This course will examine the developing law of international human rights, with an emphasis on international human rights treaties and agreements, international and regional human rights courts and tribunals, and international human rights organizations, both governmental and non-governmental. The course will examine the postwar emergence of civil and political human rights, the development of social and economic human rights, and the more recent articulation of collective and group human rights. It will also explore the normative justifications for enforcing human rights beyond the bounds of national sovereignty, and challenges to these justifications under the forces of globalization.
Special Instructions: 10 students have the option to receive R-credit. To receive R-credit, you must write one long research paper (at least 35 pages). Additional days are to be scheduled for film.
This course is open to first-year Law School students, and to other departments outside the Law School.