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LMM128: International Human rights law
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Module leader: Dr Grietje Baars
177 items
Reading (2 items)
The seminar notes contain suggested reading materials, but you are invited to do your
own research using the University’s extensive library and electronic resources.
Lawbore™ City Hub
Website | Recommended reading
Library | City University London
Webpage | Recommended reading
Books (7 items)
Recommended Textbook
(1 items)
International human rights: the successor to international human rights in context : law,
politics and morals : text and materials - Alston, Philip, Goodman, Ryan, Alston, Philip,
Goodman, Ryan, c2013
Book | Recommended reading | It is not compulsory to buy this book as we will be using
texts from many different sources.
Further Recommended Texts (6 items)
International human rights law - 2014
Book
The law of international human rights protection - Walter Kälin, Jörg Künzli, c2009
Book | Recommended reading
International human rights lexicon - Marks, Susan, Clapham, Andrew, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
The dark sides of virtue: reassessing international humanitarianism - Kennedy, David,
Mayhew, Doug, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
Law and globalization from below: towards a cosmopolitan legality - Rodríguez Garavito,
César A., Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, 2005
Book | Recommended reading
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Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law: beyond the Nuremberg
legacy - Steven R. Ratner, Jason S. Abrams, James L. Bischoff, 2009
Book
Journals (7 items)
Journal articles will be suggested in the individual seminar guidelines. They are available
online or in the library. Journals can be accessed through electronic databases such as
JStor, Heinonline, Lawbore on the City University's Library website. The American journal of international law
Journal | Recommended reading
The American journal of international law
Journal | Recommended reading | Electronic version of the resource above
European journal of international law: Journal européen de droit international
Journal | Recommended reading
The International and comparative law quarterly
Journal | Recommended reading
The international and comparative law quarterly
Journal | Recommended reading | Electronic version of the resource above
Leiden Journal of International Law
Journal
UN Publications (5 items)
Dag Hammarskjold Library
Webpage | Recommended reading
General Assembly of the United Nations Homepage
Webpage | Recommended reading
International Court of Justice Judgements
Webpage | Recommended reading
United Nations Security Council
Webpage | Recommended reading
United Nations Human Rights Council
Webpage | Recommended reading
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Relevant blogs (5 items)
These blogs sometimes carry posts of relevance to the course:
The American Society of International Law ASIL Insights
Webpage | Recommended reading
Critical Legal Thinking | Law & the Political
Website | Recommended reading
EJIL: Talk! - Blog of the European Journal of International Law
Website | Recommended reading
Opinio Juris
Website
| Recommended reading
US Supreme Court Blog: SCOTUSblog
Website | Recommended reading
Practitioner websites (8 items)
We will be looking at the work of the following organisations (among others):
Amnesty International | Working to Protect Human Rights
Website | Recommended reading
Center for Constitutional Rights
Website | Recommended reading
The Center for International Environmental Law: Defending the right to a healthy planet
Webpage | Recommended reading
Home - ECCHR - EUROPEAN CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS (en)
Website | Recommended reading
Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide
Website | Recommended reading
The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights | INTERIGHTS
Webpage | Recommended reading
Public Interest Lawyers
Website | Recommended reading
Reprieve
Website
| Recommended reading
Seminar 1: Human rights theory, law and practice
(5 items)
Required reading (5 items)
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Books (3 items)
International law - 2014
Book | Essential reading | Koskenniemi, M.: What is International Law For? In: Evans, M.
(ed.) International Law, 13th Ed. OUP 2010, pp. 32-57.
International law - 2014
Book | Essential reading | Steiner, H.: The International Protection of Human Rights, In:
Evans, M. (ed.) International Law, 12th Ed. OUP 2008, pp. 784-813.
Cause lawyering and the state in a global era - Austin Sarat, Stuart A. Scheingold, Oxford
Scholarship Online Political Science, 2001
Book | Essential reading | Ziv, N. and Shamir, R.: State-Oriented and
Community-Oriented Lawyering For A Cause: A Tale of Two Strategies, in A. Sarat & S.
Scheingold (eds), Cause Lawyering and the State in the Global Era Oxford University Press,
2001, 287.
Journals (2 items)
The Modern Law Review
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Human Rights and Root Causes by Marks
Susan.
Date 2011/01/07, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page start 57
The Modern law review
Journal | Essential reading | Print version of the resource above
Seminar 2. The Contested History of the Human Rights Movement (9
items)
Essential Reading:
(9 items)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
The International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
The International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
The Genocide Convention
Books (4 items)
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International human rights law - 2014
Book | Essential reading | Bates, E. History, in Moeckli, D. et al (eds): International
Human Rights Law, OUP 2012
OR
International human rights: the successor to international human rights in context : law,
politics and morals : text and materials - Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman, Philip Alston, Ryan
Goodman, c2013
Book | Essential reading | Alston & Goodman Chapter 2 from page 139 onwards
Decolonizing enlightenment: transnational justice, human rights and democracy in a
postcolonial world - Nikita Dhawan, 2014
Book | Essential reading | Suárez-Krabbe, J 2014, 'The Other Side of the Story: Human
rights, race and gender from a historical transatlantic perspective'. in N Dawan (ed.),
Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a
Postcolonial Worlds. Barbara Budrich Publishers, pp. 211-226.
Journals (1 items)
Sur : international journal on human rights
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Moyn, Samuel (01.06.2014). "The future of
human rights". Sur : international journal on human rights (1806-6445), 11 (20), p. 56.
Online Resources (1 items)
Please browse the following sites
Redress Mau Mau case page
http://www.redress.org/case-docket/mutua-and-others-v-the-foreign-and-commonwealth-of
fice
Business & Human Rights Herero case page:
http://business-humanrights.org/en/german-cos-lawsuit-by-hereros#c9327
Further reading (2 items)
Journals (1 items)
California Law Review
Journal | Please read: Anderson, Rachel (2005). "Redressing Colonial Genocide under
International Law: The Hereros' Cause of Action against Germany". California law review
(0008-1221), 93 (4), p. 1155.
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Online Resources (1 items)
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790:
http://www.constitution.org/eb/rev_fran.htm
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790:
http://files.libertyfund.org/files/991/Wollstonecraft_0532_EBk_v7.0.pdf ;
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792: http://www.bartleby.com/144/
Karl Marx: On the Jewish Question, 1844
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
Seminar 3. The UN System: Case study on Palestine (18 items)
Essential Reading (18 items)
Books (2 items)
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Essential reading | Schmidt, M.: United Nations, in Moeckli et al (eds):
International Human Rights Law, 2012
From coexistence to conquest: international law and the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict,
1891-1949 - Victor Kattan, 2009
Book | Essential reading | Kattan, V.: The Partition of Palestine, in From Coexistence to
Conquest: International law and the origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949, Pluto
2009.
Journals (1 items)
Leiden Journal of International Law
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: GROSS, AEYAL M. (06.2006). "The Construction
of a Wall between The Hague and Jerusalem: The Enforcement and Limits of Humanitarian
Law and the Structure of Occupation". Leiden journal of international law (0922-1565), 19
(02), p. 393.
Online Resources (6 items)
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Palestine 101: very short introduction by Jewish Voice for Peace:
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/content/israeli-palestinian-conflict-101
History of Palestine and Israel & the League of Nations/UN See:
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/his.htm?OpenForm
Failure of the international mechanisms? Closure of Gaza: http://gisha.org/video/325
Alternatives (examples):
· BDS: http://www.bdsmovement.net/call ; Boycott from within:
http://boycottisrael.info/
· Popular resistance: http://www.popularstruggle.org/ ; http://www.awalls.org/
· Education, eg ActiveStills: http://www.activestills.org/ ; Zochrot: iNakba app:
http://zochrot.org/en/keyword/45323 ; imagining return:
http://zochrot.org/en/keyword/38151
· Economy, eg. http://gisha.org/video/331
· Culture, eg http://www.thefreedomtheatre.org/the-siege/
UNGA Res 181:
https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0/7F0AF2BD897689B785256C330061D253
ICJ Wall Advisory Opinion (Skim read only):
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=4&code=mwp&case=131&k=5a&p3=0
Goodwin Gill legal opinion on Palestinian Statehood:
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2530/guy-s.-goodwin-gill-legal-opinion-on-palestinia
n-s
Recommendations of the "Goldstone Report": at the back of the full report, which you can
download here:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/factfindingmission.htm
Press release by 15 NGOs:
http://www.adalah.org/eng/Articles/1913/NGO-STATEMENT:-Israels-Obstruction-of-UN-Hum
an-Has
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Please browse these sites:
https://unispal.un.org
http://www.ochaopt.org/
http://www.unrwa.org/
Further reading: (7 items)
Books (1 items)
The Ashgate research companion to international criminal law: critical perspectives William Schabas, Yvonne McDermott, Niamh Hayes, c2012
Book | Reynolds, John and Kearney, Michael G., Palestine, and the Politics of
International Criminal Justice (May 31, 2012). William A. Schabas, Yvonne McDermott &
Niamh Hayes (eds.),
Journals (4 items)
European journal of international law: Journal européen de droit international
Journal | Please read: Gross, A. M. (02.2007). "Human Proportions: Are Human Rights
the Emperor's New Clothes of the International Law of Occupation?". European journal of
international law (0938-5428), 18 (1), p. 1.
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Journal | Please read: Ben-Naftali, O. (04/2009). "Whose 'Conduct Unbecoming'?: The
Shooting of a Handcuffed, Blindfolded Palestinian Demonstrator". Journal of international
criminal justice (1478-1387), 7 (1), p. 155.
Journal of Human Rights Practice
Journal | Please read: Sfard, M. (03/2009). "The Price of Internal Legal Opposition to
Human Rights Abuses". Journal of human rights practice (1757-9619), 1 (1), p. 37; Felner,
E.: Human Rights Leaders in Conflict Situations: A Case Study of the Politics of ‘Moral
Entrepreneurs’ Journal of Human Rights Practice Vol 4(1) 2012
American Ethnologist
Journal | Please read: KELLY, TOBIAS (05/2010). "Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy,
Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 by". American ethnologist (0094-0496), 37 (2),
p. 391.
Online resources (2 items)
Resolution 9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (A/HRC/S-9/L.1)
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Israel's response to the Goldstone Report:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Ini
tial-response-goldstone-report-24-Sep-2009.htm
Kearney, Michael G., Lawfare, Legitimacy and Resistance: The Weak and the Law (October
1, 2010). XVI Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2010) 79-130
For a list of further reports on Operation Cast Lead by various human rights organisations
and the Arab League, see:
http://www.universaljurisdiction.org/world/israelpalestine/473-reports-gaza-waroperation-c
ast-lead
Operation in Gaza: Factual and Legal Aspects, report by Israeli Government: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Funda
mentalism-/Operation_in_Gaza-Factual_and_Legal_Aspects.htm
Kattan, Victor Matthew, Israel, Gaza, and Operation Cast Lead: Use of Force Discourse and
Jus Ad Bellum Controversies (June 21, 2009). The Palestine Yearbook of International Law,
Vol. XV, pp. 95-117, 2009
Reynolds, John and Kearney, Michael G., Palestine, and the Politics of International
Criminal Justice (May 31, 2012). William A. Schabas, Yvonne McDermott & Niamh Hayes
(eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to International Criminal Law: Critical
Perspectives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012). Available
List of the main Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations:
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items)
Al Haq http://www.alhaq.org/
Adalah Legal Centre for Arab Minority Right in Israel http://www.adalah.org/
Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights: http://www.mezan.org/en/
PCHR Palestinian Center for Human Rights: http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/
B'tselem The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories:
http://www.btselem.org/
Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement: http://gisha.org/
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ACRI Association for Civil Rights in Israel: http://www.acri.org.il/en/
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Organisation: http://www.addameer.org/
DCI-Palestine Defence for Children International: http://www.dci-palestine.org/
PCATI Public Committee Against Torture in Israel http://www.stoptorture.org.il/en
HaMoked http://www.hamoked.org/home.aspx
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel http://www.phr.org.il
Documentaries and other visuals:
(1 items)
http://www.palestinedocs.net
Visualising Palestine: http://visualizingpalestine.org
ActiveStills: http://www.activestills.org/
Seminar 4. Human rights and war, torture, terrorism (19 items)
Essential reading (7 items)
Books (3 items)
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Essential reading | Ch. 23
OR
Human rights: between idealism and realism - Christian Tomuschat, Oxford Scholarly
Authorities on International Law, 2014
Book | Essential reading | Ch. 11
Journals (2 items)
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The Columbia journal of transnational law
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: "Privileging combat? contemporary conflict and
the legal construction of war". The Columbia journal of transnational law (0010-1931), 43
(1), p. 1.
European journal of international law: Journal européen de droit international
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Megret, F. (04/2003). "Justice in Times of
Violence". European journal of international law (0938-5428), 14 (2), p. 327; Gross, A. M.
(02.2007). "Human Proportions: Are Human Rights the Emperor's New Clothes of the
International Law of Occupation?". European journal of international law (0938-5428), 18
(1), p. 1.; Kretzmer, D. (04.2005). "Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial
Executions or Legitimate Means of Defence?". European journal of international law
(0938-5428), 16 (2), p. 171.
Online Resources (2 items)
Lawyers, litigation, and the US anti-torture campaign
O'Connel, M: The Law on Drones, ASIL Insight, November 2010
Additional reading (9 items)
Books (2 items)
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Ch. 26
Brownlie's principles of public international law - James Crawford, Ian Brownlie, c2012
Book | Kennedy, D.: Lawfare and Warfare, in: Crawford (ed) Public International Law,
CUP 2011.
Journals (6 items)
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Journal | Please read: Ben-Naftali, O. (04/2009). "Whose 'Conduct Unbecoming'?: The
Shooting of a Handcuffed, Blindfolded Palestinian Demonstrator". Journal of international
criminal justice (1478-1387), 7 (1), p. 155.
International review of the Red Cross
Journal | Please read: Duffy, Helen (09/2008). "Human rights litigation and the ‘war on
terror’". International review of the Red Cross (2005) (1816-3831), 90 (871), p. 573.
International review of the Red Cross
Journal | Print version of the resource above
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Journal of human rights practice
Journal | Please read: Dudai, R. (05/2012). "Thinking Critically about Armed Groups and
Human Rights Praxis". Journal of human rights practice (1757-9619), 4 (1), p. 1.
Journal of common market studies
Journal | Please read: "European responses to international terrorism". Journal of
common market studies (0021-9886), 46 (1), p. 195.
Journal of common market studie
Journal | Print version of the resource above
Online Resources (1 items)
Kaye, D.: International Law Issues in the Department of Justice White Paper on Targeted
Killing, ASIL Insight, February 2013
Case Studies (3 items)
Reprieve Noor Khan cases: (1 items)
Noor Khan (Reprieve)
and
High court rejects challenge over UK link to drone strikes in Pakistan
Please read the decision here:
[2012] EWHC 3728
and
Reprieve Noor Khan Drone Attack Pakistan
Public Interest lawyers Iraq torture by British soldiers case: (1 items)
http://www.publicinterestlawyers.co.uk/news_details.php?id=295
Please read the petition here:
http://www.publicinterestlawyers.co.uk/judgments.php
and try to answer the questions on the "Case Study Presentation Questions" list.
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Decision October 2013:
[2013] EWHC 2941
See also:
Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT)
and
The Grand Chamber Judgment in Hassan v UK
Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) work on Guantanamo (1
items)
Center for Constitutional Rights: Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo
Critical Legal Thinking:
From the CIA Torture Report to Ferguson and Palestine: Should anyone be prosecuted?
Seminar 5. The criminalization of human rights violations (22 items)
Essential reading (11 items)
Books (5 items)
Brownlie's principles of public international law - James Crawford, Ian Brownlie, c2012
Book | Essential reading | Crawford, J.: International Criminal Law, in Brownlie’s
Principles of Public International Law,
OR
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Essential reading | Ch. 24
Accountability for human rights atrocities in international law: beyond the Nuremberg
legacy - Steven R. Ratner, Jason S. Abrams, James L. Bischoff, 2009
Book | Essential reading | Ch. 1 and 8.
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The Oxford companion to international criminal justice - Antonio Cassese, 2009
Book | Essential reading | Please read: Jessberger, F.: International v National
Prosecution of International Crimes, in Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice;
"Pinochet"; "Immunity"
Journals (1 items)
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Journal | Please read: Huisman, W (2010). "Rogue Traders. Dutch Businessmen,
International Crimes and Corporate Complicity". Journal of international criminal justice
(1478-1387), 8 (3), p. 803.
The Oxford companion to international criminal justice - Antonio Cassese, Dawsonera,
c2009
Book | Essential reading | Electronic version of the resource above. Please read:
Jessberger, F.: International v National Prosecution of International Crimes, in Oxford
Companion to International Criminal Justice
OR
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Journal | Essential reading | Gallagher, K. (12.2009). "Universal Jurisdiction in Practice:
Efforts to Hold Donald Rumsfeld and Other High-level United States Officials Accountable
for Torture". Journal of international criminal justice (1478-1387), 7 (5), p. 1087.
Online Resources (2 items)
The Principle and Practice of Universal Jurisdiction: PCHR's Work in the occupied
Palestinian territory
Articles 146 and 147 of the 4th Geneva Convention
Articles 1-16 of the Convention Against Torture
UK UJ law change media commentary: Former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni to visit UK after change in arrest law and Sleep easy,
war criminals
Rumsfeld case summary:
http://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-s-accountabilit
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"The Bush Six" in Spain:
http://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-s-accountabilit
y/bush.html
Van Anraat in The Netherlands:
http://www.asser.nl/default.aspx?site_id=36&level1=15248&level2=&level3=&textid=400
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Further reading (11 items)
Books (3 items)
The Cambridge companion to international law - James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi,
Surabhi Ranganathan, 2012
Book | Please read: Nouwen, S.: Justifying Justice, in Crawford, J. et al (eds) the
Cambridge Companion to International Law
The Cambridge Companion to International Law - James Crawford, Cambridge Books Online
Course Book EBA., 2012
Book | Electronic version of the resource above
International criminal law: a critical introduction - Alexander Zahar, Göran Sluiter, 2008
Book | Please read: Zahar, A. and G. Sluiter: Chapter 13: International Criminal Law and
the Domestic Legal Order: The National Application of International Criminal Law
Journals (5 items)
Oregon review of international law
Journal | Please read: Baylis, E.: Tribunal-Hopping with the Post-Conflict Justice Junkies,
Oregon Review of International Law 10 (2008) 361.
Leiden Journal of International Law
Journal | Please read: KENDALL, SARA (09/2011). "Donors' Justice: Recasting
International Criminal Accountability". Leiden journal of international law (0922-1565), 24
(03), p. 585.
Max Planck yearbook of United Nations law
Journal | Please read: Koskenniemi, M.: Between Impunity and Show Trials, Max Planck
Yearbook of United Nations Law, vol. 6, 2002, pp. 1–35.
The international journal of transitional justice
Journal | Please read: Miller, Z.: Effects of Invisibility: In Search of the ‘Economic’ in
Transitional Justice, The International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2 (2008) 266-291.
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Journal | Please read: "Genocide v. War Crimes in the Van Anraat Appeal
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", Author:
Harmen van der Wilt. Date
2008; Volume
6, Issue
3. Page start
557;
"Genocide, complicity in genocide and international v. domestic jurisdiction". Journal of
international criminal justice (1478-1387), 4 (2), p. 239.;
"Universal jurisdiction under attack: an assessment of African misgivings towards
international criminal justice as administered by Western states". Journal of international
criminal justice (1478-1387), 9 (5), p. 1043.
Online Resources (3 items)
UK court convicts Afghan warlord
Webpage
The New Tribunalism: Strategies of De-Legitimation in the Era of International Adjudication
| Thomas Skouteris - Academia.edu
Webpage
Corporal D. Payne (Court martial: war crimes under the International Criminal Court Act
2001 – abuse of Baha Moussa and others) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6609237.stm
Seminar 6. Indigenous peoples, human rights and natural resources (11
items)
Essential reading (5 items)
Journals (3 items)
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Journal | Please read: Barelli (10/2009). "The Role of Soft Law in the International Legal
System: the case of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples".
The International and comparative law quarterly (0020-5893), 58 (4).
The International and comparative law quarterly
Journal | Print version of the resource above
European journal of international law: Journal européen de droit international
Journal | Please read: "Towards a Jurisprudential Articulation of Indigenous Land Rights".
European journal of international law (0938-5428), 22 (1), p. 165.
Online Resources (1 items)
Working Paper on the Relationship & Distinction between the Rights of Persons Belonging
to Minorities & those of Indigenous Peoples, UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/10
Ángela Poma Poma v. Peru, Human Rights Committee, Communication No. 1457/2006, UN
Doc. CCPR/C/95/D/1457/2006
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The World Bank: Indigenous Peoples' Policy OP 4.10
Saramaka People v. Suriname, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Judgment of
November 28, 2007 Series C No. 172, especially paras. 124-158
Further reading (6 items)
Books (3 items)
Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Steve Allen,
Alexandra Xanthaki, Hart Publishing Law E-Book Collection, 2011
Book
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Chapter 17 Rights of Peoples and Minorities
Indigenous rights and United Nations standards: self-determination, culture and land Alexandra Xanthaki, 2010
Book
Journals (2 items)
European journal of international law: Journal européen de droit international
Journal | Please read: "On Fragile Architecture: The UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in the Context of Human Rights". European journal of international law
(0938-5428), 22 (1), p. 141.
International Journal of Constitutional Law
Journal | Please read: Kymlicka, W. (12/2007). "The internationalization of minority
rights". International journal of constitutional law (1474-2640), 6 (1), p. 1.
Centre for Minority Rights Development (Kenya) and Minority Rights Group International on
behalf of Endorois Welfare Council v. Kenya (African Commission on Human and Peoples'
Rights), 276/2003
Seminar 7. Business & Human Rights (35 items)
Essential reading (12 items)
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Books (1 items)
International human rights: the successor to international human rights in context : law,
politics and morals : text and materials - Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman, Philip Alston, Ryan
Goodman, c2013
Book | Essential reading | Chapter 16: Non-State Actors and Human Rights, p. 1461.
Journals (3 items)
Utrecht Journal of International and European Law
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Plomp, Caspar (08.2014). "Aiding and Abetting:
The Responsibility of Business Leaders under the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court". Utrecht journal of international and European law (2053-5341), 30 (79), p.
4.
Cornell international law journal
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Bakan, Joel, The Invisible Hand of Law: Private
Regulation and the Rule of Law, 48 Cornell International Law Journal 279 (2015)
Netherlands yearbook of international law
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: The Crisis of International Human Rights Law in
the Global Market Economy - Daniel Augenstein
Online Resources (1 items)
UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights
And:
Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other
business enterprises with respect to human rights
Please browse this website:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/
and look at this report: Drimmer, J.: Think Globally, Sue Locally: Out of court tactics
Out-of-Court Tactics Employed by Plaintiffs, Their Lawyers, and Their Advocates in
Transnational Tort Cases, Institute for Legal Reform, Jun 21, 2010:
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Business & Human Rights & IHL: Main points (1 items)
No War for Oil:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz/index.html?sr=fbmain
Soft law instruments (1 items)
o OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises and National Contact Points
o Voluntary Principles on Security & Human Rights
Current state of affairs: (1 items)
e.g. Global Witness: "Oil & Mining in Violent Places: Why Voluntary Codes for Companies
Don't Guarantee Human Rights"
Compliance schemes (1 items)
o ISO 26000
o Social Accountability SA8000
o Global Reporting Initiative
Certification schemes (1 items)
o Fair Trade
o Kimberley Process (conflict diamonds)
Synthesis, discussion (1 items)
Jeremy Scahill Blackwater short clip: Blackwater: Shadow Army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8
The Nation: Docs Reveals Blackwater-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to
Multinationals Like Monsanto, Chevron, Democracy Now 16 September 2010.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/16/the_nation__docs_reveals_blackwater
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Case studies and organisations (1 items)
Kiobel v Shell (US)
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kiobel-v-royal-dutch-petroleum/ or
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Lawlawsuits/Lawsuitsregulatoryaction/La
wsuitsSelectedcases/ShelllawsuitreNigeria
Pros. v Van Anraat (The Netherlands)
http://www.asser.nl/default.aspx?site_id=36&level1=15248&level2=&level3=&textid=400
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R v Saibene et al (UK: Smash EDO) http://www.smashedo.org.uk/ and the judge's full
summing up: https://www.thejc.com/judge-bathurst-norman-the-full-summing-up-1.16888
Saleh et al v CACI/Titan (US) http://ccrjustice.org/ourcases/current-cases/saleh-v-titan Trafigura:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Lawlawsuits/Lawsuitsregulatoryaction/La
wsuitsSelectedcases/TrafiguralawsuitsreCtedIvoire
Global Witness on conflict resources: http://www.globalwitness.org/
ECCHR business & human rights litigation and campaigning:
http://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/business-and-human-rights.html
Corporate Watch: http://www.corporatewatch.org/
Association Sherpa: http://www.asso-sherpa.org/category/juridique/
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Public Interest Lawyers: http://www.publicinterestlawyers.co.uk
OECD National Contact Points: http://www.oecd.org/investment/mne/ncps.htm
Swedwatch (Assa Abloy/Mul-T-Lock report):
http://www.swedwatch.org/sites/default/files/swedwatch_-_illegal_ground.pdf
Further reading (23 items)
Books (3 items)
The hidden histories of war crimes trials - Kevin Jon Heller, Gerry J. Simpson, Oxford
Scholarship Online Law, 2013
Book | Baars, G.: “Capitalism’s Victor’s Justice? The hidden story of the prosecution of
industrialists post-WWII” in: Simpson, G. and K. Heller (eds.): Untold Stories: Hidden
Histories of War Crimes Trials, Oxford University Press, 2013: 163-192.
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Clapham, Andrew, Non-State Actors, in Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah and
Sandesh Sivakumaran, International Human Rights Law, OUP, 2011, 561-582.
State crime in the global age - William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski, Ronald C.
Kramer, c2010
Book | Please read: Whyte, D.: The neo-liberal state of exception in occupied Iraq. In:
Chambliss, W and Michalowski, R. (eds): State Crime in the Global Age. Collumpton
Journals (14 items)
Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern law
Journal | Please read: "Corrie et al v. Caterpillar: Litigating Corporate Complicity in
Israeli Violations of International Law in the U.S. Courts". Yearbook of Islamic and Middle
Eastern law (1384-2935), 11 (1), p. 97.
Journal of International Criminal Justice
Journal | Please read: Farrell, N. (07/2010). "Attributing Criminal Liability to Corporate
Actors: Some Lessons from the International Tribunals". Journal of international criminal
justice (1478-1387), 8 (3), p. 873;
Gallagher, K. (07/2010). "Civil Litigation and Transnational Business: An Alien Tort Statute
Primer". Journal of international criminal justice (1478-1387), 8 (3), p. 745;
"Rogue Traders. Dutch Businessmen, International Crimes and Corporate Complicity".
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Journal of international criminal justice (1478-1387), 8 (3), p. 803;
Kyriakakis, J. (09/2007). "Australian Prosecution of Corporations for International Crimes:
The Potential of the Commonwealth Criminal Code". Journal of international criminal justice
(1478-1387), 5 (4), p. 809.;
"Genocide v. War Crimes in the Van Anraat Appeal ", Author: Harmen van der Wilt. Date
2008; Volume 6, Issue 3. Page start 557; "Genocide, complicity in genocide and
international v. domestic jurisdiction". Journal of international criminal justice (1478-1387),
4 (2), p. 239.;
Law & society review
Journal | Please read: Shamir, R.: Between Self-Regulation and the Alien Tort Claims
Act: On the Contested Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility, Law and Society Review,
38(4) (2004) 635.
Journal of human rights practice
Journal | Please read: Madlingozi, T. (06/2010). "On Transitional Justice Entrepreneurs
and the Production of Victims". Journal of human rights practice (1757-9619), 2 (2), p. 208.
City University of Hong Kong law review
Journal | Please read: Meeran, Richard: Tort Litigation against Multinational Corporations
for Violations of Human Rights: An Overview of the Position outside of the United States,
City University of Hong Kong Law Review 3(1) (2011) 1-41
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Journal | Please read: Petrig, Anna (07/2013). "THE USE OF FORCE AND FIREARMS BY
PRIVATE MARITIME SECURITY COMPANIES AGAINST SUSPECTED PIRATES". The
International and comparative law quarterly (0020-5893), 62 (03), p. 667.
The International and comparative law quarterly
Journal | Print version of the resource above
European journal of international law: Journal européen de droit international
Journal | Please read: Ryngaert, C. (11/2008). "Litigating Abuses Committed by Private
Military Companies". European journal of international law (0938-5428), 19 (5), p. 1035.
Law & society review
Journal | Please read: Shamir, Ronen (12/2004). "Between Self-Regulation and the Alien
Tort Claims Act: On the Contested Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility". Law &
society review (0023-9216), 38 (4), p. 635.
Yale human rights & development law journal
Journal | Please read: "An introduction to corporate social responsibility in the extractive
industries". Yale human rights & development law journal (1548-2596), 11 , p. 1.
New criminal law review
Journal | Please read: "A Pragmatic Critique of Corporate Criminal Theory". New criminal
law review (1933-4192), 16 (2), p. 261.
Social Justice
Journal | Please read: Whyte, Dave (2007). "Hire an American! Economic Tyranny and
Corruption in Iraq". Social justice (San Francisco, Calif.) (1043-1578), 34 (2), p. 153.
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Journal of law and society
Journal | Please read: Whyte, D.: Lethal regulation: state-corporate crime and the United
Kingdom government’s new mercenaries. Journal of Law and Society vol 30 issue 4(2003)
pp 575-600
Journal of law and society
Journal | Print version of the resource above
Universal tort jurisdiction over gross human rights violations
Article
Online Resources (4 items)
Drimmer, J.: Think Globally, Sue Locally: Out of court tactics Out-of-Court Tactics Employed
by Plaintiffs, Their Lawyers, and Their Advocates in Transnational Tort Cases, Institute for
Legal Reform, Jun 21, 2010:
Tsagourias, Nicholas, Non-State Actors and the Use of Force (June 1, 2011). PARTICIPANTS
IN THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES ON NON-STATE ACTORS
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, J. d'Aspremont, ed., Routledge, 2011.
UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights. University Press 2010 pp561-582.
Mining Gold in a Conflict Zone: The Context, Ramifications, Lessons of AngeloGold
Ashanti's Activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - viewcontent.cgi
Webpage
Other media (1 items)
Movie:Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009) (trailer)
Lawyer Turns Tables On Chevron and Sues Oil Giant for Fraud In Federal Court
Mark Thomas Documentary: Channel 4 'Dispatches' documentary 'Mark Thomas' After
School Arms Club' http://www.markthomasinfo.com/section_writing/default.asp?id=5 .
Corporations on Trial: People & Power, Al Jazeera International documentary series (2009),
· "Volcano Lusi - Muddy Justice" (Lapindo – Indonesia)
· "Chiquita - Between Life and Law" (Chiquita – Colombia)
· "Courtroon Intifada" (Green Park and Green Mount – Canada/Palestine)
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· "Dumping Ground" (Trafigura – Cote d'Ivoire)
· "A Case of Global Proportions" (Exxon – US)
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2009/05/200951912718478492.
html
Youtube: Scahill: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's most powerful private army
Seminar 8. Human rights in Europe (6 items)
Essential reading (4 items)
Books (2 items)
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Greer, Stephen: Europe
Constitutional law, administrative law, and human rights: a critical introduction - Ian
Loveland, 2015
Book | Chapters 19 and 23.
Journals (1 items)
Human rights law review
Journal | Please read: Cullen, Holly: The Collective Complaints System of the European
Social Charter: Interpretive Methods of the European Committee of Social Rights, Human
Rights Law Review 9(1) 2009 61-93
Online Resources (1 items)
The European Convention on Human Rights
The European Social Charter: http://www.coe.int/T/DGHL/Monitoring/SocialCharter/
Further reading (2 items)
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Books (1 items)
International human rights: the successor to international human rights in context : law,
politics and morals : text and materials - Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman, Philip Alston, Ryan
Goodman, c2013
Book | Chapter 11 up to p. 979
Online Resources (1 items)
Case studies/issue areas: (chose 2-3 to look at from the cases below)
Austerity/Cyprus bail-out:
http://www.assembly.coe.int/ASP/Doc/XrefViewPDF.asp?FileID=18916&Language=EN PACE
committee head calls on Greek authorities to modify labour law reforms judged illegal The
Greek Austerity Measures: Violations of Socio-Economic Rights
Would the Cyprus bank account levy violate Cypriots' rights under the ECHR? (we will
discuss this in class)
Roma rights: Roma and Travellers INTERIGHTS v Greece European Roma Rights Centre
The right to health and healthcare privatisation: Health O'Connell, Paul, The Human Right
to Health and the Privatisation of Irish Health Care (2005). Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland,
Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 76, 2005
People trafficking/slavery: Council of Europe Convention on Action against the Trafficking
in Human Beings CASE OF C.N. v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (ECtHR Strasbourg court makes
finding against UK in modern slavery test case Children trafficked from Asia to UK to work
in cannabis factories
Right to protest/Kettling: Kettling judgement disappoints protesters Liberty client takes
kettling challenge to Court of Human Rights in landmark hearing CASE OF AUSTIN AND
OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (ECtHR)
Secret courts and detention without charge on suspicion of terrorism, etc: "No reason
exists" to justify "inherently unfair" Secret Courts, say expert lawyers Countering terrorism
Renditions Abu Zubaydah v Poland (ECtHR)
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LGBT rights
Alekseyev v Russia (ECtHR)
You can find further cases on the ECtHR Hudoc website
and ESC complaints here:
http://www.coe.int/en/web/turin-european-social-charter/collective-complaints-procedure
Seminar 9. IHRL’s emancipatory potential (18 items)
Essential reading (for this class to work you must read all four texts
carefully) (5 items)
Journals (4 items)
Harvard human rights journal
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: "The international human rights movement:
part of the problem?". Harvard human rights journal (1057-5057), 15 , p. 101.
Journal of Human Rights Practice
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Sfard, M. (03/2009). "The Price of Internal Legal
Opposition to Human Rights Abuses". Journal of human rights practice (1757-9619), 1 (1),
p. 37.
Modern Law Review
Journal | Essential reading | Please read: Marks, Susan (01/2011). "Human Rights and
Root Causes Human Rights and Root Causes". Modern law review (0026-7961), 74 (1), p.
57.
The Modern law review
Journal | Print version of the resource above
Online Resources (1 items)
From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics - Samuel Moyn, 2011
Webpage
Further reading
(12 items)
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Books (3 items)
International human rights law and practice - Bantekas, Ilias, Oette, Lutz, 2016
Book | Marks, S. and A. Clapham: Victims, in, International Human Rights Lexicon, OUP,
2005
International human rights law and practice - Bantekas, Ilias, Oette, Lutz, 2016
Book | Marks, S. and A. Clapham: Universality, in, International Human Rights Lexicon,
OUP, 2005.
International human rights law - 2014
Book | Chapters 3&4
Marxist critiques (4 items)
Leiden Journal of International Law
Journal | Please read:
MIVILLE, CHINA (1999). "The Commodity-Form Theory of International Law: An
Introduction". Leiden journal of international law (0922-1565), 17 (2), p. 271;
Knox, R.: Marxism, International Law and Political Strategy, Leiden Journal of International
Law 22 (2009) 413.
Journal of law and society
Journal | Please read: Cole, An unqualified Human Good: EP Thompson and the Rule of
Law Journal of Law & Society 28 (177) (2001)
The Northern Ireland legal quarterly
Journal | Please read: Baars, G.: Reform or Revolution: Marxian vs Polanyian approaches
to the regulation of ‘the economic’ Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 17(4) (2011) 415
The Northern Ireland legal quarterly
Journal | Print version of the resource above
Practice related (1 items)
Law & Social Inquiry
Journal | Please read: Albiston, C. R. and Nielsen, L. B. (2013), Funding the Cause: How
Public Interest Law Organizations Fund Their Activities and Why It Matters for Social
Change
Postcolonial critiques (4 items)
Books (1 items)
Marxism and the interpretation of culture - Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg, 1988
Book | Please read: Spivak G. "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
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Journals (2 items)
South African Review of Sociology
Journal | Please read: Neocosmos, Michael (07/2006). "Can a human rights culture
enable emancipation? Clearing some theoretical ground for the renewal of a critical
sociology". South African review of sociology (2152-8586), 37 (2), p. 356.
Theory & Event
Journal | Please read: Asad, Talal: What do Human Rights do? An Anthropological
Enquiry. Theory and Event 27 (40) (2000).
Online Resources (1 items)
Mutua, Makau W., What is Twail? (2000). American Society of International Law,
Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting, pp. 31-39, 2000
Seminar 10. International Human Rights Law and the ‘Refugee Crisis’
(1 items)
Essential Reading (1 items)
1951 Refugee Convention Human Rights Watch: Agenda for Action The Atlantic:
European Refugee Crisis: A 'Systematic' Violation of Human Rights The Guardian: Turkey
putting Syrian refugees 'at serious risk of human rights abuse' Amnesty International:
Eight Solutions to the World Refugee Crisis
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