The following reading list is common for the courses taught at bachelor’s and master’s level. Note that there are different achievement requirements:
- Master’s level (15 credits): A good understanding is required
- Bachelor’s level (10 credits): A general understanding is required
Course content
The legal protection of human rights on the international level is a concept that has developed largely since the end of World War II. The United Nations and regional organisations, most notably the Council of Europe, have taken the lead in ensuring respect for human rights through international legal and political mechanisms. This course focuses on the institutions, treaties and practices of these intergovernmental organisations, in addition to international criminal tribunals, providing a perspective of both the normative standards defining international human rights and the means by which they are monitored and implemented.
Achievement requirements
Achievement requirements for master’s level (15 credits):?
A good understanding of universal and regional procedures, mechanisms, and institutions in the monitoring of compliance of human rights on the basis of required readings and lectures. A general understanding of the content of selected rights contained within the main international human rights conventions.
Achievement requirements for bachelor's level (10 credits):?
A general understanding of universal and regional procedures, mechanisms, and institutions in the monitoring of compliance of human rights on the basis of required readings and lectures. A general understanding of the content of selected rights contained within the main international human rights conventions.
Reading list
Required reading:
Burgenthal, Thomas et.al, International Human Rights in A Nutshell, 3rd.ed., St. Paul, MN: West Group 2002, pp. 27-346, 402-417 (334pp)
Steiner, Henry J. and Philip Alston: International Human Rights in a Context. Law, Politics, Morals. Text and Materials,, 2nd ed, 2000. Oxford: University Press. Part C: pp. 557-623, 648-653, 705-811, 938-983 (222pp).
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. A textbook. Second Revised Edition, Asbj?rn Eide, Catharina Krause and Allan Rosas eds., pp. 9-29, 29-54, 111-118, 119-130 (69pp)
Additional handouts on relevant cases will be distributed. (Certain UN documents and relevant case law in support of the reading requirements)
Reference texts:
Brownlie, Ian and Guy S.Goodwin-Gill, eds., Basic Documents on Human Rights, 4th ed., Oxford, University Press, 2002.
Basic Documents on Public International Law, 2002. Unipub, University of Oslo.