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Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0801487765.

Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0521016711.

Recommended Readings

Recommended Readings for Background Information on International Law

Janis, Mark. An Introduction to International Law. Aspen Law and Business, 1999. ISBN: 0316457698.

Malanczuk, Peter, ed. Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 041511120X.

Brownlie, Ian. Principles of Public International Law. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0198762984

Recommended Reading for a More in-depth and Legal Introduction to Human Rights

Steiner, Henry, and Philip Alston. International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0198298498.

Table for Readings

SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
PART I: Introduction to the Idea and Framework
1	Course Introduction and Organizational Details
2	What are Human Rights? History and Character of the Rights Discourse	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 0801487765.
3	Key Conceptual Debates: Cultural Relativism Versus Universality, Relativity of Rights, Liberal Origins, Culture-Sovereignty and Domestic Jurisdiction	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapters 4-7. ISBN: 0801487765. Walzer, Michael. Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. ISBN: 0268018847. (excerpts) Huntington, Samuel. "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs (Summer 1993). (excerpts) Bell, Daniel A. "The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights: Reflections on an East-West Dialogue." Human Rights Quarterly 18, no. 641 (1996). Ignatieff, Michael. "Human Rights as Idolatry." In Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0691088934.
4	The Framework of Rights and Criticisms of Their Current Relevance	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapter 8. ISBN: 0801487765. Shue, Henry. Basic Rights. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0691029296. (excerpts) Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 1. ISBN: 0521016711.
5	Sovereignty and Self-determination	Knop, Karen. "Introduction." Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0521781787. Anghie, Antony. "Finding the Peripheries: Sovereignty and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century International Law." Harvard International Law Journal 40, no. 1 (Winter 1999). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Scheffer, David. "Beyond Occupation Law." American Journal of International Law 97, no. 842 (October 2003). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Williams, Paul R., and Francesca Jannotti Pecci. "Earned Sovereignty: Bridging the Gap Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination." Stanford Journal of International Law 40, no. 347 (Summer 2004). Available on Lexis-Nexis.
6	Battle of Algiers Movie and Discussion of Self-determination Continued
7	Divisions Between the West and the Rest and the Consequences for Human Rights	Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 1, 3, 4, and 7. ISBN: 0521016711. Mutua, Makau. "Savages, Victims and Saviours: The Metaphor of Human Rights." Harvard International Law Journal 42, no. 201 (Winter 2001). Available on Lexis-Nexis.
8	American Exceptionalism	Koh, Harold Hongju. "On American Exceptionalism." Stanford Law Review 55, no. 1479 (2003). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Moravcsik, Andrew. "Why is U.S. Human Rights Policy so Unilateralist?" In Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Stewart Patrick, and Stephard Forman. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1588260186. Lipset, Seymour Martin. American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. New York: WW Norton and Co, 1996. ISBN: 0393037258. (excerpts) Copelon, Rhonda. "The Indivisible Framework of International Human Rights: Bringing it Home." In The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique. Edited by David Kairys. New York: Basic Books, 1998. ISBN: 0465059597. Evans, Tony. U. S. Hegemony and the Project of Universal Human Rights. London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's, 1996. ISBN: 0312159218. (excerpts) Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapter 9. ISBN: 0801487765. Ignatieff, Michael. "Is the Human Rights Era Ending?" New York Times. Op-ed, February 5, 2002.
9	The Torture Debate: Example of American Exceptionalism?	Bowden, Mark. "The Dark Art of Interrogation." Atlantic Monthly (October 2003).
PART II: Root Causes of Human Rights Violations
10	The Push for Democracy and Democratization	Fox, Gregory, and Georg Nolte. "Intolerant Democracies." Harvard International Law Journal 36, no. 1 (Winter 1995). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 6. ISBN: 0521016711. Zakaria, Fareed. The Future of Freedom. New York: WW Norton and Co, 2003, chapters 3-5. ISBN: 0393047644.
11	Economic Development and Poverty	Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 2. ISBN: 0521016711. Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapters 11. ISBN: 0801487765. Pogge, Thomas. World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing (Polity Press), 2002, chapter 2. ISBN: 0745629954. Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books, 2000, chapters 1, 2, and 4. ISBN: 0385720270. "Righting Wrongs." The Economist. (August 18-24, 2001): 18-20.
12	Life and Debt Movie and Discussion
13	Gender and Sexual Minorities	Coomaraswamy, Radhika. "To Bellow Like a Cow: Women, Ethnicity and the Discourse of Rights." In Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives. Edited by Rebecca Cook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. ISBN: 0812215389. Engle, Karen. "After the Collapse of the Public-private Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights." Reconceiving Reality: Women and International Law. Edited by Dorinda Dollmeyer. Washington, DC: American Society of International Law, 1993. ISBN: 9994811223. Lewis, Hope. "Between 'Irua' and 'Female Genital Mutilation': Feminist Human Rights Discourse and the Cultural Divide." Harvard Human Rights Journal 8, no. 1 (Spring 1995). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapters 13. ISBN: 0801487765.
14	Ethnic and Racial Violence and Group Rights: Mass Violence I	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapter 12. ISBN: 0801487765.
15	Religious Violence and Millenarianism: Mass Violence II	Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004, chapter 2. ISBN: 1850433968. Mutua, Makau. "Limitations on Religious Rights: Problematizing Religious Freedom in the African Context." Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 5, no. 75 (1999).
PART III: Responses to Human Rights Violations
16	Forcible Responses: Intervention and Sovereignty	Todorov, Tzvetan. "Right to Intervene or Duty to Assist?" and Michael Ignatieff. "Human Rights, Sovereignty and Intervention." In Human Rights, Human Wrongs. Edited by Nicholas Owen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0192802194. Farer, Tom. "Humanitarian Intervention Before and After 9/11: Legality and Legitimacy." In Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas. Edited by J. L. Holzgrefe, and Robert O. Keohane. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 052152928X.
17	Domestic Courts	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapter 10. ISBN: 0801487765. "Notes on Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rasul v. Bush."American Journal of International Law 98 (October 2004): 782-797. Available on Lexis-Nexis. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Judicial Governance and the Ideology of Human Rights: Reflections from a Social Movement Perspective." In Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Constitutional Empowerment: Essays in Honor of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer. Edited by C. Rajkumar and K. Chockalingam. Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Excerpts of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
18	Transnational / International Judicial Enforcement	Scott, Craig ed. Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001, chapters 3, and 7 by Michael Swan and Upendra Baxi. ISBN: 1841130605. Slaughter, Anne-Marie. A New World Order. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2004, chapter 2. ISBN: 0691116989.
19	Other International Mechanisms	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapter 8. ISBN: 0801487765. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 5. ISBN: 0521016711. Fox, Jonathan. "The World Bank Inspection Panel: Lessons from the First Five Years." Global Governance 6, no. 3 (July-Sept. 2000): 279-318. Gianviti, Francois. "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Monetary Fund (IMF Paper)." Human Rights: The International Legal Context. Edited by P. Alston. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2005. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Crossing the Rubicon: Synthesizing the Soft International Law of IMF and Human Rights." Boston University International Law Journal 11, no. 81 (Spring 1993).
20	Civil Society - NGOs and Social Movements	Keck, Margaret, and Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998, chapters 1, and 3. ISBN: 0801484561. Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance. Cambridge University Press, 2003, chapter 8. ISBN: 0521016711.
PART IV: Dilemmas in Theory and Practice: Selected Current Examples
21	The Problem of Remedies: Accountability for Atrocities	Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, chapter 14. ISBN: 0801487765. Alvarez, Jose. "Crimes of States/Crimes of Hate: Lessons from Rwanda." Yale Journal of International Law 24, no. 365 (Summer 1999). Available on Lexis-Nexis.
22	Globalization and Labor Rights	Leary, Virginia. "The Paradox of Workers' Rights as Human Rights." In Human Rights, Labor Rights and International Trade. Edited by Lance Compa, and Stephen Diamond. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. ISBN: 0812233409. Collingsworth, Terry. "The Key Human Rights Challenge: Developing Enforcement Mechanisms." Harvard Human Rights Journal 15, no. 183 (Spring 2002). Available on Lexis-Nexis.
23	Science, Technology and Human Rights	Marks, Stephen. "Tying Prometheus Down: The International Law of Human Genetic Manipulation." Chicago Journal of International Law 3, no. 115 (Spring 2002). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Nagan, Winston. "International Intellectual Property, Access To Health Care, And Human Rights: South Africa V. United States." Florida Journal of International Law 14, no. 155 (Spring 2002). Available on Lexis-Nexis. Gathii, James. "Rights, Patents, Markets And The Global Aids Pandemic." Florida Journal of International Law 14, no. 261 (Spring 2002). Available on Lexis-Nexis.
24	Concluding Class: Sum Up