing: Gender, Genocide and Obligations under International Law, Global Justice Center, Dec 2018, (60pp) http://globaljusticecenter.net/files/Gender-and-Genocide-Whitepaper-FINAL.pdf

Bielefeldt, Heiner, “Part. 3 Vulnerable groups. 3.5.Minorities” in: Heiner Bielefeldt, Nazila Ghanea, Michael Wiener, Freedom of Religion or Belief:  An International Law Commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 439-465  (27pp) http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law/9780198703983.001.0001/law-9780198703983

Dunbar Ortiz, Roxanne, et.al. Indigenous Peoples‘ Rights in International Law. Emergence and Application. A book in honour of Asbj?rn Eide at eighty, Kautokeino & Copenhagen: Galdu & IWGIA 2015:

  • Ndahinda, Felix Mukwiza, “ The Future of Indigenous Rights in Africa: Debating Inclusiveness and Empowerement of Collective Identities”, pp. 370-391 (22pp)
  • Zhou, Yong, “The Chinese Dilemma: Institutionalizing Peoples’ Rights in the Nation-Party-State Building Process”, pp. 420-445 (26pp)

Gunn, Jeremy T. “Religious Symbols in Public Schools: The Islamic Headscarf and the European Court of Human Rights Decision in  Sahin v. Turkey” in Durham Cole W., Jr. Rik Torfs, David M. Kirkham and Christine Scott (eds), Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues, Farnham, England: Ashgate  2011, pp. 111-145, (35pp)

Eide, Asbj?rn, Jakob H M?ller and Ineta Ziemele (eds.) Making Peoples Heard. Essays in Honour of Gudmundur Alfredsson, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011

  • Hofmann, Rainer and Juri Alistair Gauthier “Indigenous Peoples and the Right to Development”, pp. 439-461(23pp)
  • Daes, Erica Irene A. Daez, “Principal Problems Regarding Indigenous Land Rights and Recent Endavours to Resolve Them, pp. 463-484(22pp)
  • Lundberg, Maria and Yong Zhou “Article 17 of China’s Regional National Autonomy Law: Its Implementation and Application”, pp. 609-626(18pp)

Foblets, Marie-Claire, Alidadi, Katayoun, Nielsen, J?rgen S.  and  Yanasmayan, Zeynep (eds), Belief, Law and Politics: What Future for a Secular Europe? , Farnham, England: Ashgate 2014

  • Bielefeldt, Heiner, “Freedom of Religion or Belief: Anachronistic in Europe?”, Ch.3, pp. 55-65 (11pp)
  • Eva Brems, Saila Ouald Chaib and Lourdes Peroni, “Improving Justice in the ‘Burqa Ban’ debates: Group Vulnerability And Procedural Justice”, Ch.29, pp.265-273(9pp)

Francioni, Francesco and Martin Scheinin, Cultural Human Rights, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill Academic Publishers, 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)
  • Mancini, Susanna and Bruno de Witte, “Language Rights As Cultural Rights: A European Perspective”, pp. 247-284(38pp)

Ghanea, Nazila and Alexandra Xanthaki (eds.), Minorities, Peoples and Self-Determination. Essays in Honour of Patrick Thornberry, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005:

  • Scheinin,  Martin “What are Indigenous Peoples?”, pp. 3-13(11pp)
  • Daes, Erica-Irene A., “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Land and Natural Resources”, pp. 75-91(17pp)

Hill, Mark, “Religious Symbolism and Conscientious Objection in the Workplace: An Evaluation of Strasbourg's Judgment in Eweida and others v United Kingdom”,  Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 15, Issue 02, pp 191-203 (13pp)

Lindholm, Tore “Freedom of Religion or Belief as a Human Right”,  in Mikalsen, Kjartan Koch, Erling Skjei  and Audun ?fsti (eds.) Modernity-Unity in Diversity? Essays in Honour of Helge H?ibraaten, Oslo: Novus Press, 2016: pp. 237-257(21pp)

Lundberg, Maria and Yong Zhou “Hunting-Prohibition in 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) http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/138819009x12474964197638

Milanovic, Marko “Sejdic & Finci V. Bosnia And Herzegovina. App.Nos.27996/06&34836/06”, The American Journal of International Law , Vol. 104, No. 4 (October 2010), pp. 636-641 (6pp) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/sejdic-finci-v-bosnia-and-herzegovina/E23CF13D5E961276C3E44D91E223261F

Shachar Ayelet, “Religion, State, and the Problem of Gender: New Modes of Citizenship and Governance in Diverse Societies”, (2005) 50 McGill L.J. 49(40pp)  http://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/userfiles/other/410530-1225240850_Shachar.pdf

Weller, Marc (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).

Xanthaki Alexandra (2016) “Against integration, for human rights” The International Journal of Human Rights, 20:6, pp. 815-838 (25pp)

TOT:697pp

BASIC TEXTS IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY

Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Okin, Susan: “Introduction” in Cohen, Joshua and Mathew Howard (eds) Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton University Press, 1999.

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

CASES AND VIEWS:

Part I: Main cases - Freedom of Religion and Belief

(European Court of Human Rights): Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and Others v. Moldova (Appl. No. 45701/99) Judgment 13 December 2001.

 (European Court of Human Rights): Leyla ?ahin v. Turkey, (Appl. No. 44774/98) Grand Chamber Judgment 10 November 2005.

(European Court of Human Rights): Lautsi and Others V. Italy (Application no. 30814/06) Grand Chamber Judgment 18 March 2011

(European Court of Human Rights): S.A.S. v. FRANCE(Application no. 43835/11)Grand Chamber Judgment, 1 July 2014

 (European Court of Human Rights): Eweida and others v. The United Kingdom (Appl. No. 48420/10, No. 59842/10, No. 51671/10 and No. 36516/10), Judgment 15 January 2013

Part II: Main cases – Minority and Indigenous People’s Rights

 (Human Rights Committee): Lovelace v. Canada, UN Doc. ICCPR/C/13/D/24,1977 (1981)

(Human Rights Committee): Chief Bernard Ominayak and the Lubicon Lake Band v. Canada, UN Doc. ICCPR/C/38/D/167/1984 (1990)

(Human Rights Committee): Ballentyne, Davidson and McIntyre v. Canada, UN Doc. CCPR/C/47/D/359/1989 (1993)

(Human Rights Committee): ?ngela Poma Poma v.Peru, UN Doc. CCPR/C/95/D/1457/2006(2009)

(Inter-American Court of Human Rights): Case of the Saramaka People v. Suriname, Judgment of November 28, 2007

(European Court of Human Rights): Sejdi? and Finci V. Bosnia And Herzegovina (Applications nos. 27996/06 and 34836/06) Judgment 22 December 2009

(International Court of Justice) Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar) Pending

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Bielefeldt, Heiner, Ghanea, Nazila and Michael Wiener, “The Underlying Principles of Freedom of Religion or Belief. Towards a Holistic Conception”  in: Heiner Bielefeldt, Nazila Ghanea, Michael Wiener, Freedom of Religion or Belief:  An International Law Commentary, pp. 1-40   (41pp) http://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law/9780198703983.001.0001/law-9780198703983

“Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ensuring the political participation of minorities”, Minority Rights Group International, Law and legal cases, https://minorityrights.org/law-and-legal-cases/finci-v-bosnia-and-herzegovina/

Durham Cole W., Jr. Rik Torfs, David M. Kirkham and Christine Scott (eds), Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues, Farnham, England: Ashgate  2011

  • Plesner, Ingvill T, “The European Court on Human Rights Between Fundamentalist and Liberal Secularism”, pp. 63-74(12pp)
  • Scheinin, Martin, “International Human Rights Law and the Islamic Headscarf: A Short Note on the Position of the European Court of Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee” pp. 83-86 (4pp)

Kymlika, Will and Alan Patten (eds.), Language Rights and Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003,

  • Laitin, David D and Rob Reich, “ A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice”, pp.80-104 (24pp).
  • Réaume, Denise G., “Beyond Personality: The Territorial and Personal Principles of Language Policy Reconsidered”, pp. 271-295 (25pp)
  • Rubin Marin, Ruth, “Language Rights: Exploring the Competing Rationales”, pp.52-79(27pp).

Lindholm, Tore,  Durham, W. Cole Jr. and Tahzib-Lie, Bahia G (eds) , Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief  A Deskbook, “Introduction” pp. xxxvii –xxxix; 220, 311-314, 363-365, 373-375, 385 (15p)

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)

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