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1. Intro, History
Background:
- Donnelly, ch. 1 (Human Rights as an Issue in World Politics)
Recommended:
Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 1-43.
2. What are Human Rights?
- Donnelly, ch. 2 (Theories of Human Rights)
- David Kennedy, “The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?,” in Harvard Human Rights Journal 15 (2001), esp 108-125.
Recommended:
Owen Fiss, “Human Rights as a Social Ideal,” in Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia, ed. Carla Hesse and Robert Post (New York: Zone, 1999). See also“The Dictates of Justice: Essays on Law and Human Rights - A Book Talk With Owen Fiss,” http://vimeo.com/36422932
Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 3-100.
3. Human Rights, Imperialism and Self-Determination: universalism vs. relativism
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Donnelly, ch. 3 (The Relative Universality of Human Rights)
Recommended:
Freeman, ch. 6 (Universality, Diversity and Difference: Culture and Human Rights)
Rob Dickinson, “Universal Human Rights: a challenge too far,” in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, ed. Rob Dickinson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murry and Ole W. Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 19-34.
Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 84-119.
4. Women’s Human Rights
- Susan Moller Okin, “Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences” Hypatia, Vol. 13, No. 2, Border Crossings: Culticultural and postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy (Part 1) (Spring, 1998), pp. 32-52.
- Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Are Women Human?,” in Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology, ed. Barend Van Der Heiden, Bahia Tahzib-Lie (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998).
5. Human Rights as Politics: transnational naming and shaming
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Donnelly, ch. 5 (Global Multilateral Mechanisms)
6. Human Rights as Politics: Transnational Human Rights Advocacy
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Country/Committee Reports
7. Human Rights as Law: regional and domestic courts
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Donnelly, ch. 6 (Regional Human Rights Regimes)
- ECtHR, Lautsi v. Italy (2011)
- ECJ, Kadi (2013)
Recommended:
Steven Wheatley, “The construction of the constitutional essentials of democratic politics by the European Court of Human Rights following Sejdić and Finci, in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, ed. Rob Dickinson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murry and Ole W. Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013),153-174.
Andreas Føllesdal “Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies,” in The Legitimacy of the International Human Rights Regime, ed. Andreas Føllesdal, Johan Karlsson Schaffer and Geir Ulfstein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 272-299.
MIDTERM REVIEW AND EXAMINATION
8. Group Rights and Individual Rights
9. Civil and Political Rights:
a. Free speech
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Donnelly, Problem 2 (hate speech)
- Michel Rosenfeld, “Hate Speech in Constitutional Jurisprudence: a Comparative Analysis,” in Cardozo Law Review (24: 2003, 1523-1567
Recommended:
Inter-American Commission on HR Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Reports on desacato laws
Ivan Hare and James Weinstein (eds.), Extreme Speech and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
b. Religious liberty
i. General
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Linde Lindkvist, "The Politics of Article 18: Religious Liberty in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Humanity (4:2013)
- John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green, “Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights,” Emory International Law Review (23: 2009), 583-608.
ii. Anti-Discrimination, LGBT rights
- ECtHR, CASE OF EWEIDA AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM
- Letter to Obama from Faith Leaders, July 1, 2014
- Koppelman, You Can't Hurry Love: Why Antidiscrimination Protections for Gay People Should Have Religious Exemptions
- Yogyakarta Principles
c. Privacy
d. Security, terrorism and torture
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Donnelly, ch. 15 ((Anti-)Terrorism and Human Rights)
Recommended:
Liora Lazarus, “The right to security – security rights or securitizing rights?” in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, ed. Rob Dickinson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murry and Ole W. Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 87-106.
C.R.G. Murray, “Of fortresses and caltrops: national security and competing models of rights protection” in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, ed. Rob Dickinson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murry and Ole W. Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 107-128.
Ian Hurd, “Torture and legitimation in international law,” in The Legitimacy of the International Human Rights Regime, ed. Andreas Føllesdal, Johan Karlsson Schaffer and Geir Ulfstein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 165-189.
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10. Economics, Business and Human Rights
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Donnelly, ch. 14 (Globalization, the State, and Human Rights)
- Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008), 3-24, 142-170, 443-466.
Recommended:
Phillip Alston and Ryan Goodman, International Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 1433-1462.
Freeman, ch. 8 (Globalization, Development and Poverty: Economics and Human Rights)
Surya Deva and David Bilchitz (eds.), Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), especially chs. 1, 11, 12.
11. Assessments
- Freeman, ch. 9 (Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century)
- David Kennedy, “The international human rights regime: still part of the problem?,” in Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, ed. Rob Dickinson, Elena Katselli, Colin Murry and Ole W. Pedersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 19-34.
FINAL REVIEW AND EXAMINATION
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