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. ”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)

 

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