Lahore University of Management Sciences
LAW 353 – Human Rights Law
Spring 2015-2016
Instructor
Room No.
Office Hours
Email
Telephone
Secretary/TA
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Course URL (if any)
Neha Ali Gauhar
1-15
TBD
[email protected]
5603
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Course Basics
Credit Hours
Lecture(s)
Recitation/Lab (per week)
Tutorial (per week)
4
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
2
Duration
Duration
Duration
110 mins
Course Distribution
Core
Elective
Open for Student Category
Close for Student Category
COURSE DESCRIPTION/Objectives/ Outcomes
This course provides an introduction to basic human rights law, principles, instruments and institutions. It will address the three generation of
rights including civil and political and economic and social rights. The structure and standards of international human right organizations and
committees will also be assessed. Various international and regional human rights systems and legal instruments pertaining to Europe, Americas,
Africa and the Arab world will be covered. The last part of the course will examine current human rights issues and debates in the field of human
rights with particular focus on Pakistan.
Grading Breakup and Policy
Class Presentation: 15%
Quiz (1): 7%
Quiz (2):8%
Class Participation: 10%
Attendance: 5%
Midterm Paper: 20%
Final Examination: 35%
Examination Detail
Midterm
Exam
Yes/No:
Combine Separate:
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Final Exam
Yes
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Duration: 3 hrs
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Week/
Lecture/
Module
1
Topics
3
Objectives/
Application
Introduction
Part 1- Theories and Histories of Human
Rights
2
Recommended
Readings
Human Rights: Idea and Ideology
Lousi Henkin, Sarah Cleveland,
Laurence Helfer, Gerald Nueman and
Diance Orentlicher, Human Rights
(Foundation Press, 2009) 135-188
Overview of the conceptual
foundations of rights from a
historical perspective, focusing on
both western and non-western
human rights traditions
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 531-557
Human Rights Western/Non Western Critique
Michael A. Freeman, Human Rights:
An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2nd
Edition (Polity Press, 2998) Chapter 4
Part 2- Generation of Rights
Civil and political Rights
4
5
6
Civil and political Rights
Economic and Social Rights
Economic and Social Rights
7
8
9
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 151-213
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 213-263
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 263-294
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 294-358
Quiz/Documentary
Economic and Social Rights/ next generation of
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
First generation rights refer to civil
and political rights, specifically, those
enshrined in the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The second generation concerns
economic, social and cultural rights,
specifically, those enshrined in the
International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights.
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rights
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 358-375
Part 3- Structures and Standards
10
11
12
International Organizations and Issues of
Sovereignty
Human Rights and the United Nations
Human Rights and the United Nations
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 669-735
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 735-791
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 791-844
Siobhan Leonard, ‘The European
Convention on Human Rights: A New
Era For Human Rights Protection in
Europe?’ in Angeka Hegarty &
Siobhan Leonard ed Human Rights:
An Agenda for the 21st Century
(CPL,1999)
35-54
13
Regional Human Rights Systems: Europe/
Americas
N. Baratza, ‘ Living Instrument or
Dead Letter: the Future of the
European Convention on Human
Rights’ RHRLR (2014) 116
Lousi Henkin, Sarah Cleveland,
Laurence Helfer, Gerald Nueman and
Diance Orentlicher, Human Rights
(Foundation Press, 2009) 568-584
D.Riodriguez-Pinza, ’The InterAmerican System: Landmark Cases at
the Inter-American System:
Landmark Cases at the InterAmerican Commission’ 30 NQHR
(2012) 96-111
14
Regional Human Rights Systems: Africa/ Arab
C.Nkongolo, ‘The Justifiability of
Socio-Economic Rights Under the
African Charter on Human and
People’s Rights: Appraisal and
Perspectives Three Decades after its
Adoption’ 22 AJICL (2014) 492-511
Rishmawi, ‘The Revised Arab Charter
on Human Rights: A step Forward?’
(2005) 5 HRLR 361-376
15
Analysis of the institutional and
regional framework for the
protection of human rights.
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Mid Paper Presentations
Part 4- Implementation and Enforcement
16
17
Vertical Interpretation of Human Rights
Horizontal Interpretation of Human Rights
Part 5- Key Issues in Human Rights
Terrorism as a Human Rights Violation
18
Lousi Henkin, Sarah Cleveland,
Laurence Helfer, Gerald Nueman and
Diance Orentlicher, Human Rights
(Foundation Press, 2009) 1546-1559
Lousi Henkin, Sarah Cleveland,
Laurence Helfer, Gerald Nueman and
Diance Orentlicher, Human Rights
(Foundation Press, 2009) 1559-1589
Philip Alston, Jason Morgan-Foster
and William Abresch, The
Competence of the UN Human Rights
Council and its Special Procedures in
relation to Armed Conflicts:
Extrajudicial Executions in the ‘War
on Terror’ EJIL 183-209
19
21
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 1155-1240
Joan Fitzpatrick, Speaking Law to
Power: The War Against
Terrorism and Human Rights
EJIL (2003) 14 (2): 241-264.
Counterterrorism and Human Rights since 9/11
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Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston & Ryan
Goodman, International Human
Rights in Context: Law, Politic, Morals
( Oxford, 2008) 1087-1155
Terrorism and Human Rights
Johan Steyn, Guantanamo Bay: The
Legal Black Hole, International and
Comparative Law Quarterly / Volume
53 / Issue 01 / January 2004, pp 1-15
Quiz 2/ documentary
Colin Harvey, ’Time for Reform?
Refugees, Asylum- seekers,
and Protection Under International
Human Rights Law’ Refugee Survey
Quarterly, 2014, 0, 1–17
22
Refugees/asylum-seekers and Human Rights
Critically examine how states
implement international human
rights norms and evaluate the
implications reservations in national
jurisdictions
The Pursuit of State Status and the
Shift toward International Norms:
South Korea's Evolution as a Host
Observe the status of international
standards for the protection of
human rights in Pakistan
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Country for Refugees
Journal of Refugee Studies (2014) 27
(3): 317-337
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24
Human Rights in Pakistan (Guest Lecture)
Gender and Human Rights
Hilary Charlesworths. What are
women’s international human right?
In Rebecca Cook (ed) Human Rights
of Women National and International
Perspectives (UOP,1993) 58-84
Children and Human Rights
Sibohan Mullally, As nearly as maybe:
Debating Women’s Human Rights in
Pakistan (2005) SLS 14
PHILIP ALSTON, THE BEST INTERESTS
PRINCIPLE: TOWARDS A
RECONCILIATION OF CULTURE AND
HUMAN RIGHTS, Int J Law Policy
Family (1994) 8 (1): 1-25
25
Thomas Hammarberg, UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child
- and How to Make It Work, 12 Hum.
Rts. Q. 97 (1990)
Berween, Non-Muslims in Islamic
State: Majority Rule and Minority
Rights (2006) 10 IJHR 92-102
37 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 339 (20082009)
26
Minorities and Human Rights
Rebecca Dobras, Is the United
Nations Endorsing Human Rights
Violations: An Analysis of the United
Nations' Combating Defamation of
Religions Resolutions and Pakistan's
Blasphemy Laws, 37 Ga. J. Int'l &
Comp. L. 339 (2008-2009)
Zaheerudin v. State
The Environment and Human Rights
27
Dominic McGoldrick (1996).
Sustainable Development and
Human Rights: An Integrated
Conception. International and
Comparative Law Quarterly, 45, pp
796-818.
REDGWELL, Catherine (2007) ‘Access
to Environmental Justice’, in , in
FRANCIONI, Francesco (eds) (2007)
Access to Justice as a Human Right,
Oxford: Oxford University Press,
pp.153-176
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Shehla Zia v. Wapda (PLD 1994 SC
693)
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Revision
Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings