Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Научно-исследовательский семинар "Права человека в международном праве"
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Юриспруденция)
Направление:
40.03.01. Юриспруденция
Кто читает:
Департамент международного права
Где читается:
Факультет права
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Firstly, the course “Human Rights in International Law” gives an overview of the international human rights treaties and main judicial and quasi-judicial human rights bodies at the universal (the UN Human Rights Council and a “family” of the UN Human Rights committees) and regional levels. However, an accent is made on the (European) Convention on Protection for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the European Court of Human Rights. Secondly, the course comprises the list of basic human rights, which scope of application and content are analysed on the basis of human rights instruments and case-law of the relevant international bodies. The emphasis in this part is be also made on the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. Thirdly, the course is practice-oriented. Its participants are required to read and analyse relevant case law and are trained to compose applications, responses and judicial decisions applying International Human Rights Law.
Learning Objectives
- The main purpose of the course is to make students able to use norms of International Human Rights Law, make legal research and solve cases in this field.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- ability to carry out professional activities in the international environment;
- ability to describe legal problems and situations in the field of International Human Rights Law.
- ability to search, analyse and work with legally relevant information by using of juridical, comparative and other specific methods,
- ability to use specific terms and sources of International Human Rights Law;
- ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of scientific and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach);
- competence and working methods of international judicial and quasi-judicial human rights bodies at the universal level and the ECTHR;
- he scope of application and content of the basic human rights.
- practical abilities to undertake a research and analysis of judicial decisions and scientific writings;
- skills to analyse and solve cases, build up of the legal position and compose procedural documents on cases in the sphere of International Human Rights Law.
- sources of International Human Rights Law;
- the scope of application and content of the basic human rights.
Course Contents
- Main Sources of International Human Rights Law. International Human Rights Bodies.
- The European Court of Human Rights (The ECtHR).
- Right to Life
- Prohibition of Torture.
- Right to liberty and security of person.
- Right to a Fair Trial. Right to an Effective Remedy
- Right to Respect for Private and Family Life.
- Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion.
- Freedom of Expression.
- Freedom of Assembly and Association.
- Prohibition of Discrimination.
Assessment Elements
- Moot courtDuring Moot court activity students will argue a case regarding the rights that were studied during the course. It is carried out in a form of interactive group activity, where students will divide into teams representing the Applicant, the Respondent and the Court. The activity involves 2 parts: written and oral. In the written parts students prepare written submissions, and in the oral part present their positions imitating an adversarial court hearing.
- Exam
- Classroom-based work
- Home tasks2 tasks, average grade for 2 tasks is taken into consideration. Preparation of a written memorial (team-work, 2-5 students)
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.2 * Classroom-based work + 0.5 * Exam + 0.2 * Moot court + 0.1 * Home tasks
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A brief history of liberty, Schmidtz, D., 2010
- A dictionary of human rights, Robertson, D., 2005
- A theory of interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, Letsas, G., 2010
- Active liberty : interpreting a democratic Constitution, Breyer, S., 2008
- After evil : a politics of human rights, Meister, R., 2011
- Balancing liberty and security : human rights, human wrongs, Moss, K., 2011
- Beyond human rights : the legal status of the individual in international law, Peters, A., 2016
- Beyond terror : gender, narrative, human rights, Goldberg, E. S., 2007
- Challenges for human rights, Falcon y Tella, F., 2007
- Character, liberty, and law : Kantian essays in theory and practice, Murphy, J. G., 1998
- Civil religion, human rights and international relations : connecting people across cultures and traditions, , 2012
- Constituting Europe : the European Court of Human Rights in a national, European and global context, , 2013
- Constituting human rights : global civil society and the society of democratic states, Frost, M., 2006
- Constitutional law and human rights, , 1997
- Core documents on European and international human rights, Smith, R., 2010
- Essential human rights cases, , 1999
- European Courts Practice and Precedents, , 1997
- Europeanization of procedural law and the new challenges to fair trial, , 2009
- Fighting discrimination in Europe : the case for a rase-conscious approach, , 2013
- Friendly settlements before the European Court of Human Rights : theory and practice, Keller, H., 2010
- Globalization, international law, and human rights, , 2012
- Globalizing democracy and human rights, Gould, C. C., 2004
- Handbook of human rights, , 2012
- Human rights and media, , 2011
- Human rights and peace : ideas, laws, institutions and movements, , 2009
- International law, Shaw, M. N., 2021
- Taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights, Leach, P., 2012
- The end of reciprocity : terror, torture, and the law of war, Osiel, M., 2009
- The European court and national courts - doctrine and jurisprudence : legal change in its social context, , 2000
- The European Court of Human Rights as a pathway to impunity for international crimes, Grover, S. C., 2010
- The European Court of Human Rights in the post-Cold War Era : universality in transition, Sweeney, J. A., 2013
- The freedom of peaceful assembly in Europe, , 2016
- The right to a fair trial, , 1998
- The right to life and conflicting interests, Wicks, E., 2010
- Toward a theory of human rights : religion, law, courts, Perry, M. J., 2008
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Civil liberties and human rights, Fenwick, H., 2007
- Human rights and social justice in a global perspective : an introduction to international social work, Mapp, S. C., 2014
- Non-Discrimination Law: Comparative Perspectives, , 1999
- Terrorism and torture : an interdisciplinary perspective, , 2009
- The structure of liberty : justice and the rule of law, Barnett, R. E., 2000