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. ”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)
3. ”Law and Ideology in the Third Reich - judges and the courts 1933-45”
Graver, Hans Petter (2018): “Judicial Independence Under Authoritarian Rule: An Institutional Approach to the Legal Tradition of the West”, Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, First Online: 27 February 2018 (23 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) (Canvas)
Fraenkel, Ernst, (1941) The Dual State A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship Chapter II The Prerogative State pp. 3-64, (61 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) (Canvas), (35 pages)
5. "Law and the Legal System in Communist Dictatorships”
Kirchheimer, Otto, (1961) Political Justice The Use of Legal Procedure for Political Ends Chapter VII Democratic Centralism pp. 259-303 (Canvas) (44 pages)
Graver, Hans Petter (2019), Law and the Russian Revolution – A Comparison to the Nazi Approach to Law (Canvas) (18 pages)
6. “Rule of Law backsliding in Poland”
Fryderyk Zoll and Leah Wortham, Judicial Independence and Accountability: Withstanding Political Stress in Poland, 42 Fordham Int'l L.J. 875 (2019). (74 pages)
Marcin Matczak "Poland: From Paradigm to Pariah? Facts and interpretationsof Polish Constitutional crisis" 2018.
(21 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?”
David P. Forsythe “Hard times for human rights”, Journal of Human Rights, 16:2, 242-253 (11 pages) 2017
Alexandra Valeria Huneeus and Mikael Madsen (2018): “Between Universalism and Regional Law and Politics: A Comparative History of the American, European and African Human Rights Systems”, International Journal of Constitutional Law (Forthcoming), (35 pages),
Hopgood, Stephen (2013): The Endtimes of Human Rights. Cornell University Press. (Preface + chapter 1) (32 pages) (Canvas)
Malcolm Langford “Critiques of Human Rights”, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 14:69-89, 2018: (23 pages)
Altogether:
766 pages
Recommended supplementary reading
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)
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)