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By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
- Recognize and describe the basic features of the international legal system
- Recognize and describe the basic features of international human rights law
- Give an account of and analyze problems related to international human rights law, such as implementation, regional and local traditions and interests etc.
- Give an account of pertinent features and problems in relation to immigration and immigration law
- Recognize and describe pertinent features of international criminal law, especially in relation to the International Criminal Court
- Give an account of and analyze problems related to humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect
- Give an account of and analyze problems in relation to non state actors, especially transnational companies
- Recognize and describe basic philosophical theories on global justice
- Present the acquired knowledge and skills in a reasonably coherent English
Write a paper on a topic of their own choice demonstrating some of the capabilities mentioned above
A breach of the law at a particular place in the world will be a breach of the law for everybody in the world. The German philosopher Kant noted this more than 200 years ago - but we still have some way to go before we have even a tolerable level of global justice. Some states have been relatively successful in creating justice within its borders - formal rule-of-law justice as well as social justice. However, many states for one reason or the other have not been able to create any acceptable standard of justice, and we do not have sufficient devices in place for securing global rule of law, let alone global social justice. In this course on Global Justice we shall take a closer look at the state of the art, what we have in terms of international law, international human rights, international accountability for atrocities and how we conceive the prevailing situation in terms of ideas and theories of global justice
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Sten Schaumburg-Müller (main contact person), Martin Mennecke, Jens Vedsted-Hansen og Bjarke Viskum
The course is partly interactive, requiring the students to participate actively
English
Albright, Madeleine (2008): "The End of Intervention", New York Times , 11 June 2008. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11albright.html
Alvarez, Jose (2007). The Schizophrenias of R2P (Article? Book? pages?)
American Anthropologist (1947), "Statement on Human Rights". American Anthropologist , vol. 49, no. 4, pp 539-543. (4 pages)
Akehurst, Michael (1997), Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law (seventh revised edition by Peter Malanczuk), London: Routledge, pp. 1-34 (34 pages)
Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court (2010): Moderator's Summary, Stocktaking of International Criminal Justice: Peace and Justice, Review Conference International Criminal Court, June 2010.
Bellamy, Alex J. (2010): "The Responsibility to Protect - Five Years On", Ethics & International Affairs , volume 24, pages 143-169 (27 pages)
Bolton, John (2008): "The Case Against Humanitarian Intervention". Available at http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28882/pub_detail.asp )
Burke-White, William (2008): "Peace vs. Justice in Uganda", Foreign Policy Digest , 1 March 2008 (available at http://www.foreignpolicydigest.org/2008/03/01/special-report-peace-vs-justice-in-uganda/ )
Donnelly, Jack (2007), "The Relative Universality of Human Rights"¸ Human Rights Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 281-306 (26 pages)
Global Commission on International Migration (2005): "Migration in an Interconnected World: New Directions for Action" pp. 5-10 (5 pages) Available at http://www.gcim.org/en/finalreport.html ).
Global Witness (2010): "The Hill Belongs to Them" - The Need for International Action on Congo's Conflict Minerals Trade, December 2010
Gray, Christine (2010), "The Use of Force in the International Legal Order", in Malcolm D. Evans (ed.), 3 rd edition, International Law , Oxford University Press, pp 589-594 (5 pages).
Jacobs, White & Ovey (2010): The European Convention on Human Rights , 5 th ed., Oxford University Press, pp. 106-28 and 546-66 (42 pages)
Kaleck, Wolfgang and Saage-Mass, Miriam (2010): "Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations Amounting to International Crimes", Journal of International Criminal Justice , volume 8, 2010, pp 699-724. (25 pages)
Kerr, Rachel and Mobekk Eirin (2007): Peace and Justice: Seeking Accountability After War , Polity Press, pp 58-77 (20 pages)
Koch, Ida E. (2009): Human Rights as Indivisible Rights , Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 1-28 (28 pages)
Okello, Moses Chrispus (2007): "The False Polarisation of Peace and Justice in Uganda", June 2007.
Phuong Pham et al. (2007): "When the War Ends: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Peace, Justice and Social Reconstruction in Northern Uganda", December 2007, pp 1-5 and 30-42. (17 pages)
Pogge, Thomas (2009): World Poverty and Human Rights. Cosmopolitan responsibilities and Reforms ; Polity Press. (Ch 1-4) )pages?)
Sen, Amartya (2009): The Idea of Justice . Penguin Book, ch 17-18 (pages)
Schaumburg-Müller, Sten (2011): "In Defense of Soft Universalism - a Modest, yet Presumptuous Position", forthcoming in Cuadernos Constitucionales . (14 pages)
Scott, Shirley V. (2004): International Law in World Politics , Lynne Riener Publishers, ch 1 (20 pages)
Smith, Rhona K.M. (2007) International Human Rights, Oxford University Press (pages?)
Steiner, Henry J., Alston, Phillip and Goodman, Ryan (2008): International Human Rights in Context , 3 rd edition, Oxford University Press, pp. 1387-1414. (28 pages)
Sullivan, David (2010): "Congo's Conflict Minerals: US Legislation and Impacts on the Ground", Foreign Policy Digest , 1 October 2010 (available at http://www.foreignpolicydigest.org/2010/10/01/congo%e2%80%99s-conflict-minerals-u-s-legislation-and-impacts-on-the-ground/
Tamanaha, Brian (2008): "Understanding Legal Pluralism. Past to Present, Local to Global", available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1010105 (64 pages)
Tolbert, David and Wierda, Marieke (2010): " Stocktaking: Peace and Justice", Briefing, International Centre for Transitional Justice , May 2010.
