Choose one international human rights institution (e.g. the Universal Periodic Review, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights) and discuss the challenges it faces and opportunities it provides in ensuring human rights compliance. Discuss with reference to specific human rights standards introduced in the module, and draw on concrete examples, or a case study, in designing your essay.
Please note that both essay tasks require you to tailor and design your original essay question. All essays must provide an argument, i.e. your answer to the essay question. I will attach a copy of the course syllabus.
The amount of references you use are at your discretion, but approximately 10 looks like it should suffice. Below is a list of possible starting points for references. Some of them may be useful.
Boyle, K (ed) 2009 New Institutions for Human Rights Protection, Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Cardenas, S. Conflict and Compliance. State Responses to International
Human Rights Pressure (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press,
2007).
Clapham, A. Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2007).
Donnelly, J. 1993 International Human Rights, Boulder, Colo: Westview.
De Schutter, O., International Human Rights Law (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2010).
Freeman, M. 2002 Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Polity.
Goodale, M., and Engle Merry, S., The Practice of Human Rights (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Hafner-Burton, E., Making Human Rights a Reality (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2013).
Hopgood, S. 2013. The Endtimes of Human Rights (Ithaca: Cornell University
Press)
Ishay, M., The History of Human Rights: from Ancient Times to the
Globalisation Era (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004).
Mertus, J., The United Nations and Human Rights, 2nd Ed. (London/New York,
Routledge, 2009).
Moeckli, D., Shah, S., Sivakumaran, S. and Harris, D., International Human
Rights Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010).
Nowak, M., Introduction to the International Human Rights Law Regime
(Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003).
Oberleitner, G. 2007 Global Human Rights Institutions, Cambridge, Polity
Press.
Posner, E.A., The Twilight of Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press,
2014.
International Human Rights: Standards and institutions (2014/15)
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Risse, T., Ropp S.C., and Sikkink, K., The Persistent Power of Human Rights:
From Commitment to Compliance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2013)
Sikkink, K., The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are
Changing World Politics (New York: W.W. Norton 2011).
Simmons, B., Mobilising for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic
Politics (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Smith, R. Textbook on International Human Rights, 2nd Ed. (Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2005).
Steiner, H.J., Alston, P. and Goodman R., International Human Rights in
Context: Law, Politics, Morals, 3
rd Ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007)
Tomuschat, C. 2003 Human Rights, Between Idealism and Realism, Oxford
University Press.
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