Syllabus - reading requirements

Articles and extracts from books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in a compilation of texts (kompendium) which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore at the Law Faculty (Domus Nova building).

Required readings

1. Act Alliance, “Shrinking Political Space of Civil Society Action”, London, Action Alliance, 2011. Part 1, pp. 1-20 (20 pp.).
2. Andreassen, Bård Anders and Gordon Crawford (eds.), Human Rights, Power and Non-Governmental Action: Comparative analyses of rights-based approaches and civic struggles in development contexts. London: Routledge, 2013. Chapter 1, pp.1-19 [19 pages]*
3. Amnesty International, The Total Abortion Ban in Nicaragua: Women’s Lives and Health Endangered, Medical Professionals Criminalized. 2009. pp.1-36 [36 pages].
4. Banik, Dan, (ed.), Rights and Legal Empowerment in Eradicating Poverty. Farnham: Ashgate, 2008. Chapters 1, pp.11-30 [19 pages]*
5. Bull, Benedicte, ‘Development Theory Revisited,’ in Dan Banik (ed), Poverty, Politics and Development. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 2006. Chapter 2, pp.28-52 [24 pages]*
6. Caney, Simon, ‘Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds,’ in Stephen Humphreys (ed.), in Human Rights and Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.69-90 [22 pages]*
7. Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), Assessing Fiscal Policies from a Human Rights Perspective. 2012. pp.1-25 [25 pages]
8. European Report on Development. Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future. 2013.Chapter 9, pp.170-194 [25 pages] Other to be included.
9. Farmer, Paul, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Chapter 1 [10 pages] *
10. Gauri, Varun and Siri Gloppen, Human Rights Based Approaches to Development: Concepts, Evidence, and Policy. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5938. [26 pages].
11. Gilbert, Jeremie and David Keane‚ ‘The New Scramble for Africa: Towards a Human-Rights Based Approach to Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Sub-Region,’ in Ben Chigara (ed.), Southern African Development Community Land Issues: Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy. London: Routledge, 2011, pp.144-168 [22 pages]*
12. Gready, P. and Jonathan Ensor (eds.), Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-based Approaches from Theory into Practice. London: Zed Books, 2005. Chapters 2-4 [40 pages].*
13. Hayward, Tim, ‘Human Rights versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space,’ in Ethics and International Affairs. Vol.21 (2007), pp.431-450 [19 pages]
14. Huchzermeyer, Marie, ‘“Slum” Upgrading and “Slum” Eradication? The Mixed Message of the MDGs,’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.295-315 [21 pages]
15. Hyden, Goran, ‘Making the State Responsive: Rethinking Governance Theory and Practice,’ in UNDP (ed.), Making the State Responsive: Experience with Democratic Governance Assessments. New York: UNDP, 2011, pp.5-28 [23 pages] 
16. João Biehl, Mariana P. Socal, Joseph J. Amon . The Judicialization of Health and the Quest for State Accountability: Evidence from 1,262 Lawsuits for Access to Medicines in Southern Brazil Health and Human Rights 18/1 (12 pp).
17. Jonsson, Urban, ‘A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming,’ in Paul Gready and Jonathan Ensor (eds.), Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-based Approaches from Theory into Practice. London: Zed Books, 2005. Chapter 2, pp.47-62 [15 pages]*
18. Joseph, Sarah, Blame it on the WTO? A Human Rights Critique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Chapter 5, pp.1-36 [36 pages]. 
19. Lauchland. T Munro, “The  “Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming”: A Contradiction in Terms?” in Sam Hickey and Diana Mitlin. Rights-Based Approaches to Development. Exploring the Potentials and Pitfalls. Kumarian Press, 2009. Ch. 11, pp. 187-206 (19 pp.).*
20. Marks, Stephen, ‘Obligations to Implement the Right to Development,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010. pp.71-100 [29 pages] *
21. Marie Huchzermeyer (2014) ‘Forced Evictions and ‘The Right to the City’’ in Amnesty International: The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World: Exploring Opportunities, Threats and Challenges. Pp. 29-35 (6pp).
22. Nordic Consulting Group (2012), Mainstreaming Disability in the New Development Paradigm Evaluation of Norwegian Support to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Oslo: NORAD, 2012. pp.xv-xxiv, pp.14-21, pp.21-25 and pp.75-85 [30 pages].
23. Ommen B (2012) The promise and challenges of human rights cities. In: Oomen B, Davis M, Grigolo M (eds) Global Urban Justice: The Rise of Human Rights Cities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp 1-19 (19 pp).
24. Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Raquel Rolnik (main focus: Mapping and framing security of tenure), UN Doc. A/HRC/22/46. pp.3-22 [19 pages]
25. Rioux, Marcia H. and Christopher A. Riddle, ‘Values in Disability Policy and Law: Equality,’ in Marcia H. Rioux, Lee Ann Basser and Melinda Jones (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011, pp.37-57 [21 pages]*
26. Sano, Hans-Otto, “Does Human Rights-based Development Make a Difference?” in Margot Salomon, Arne Tostensen and Wouter Vandenhole (eds.). Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-bearers. Antewerp, Intersentia, 2017.pp. 63-79 (17pp).*
27. Savitri Goonesekre, “Civil and Political Rights and Poverty Eradication” in Geraldine Van Bueren. Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Law’s Duty to the Poor. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2009. Ch. 3, pp. 51-78, (27 pp).
28. Sen, Amartya, Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books, 1999. Introduction, pp.3-11 [8 pages], Ch. 1-2, pp 13-54 (41 pp.)*
29. Senguta, Arjun, “The Human Right to Development” in Bård A. Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.) Development as a Human Right. Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp, Intersentia, 2010, ch 2, pp. 13-44 (31pp.).*
30. Stein, Michael, Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo and Janet Lord. ‘Education and HIV/AIDS: Disability Rights and Inclusive Development,’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.274-294 [21 pages]
31. Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, United Nations.A/RES/70/1 (35 pp). Other to be included.
32. Van Buren, Geraldine “Fulfilling Law’s Duty to the Poor” in Geraldine Van Bueren. Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Law’s Duty to the Poor. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2009. Ch 1, pp. 1-20 (20 pp).
33. Yamin, A.E. (2002) Challenges and possibilities for innovative praxis in health and human rights: Reflections from Peru, Health and Human Rights, vol. 6 (1) (2002). Pp 35-62 (27 pp).

Total:  741pages (plus « other» max, 40.pp)  

Recommended readings

You can search the articles and e-books in the e-journal database available at the University of Oslo Library. This requires having access to and being logged onto the UiO system. Contact the Law Library, Human Rights if you have problems finding the literature.

Adelman, Simon, ‘Rethinking Human Rights: The Impact of Climate Change on the Dominant Discourse,’ in Human Rights and Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.159-180

Alston, Philp, ‘Ships Passing in the Night: The Current State of the Human Rights and Development Debate Seen through the Lens of the Millennium Development Goals,’ in Human Rights Quarterly. Vol.27 (2005), pp.755-829.

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v027/27.3alston.html

Andreassen, Bård Anders and Gordon Crawford (eds.), Human Rights, Power and Non-Governmental Action: Comparative analyses of rights-based approaches and civic struggles in development contexts. London: Routledge, 2013. Conclusion.*

Andreassen, Bård Anders, ‘Development, Capabilities, Rights: What is New about the Right to Development and a Rights Approach to Development?’ in Morten Bergsmo (ed.), Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden: Essays in Honour of Asbjørn Eide. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003, pp.211-232

Barya, JJB, ‘The New Political Conditionalities of Aid: An Independent View from Africa’, in IDS Bulletin. Vol.24 (1993), pp.16-23

Beetham, David, ‘The Right to Development and Its Corresponding Obligations,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010, pp.101-120

Beitz, Charles, Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Part Three, pp.125-185

Caliari, Aldo and Mac Darrow, ‘International Cooperation, MDG 8, and Human Rights,’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner, and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.316-353. Read pp.327-348 [21 pages]

Campell, Tom, “Poverty as a Violation of Human Right. Inhumanity or Injustice?” in Thomas Pogge. Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right. Who owns what to the very poor? Oxford University Press and UNESCO Publishing, 2007. Ch 2.

Cheru, Fantu, ‘Goals, Rights and Political Economy: Daring to Break out of the Liberal Ideological Box!’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.484-502

COHRE (ed.), Listening to the Poor? Housing Rights in Nairobi, Kenya. Geneva: COHRE, 2006

COHRE, UN-HABITAT, WaterAid and SDC, Sanitation: A Human Rights Imperative. Geneva: COHRE, 2008

Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Making the Law Work for Everyone. 2008. pp.1-39. http://www.unrol.org/files/Making_the_Law_Work_for_Everyone.pdf

Davis, Kevin, Benedict Kingsbury and Sally Engle Merry (eds.), Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Classification and Rankings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012

Fischer, Andrew, ‘The Political within the Depoliticised: Poverty Measurement, Implicit Agendas and the MDGs,’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.119-142

Gelbspan, Thea and Vijay K. Nagaraj, Seeding Hope? Land in the International Human Rights Agenda Challenges and Prospects. ESCR Net. 2011. http://www.fian.org/fileadmin/media/publications/2012_06_SeedingHope.pdf

Gore, Charles, ‘Beyond the Romantic Violence of the MDGs: Development, Aid and Human Rights,’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.382-407

Gready, P. and Jonathan Ensor (eds.), Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-based Approaches from Theory into Practice. London: Zed Books, 2005. Chapters 2-4.

Gready, Paul, ‘Reasons to Be Cautious about Evidence and Evaluation: Rights-based Approaches to Development and the Emerging Culture of Evaluation,’ in Journal of Human Rights Practice. Vol.1 (2009), pp.380-401

Grillo, R. D, ‘Discourses of Development: The View from Anthropology,’ in R. D. Grillo and R. L. Stirrat (eds.), Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997, pp.1-33

Hickey, Sam and Diana Mitlin (eds.), Rights, Wrongs and Realities: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls of Rights-Based Approaches to Development. Stirling, Virginia: Kumarian Press, 2009. Chapter 1

Hickey, Sam and Diana Mitlin (eds.). Rights-Based Approaches to Development. Exploring the Potential and Pitfall. Kumarian Press, 2009.

Immanuel Wallerstein. The World System Analysis. An Introduction. Duke University Press, 2004.

Joseph, Sarah. Blame it on the WTO? A Human Rights Critique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011

Kelly, Linda and Lorraine Wapling, Development for All Strategy Mid-Term Review: Report. Canberra: AUSAID, 2013. http://www.ausaid.gov.au/aidissues/did/Documents/dfa-mtr.pdf

Langford, Malcolm, ‘Cosmopolitan Competition: The Case of International Investment,’ in Katja Aas and Cecilia Bailliet (eds.), Cosmopolitan Justice and Its Discontents. London: Routledge, 2011, pp.178–204

Langford, Malcolm, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Chapter 1, pp.1-29 [29 pages]

Langford, Malcolm, Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals, ROUNDTABLE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Loeb, Mitchell, ‘Disability Statistics: An Integral but Missing (and Misunderstood) Component of Development Work,’ in Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Vol.31 (2013), pp.306-325

Malhotra, Rajeev, ‘Towards Implementing the Right to development: A Framework for Indicators and Monitoring Methods,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010, pp.245-272

Mann, Jonathan M., Lawrence Gostin, Sofia Gruskin, Troyen Brennan, Zita Lazzarini and Harvey V. Fineberg, ‘Health and Human Rights,’ in Health and Human Rights. Vol.1 (1994), pp.1-23. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4065260.pdf?acceptTC=true&acceptTC=true&jpdConfirm=true

Miller, Hannah, ‘From “Rights-Based” to “Rights-Framed” Approaches: A Social Constructionist View of Human Rights Practice,’ in International Journal of Human Rights. Vol 14 (2010), pp.915-931 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2010.512136#.UnzdSuKFeF8 [15 pages]

Moene, Karl Ove and Michael Walerstein, Social Democracy as a Development Strategy. University of Oslo Department of Economics Memorandum No. 35/2003. pp.1-29

Mosse, David, ‘The Ideology and Politics of Community Participation: Tank Irrigation Development in Colonial and Contemporary Tamil Nadu,’ in R.D. Grillo and R.L. Stirrat (eds.), Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997, pp.255-291

Naval, Claire, Sylvie Walter and Raul Suarez de Miguel (eds.), 'Measuring Human Rights and Democratic Governance: Experiences and Lessons from Metagora - Special Issue', in OECD Journal on Development. Vol.9 (2008)

Nelson, Paul J. and Ellen Dorsey, New Advocacy Rights: Changing Strategies of Development and Human Rights NGOs. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008

Nordic Trust Fund (World Bank), Human Rights and Economics: Tensions and Positive Relationships. 2012. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PROJECTS/Resources/40940-1331068268558/Report_Development_Fragility_Human_Rights.pdf

Nordic Trust Fund (World Bank), Human Rights Impact Assessments. 2013. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/PROJECTS/Resources/40940-1331068268558/HRIA_Web.pdf

Nussbaum, Martha C. Creating Capabilities. The Human Development Approach. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011

OECD, Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action. http://www.oecd.org/development/effectiveness/34428351.pdf

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Principles and Guidelines for a Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies. Geneva: OHCHR, 2006. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/PovertyStrategiesen.pdf

Ooms, Gorik, Rachel Hammons and Gregg Gonsalves, ‘The Struggle Against HIV/AIDS: Rights, Economics and Global Responsibility,’ in Malcolm Langford, Andrew Sumner and Alicia Ely Yamin (eds.), The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp.255-273

Orkin, Mark, ‘Goal 9: Democratic Governance and Accountable Institutions for Realising Human Rights,’ in Wonhyuk Lim (ed.), One World Goals: Post-2015 Development Agenda. Seoul: Korea Development Institute, 2013

Osmani, S. R., ‘Globalization and the Right to Development: Background and Progress,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010, pp.315-337

Pogge, Thomas, “Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation” in Thomas Pogge. Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right. Who owns what to the very poor? Oxford University Press and UNESCO Publishing, 2007. Ch 1.

Rajkumar, Andrew Sunil and Vinaya Swaroop, ‘Public Spending and Outcomes: Does Governance Matter?’ in Journal of Development Economics. Vol.86 (2002), pp.96-111

Scheinin, Martin, ‘Advocating the Right to Development through Complaint Procedures Under Human Rights Treaties,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010, pp.338-352

Sengupta, Arjun, ‘The Human Right to Development,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010, pp.13-44

Skogly, Sigrun, ‘The Role of International Financial Institutions in a Rights-based Approach to the Process of Development,’ in Bård Anders Andreassen and Stephen Marks (eds.), Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010, pp.353-380

Stephenson, Sean, ‘Jobs, Justice, Climate: Conflicting State Obligations in the International Human Rights and Climate Change Regimes,’ in Ottawa Law Review. Vol.42 (2011), pp.155-179

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United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals: Making the Link. Oslo: UNDP Governance Centre, 2009. http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/resources/publications.html

van Veen, Saska C., ‘Meeting the Challenge of the Rights-based Approach to Disability: The Changing Role of Disability-Specific NGOs and DPOs,’ in Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Vol.31 (2013), pp.360-381

Wilde, Alexandra, ‘The Democratization of Governance Assessments,’ in UNDP (ed.), Making the State Responsive: Experience with Democratic Governance Assessments. New York: UNDP, 2011, pp.49-62

Zanger, Sabine, ‘Good Governance and European Aid: The Impact of Political Conditionality’, in European Union Politics, Vol.1 (2000), pp.293-317