Textbooks to be bought by the students
- James Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights, (Blackwell Publishers, 2007), paperback.
- Ilias Bantekas and Lutz Oette, International Human Rights: Law and Practice, (Cambridge University Press, 2013), paperback.
Articles and book chapters in printed compendia handed out on first day of classes
Relevant cases (read them online; copies will be handed out in class)
Some international instruments
- UN Charter 1945
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
- UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966
- Regional Human Rights Conventions (Europe, Africa, the Americas)
- ILO Convention (no. 169) Concerning Indigenous and Tribal peoples in Independent Countries
For the full text of the main UN human rights treaties see:
- http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/CoreTreatiesen.pdf
- http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/newCoreTreatiesen.pdf
Some recommended readings
- Byrnes, Andrew, 2013: ‘The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women’, in Anne Hellum and Henriette Sinding Aasen (eds.), Women’s Human Rights. CEDAW in International Regional and National Law. Cambridge University Press.
- Donnelly, Jack, 2007: ‘The relative universality of Human Rights’, in Human Rights Quarterly 29:281-306.
- Goodhart, Michael, 2008: ‘Neither relative nor universal: A response to Donnelly’, in Human Rights Quarterly 30:183-193.
- Pitarch, Pedro, 2008: ‘The Labyrinth of Translation: A Tzeltal Version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’, in Pedro Pitarch, Shannon Speed and Xochitl Leyva (eds.), Human Rights in the Maya Region, Duke University Press, pp. 91-121.
- Naomi Roht-Arriaza, 2006: ‘The New Landscape of Transitional Justice’, in Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena (eds.), Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Beyond Truth Versus Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-16.
- Alter, Helfer & McAllister, A new international human rights court for West Africa, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, 2013.