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3. Sceptics and Critics I4. Sceptics and Critics II5. Structure of the human rights regime and enforcement6. Right to Life and Livelihood7. Right to Property8. Economic and Social Rights9. Indigenous rights10. Self-determination and Democracy11. Multiculturalism and Human Rights12. Arbitrary Arrest and Detention in National Emergencies13. Freedom from Torture and Ill-Treatment14. Freedom of Movement15. Refugee Rights16. Women’s RightsREADINGThere is no set textbook for this course. The following books will however be used frequently:Alston, Goodman and Steiner, International Human Rights in Context (3rd ed 2007)Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (2007)Marks and Clapham, International Human Rights Lexicon (2005)PAPER 26. CIVIL LIBERTIES AND HUMAN RIGHTSThe course is based upon the United Kingdom Law and practice relating to civil liberties and human rights, consideredagainst the background of the European Convention on Human Rights. Comparative reference is made whereappropriate to relevant parts of the law in the United States of America, Germany, South Africa, Canada and Australia.Particular attention is paid to the philosophical foundations of civil liberties and the nature of rights. The courseaddresses the central question of how civil liberties and human rights are and should be protected within a constitutionalstructure which is based upon Parliamentary Sovereignty but is in the process of embedding human rights.Individual topics considered in depth will be selected from a list including:1. The nature of Civil Liberties and Human Rights in the UK.2. Terrorism.3. Right to Life.4. Torture and Article 3 ECHR.5. Freedom of Religion6. Equality7. Theories of Free Speech8. Freedom of Assembly and Public Order.9. Privacy10. Law of obscenity11. Right to Vote12. Political participation access to the mediaREADING100
Background reading:Bingham, The Rule of Law (2010)Ewing and Gearty, The Struggle for Civil Liberties (2000)Gearty, Civil Liberties (2007)Textbooks, cases and materials:UK LawBailey, Harris and Jones, Civil Liberties, Cases and Materials (6th ed 2009)Fenwick, Civil Liberties and Human Rights (4th ed 2007)Fenwick and Phillipson, Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights (3rd ed 2010)European Human Rights LawHarris, O’Boyle, Warbrick and Bates, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (2nd ed 2009)Janis, Kay and Bradley, European Human Rights Law (3rd ed 2008)Ovey, White and Jacobs, The European Convention on Human Rights (5th ed 2010)Further reading and reference:Allan, Constitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law (2001)Ashworth and Emmerson, Human Rights and Criminal Justice (2007)Barendt, Freedom of Speech (2nd ed 2005)Beatson et.al. Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom (2008)Beatson and Cripps, Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information (2000)Campbell, Ewing and Tomkins, Sceptical Essays on Human Rights (2001)Dembour, Who Believes in Human Rights? (2006)Ewing, Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, human rights, and the rule of Law (2010)Fenwick and Phillipson, Media Freedom under the Human Rights Act (2006)Fenwick, Phillipson and Masterman (eds), Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act (2007)Feldman, Civil Liberties and Human Rights in England and Wales (2nd ed 2002)Feldman (ed), English Public Law (2nd ed 2009)Gearty, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication (2004)Gearty, Can Human Rights Survive? (2006)Griffin, On Human Rights (2008)Halliday and Schmidt (eds), Human Rights Brought Home: Socio-Legal Studies of Human Rights in the National Context(2004)Hickman, Public Law After the Human Rights Act (2010)Leigh and Masterman, Making Rights Real: The Human Rights Act in its First Decade (2008)Lester and Pannick, Human Rights Law and Practice (3rd ed 2009)Mead, The New Law of Peaceful Protest: Rights and Regulation in the Human Rights Act Era (2010)Rowbottom, Democracy Distorted: Wealth, Influence and Democratic Politics (2010)Scolnicov, The Right to Religious Freedom in International Law: Between Group Rights and Individual Rights (2010)Detailed reading lists are distributed during the course.PAPER 29. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW101
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The Faculty of LawLaw has been stud
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