Syllabus/achievement requirements

1. “Law, Ideology and Human Rights Violations: Introduction and Overview”

Snyder, Timothy (2017):  On Tyranny. Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Penguin Random House  (126 pages)

Waldron, Jeremy (2016). “The Rule of Law.” In: Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (21 pages).

 

2. ”Law and Ideology in the Third Reich - judges and the courts 1933-45”

Graver, Hans Petter (2015): Judges Against Justice. On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack. Springer 2015: Kapittel 4 og 5 (s. 53-112): ).(69 pages)

Rachlin, Robert D. (2013):  Rolend Freisler and the Volksgerichtshof. The Court as an Instrument of Terror. I: Alan E. Steinweis and Robrt D. Rachlin (eds) The Law in Nazi Germany. Berghahn.  pp. 63-87 (24 pages) (Fronter)

 

3. ”Bureaucracy, Modernity and the Holocaust – can legal authority produce genocide?”

Bauman, Zygmunt (1988) : “Sociology after the Holocaust”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 469-497: (30 pages)

Smith, Peter Scharff (2016) : “Dehumanization, social contact and techniques of Othering - combining the lessons from Holocaust studies and prison research” I: Anna Eriksson (ed.) Punishing the Other: The social production of immorality revisited, Routledge.  (31 pages)

Wildt, Michael  (2005) “The Spirit of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)."  Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions Vol. 6 , Iss. 3.: (16 pages)

 

4. “The Nuremberg Trials and the Rise of the International Human Rights Regime”

Alston, Philip (2013): "Does the Past Matter."  Harvard Law Review, vol. 126, (p. 2043-81) (38 pages)

Levy, Daniel and Natan Sznaider (2004):  “The institutionalization of  cosmopolitan morality: the Holocaust and human rights.”  Journal of Human Rights, VOL. 3, NO. 2 (June 2004), 143–157: (14 pages).

Smeulens, Alette and Fred Grünfeld (2011):  International Crimes and Other Gross Human Rights Violations.  Martinus N.P.  chapter 1 (s. 3-38) (Fronter), (35 pages)

 

5. "Law and the Legal System in Communist Dictatorships”

Cook, Alexander C. (2016). “Introduction”, In: The Cultural Revolution on Trial. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (34 pages)

Kolakowski, Leszek (1983). “Marxism and Human Rights.”  Daedalus, Vol. 112, No. 4 (12 pages).

Ramsey, Peter (2014). “Pashukanis and Public Protection.” In:  Dubber (ed) Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press (20 pages).

 

6. “The Apartheid-system: Natural Law versus Legal Positivism”

Dyzenhaus, David (1999). “With the benefit of hindsight”. University of Toronto (45 pages)  Fronter

Dyzenhaus, David (2009). “Legality in a time of emergency.” In: The Constitution of Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (49 pages)

 

7. "Illegality, extra-legality, and the transformation of law in the post-911 condition"

Aradau, Claudia (2007):  "Law transformed: Guantánamo and the ‘other’ exception."  Third World Quarterly 28.3 (2007): 489-501. (12 pages)

Johns, Fleur (2013:  Non-legality in International Law: Unruly Law. Vol. 96. Cambridge University Press.  Chapter 2: "Illegality and the torture memos" (36 pages) Chapter 3: "Black holes and the outside within: extra-legality in international law" (39 pages)

 

8. “The “Endtimes” of Human Rights - the success, crisis, or failure of the International Human Rights Regime?”

Hopgood, Stephen  (2013): The Endtimes of Human Rights. Cornell University Press. (Preface + chapter 1) (32 pages) (Fronter)

Lettinga, Doutje & Lars van Troost (ed.) (2014):  Debating  The Endtimes  of Human Rights. Activism and Institutions in a Neo-Westphalian World   The Strategic Studies Project (SSP): Amnesty International Netherlands, (s. 7-18; 47-51; 61-67). (23 pages)

Rask Madsen, Michael (2016): ”The Challenging Authority of the European Court of Human Rights: From Cold War Legal Diplomacy to the Brighton Declaration and Backlash  Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79: 141, no. 1, 2016. (38 pages)

 

Total: 744 pages

 

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