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263 sec. 1 - International Human Rights Law (Fall 2009)
Instructor: Alice Miller (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 3
Meeting Time: TuTh 11:15-12:30
Meeting Location: D-25 Hearst Field Annex (HFA)
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49694
Main Section Enrollment:
Enrolled: 25
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 40
As of: 11/25 06:43 AM
This course introduces students to international human rights law as an evolving set of doctrines, practices, and actors. While international human rights law historically has had a strong focus on constraining state power, in the past decade, doctrinal developments in human rights have been driven by practice into new realms, well beyond the “traditional” bounds of violations of treaty-based rights by governments. Globally, law-based rights claims are now developed and deployed by a proliferating number of conjoined movements: human rights and development, environment, business, and health, and more. In this class, we will learn the law of human rights, but we will also explore tools for assessing when, where, and how law matters. We will devote considerable attention to how human rights doctrine has evolved in relationship to different historical movements, as we take on case studies examining the application of human rights law to issues such as contemporary anti-terrorism, women’s rights, gender and sexuality, transitional justice, development, health, minority rights, and humanitarianism. The questions raised for lawyers in the US engaging with international and national rights will be examined in historical and contemporary contexts.
Readings will include authoritative texts and interpretations from United Nations, regional and national human rights law, primary and secondary materials on the intersection of advocacy and doctrinal shifts, and critical scholarly literature.
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Exam Notes: TH,Mid
Course Category: International and Comparative Law
Course Subcategories:
Social Justice and Public Interest
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