JUS276-2-A / Human Rights Law

·         Ssenyonjo, M., Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law, 2009 (406 pp)

·         Chapman and Russell, Core Obligations: Building a Framework for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Intersentia 2002 (pp 21-53, 87-115) (58 pp)

·         Donnelly, J., Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Cornell University Press 2003, Chapters 1-7 (123 pp)

·         Eide, A., Economic, social and cultural rights as human rights, Chapters 2 and 22, in Eide, Krause and Rosas: Economic, social and cultural rights, a textbook, Martinus Nijhoof 2001 (pp 9-29, 407-421) (32 pp)

·         Eide, A., Freedom from need: The universal right to an adequate standard of living, in Scandinavian Studies in Law, 2010 (pp. 157-180) (23 pp)

·         Eide, A., Human rights-based development in the age of economic globalisation. In Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks: "Development as a human right", 2nd edition, Intersentia 2010 (40 pp)

·         Langford, M., The Justiciability of Social Rights. From Practice to Theory, in Social Rights Jurisprudence. Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law, Cambridge University Press 2008 (43 pp)

·         Rehman, J., International Human Rights Law, 2nd edition, Pearson Education 2010 (pp 472-511, 764-808) (87 pp)

·         Scheinin, M., Minority Rights: Additional Rights or Added Protection? In Bergsmo (ed): Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden: Essays in honour of Asbjørn Eide, Martinus Nijhoff 2003 (pp 487-504) (17 pp)

·         Cahill-Ripley, A., The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Chapter 2 in The Human Right to Water – legal status and normative content, Routledge Cavendish 2011 (pp 21-53) (32 pp)

·         Lubell, N., Challenges in applying human rights law to armed conflict, in International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 87, No. 860, Dec.2005 (pp 737-754) (17 pp)

Total pages: 878

 

The basic course literature is in line with the research frontiers in the field of socio-economic human rights. The students will have to buy two books (Ssenyonjo and Donnelly), the other material will be made available as copies on My Space (book chapters), or the students may take their own copies (articles). All copying of book chapters are in accordance with the 15 per cent rule in the Kopinor agreement. 

 

In addition to the basic literature, the students will be provided with a list of relevant additional reading suggestions.