Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required Reading

All books and compendium can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore, Law Faculty (DN).

a) Books:

  • Landman, Todd (2006), Studying Human Rights, London and New York: Routledge. (148 pp)
  • Nygaard, Lynn P (2008), Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. (190 pp)
  • Trachtenberg, Mark (2006), The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method, Princeton University Press, ch 1-4, pp 1-139. (129 pp)

b) Articles online

The following chapters and articles are available directly from Internet or by using "BIBSYS ASK"

You may search for journals (printed and e-journals) by using "BIBSYS Ask" or "Find e-Journal". Both are available at the English home page of The Faculty of Law Library: http://www.ub.uio.no/english/

  • Dessler, David (1991), “Beyond Correlations: Toward a Causal Theory of War”, in Inernational Studies Quarterly, 35 (3), pp 337-355. (35 pp)

  • Human Rights Watch (2009), Rain of Fire:Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza, 25 March 2009, pp 1-65. (65 pp)

  • Kanstroom, Daniel (2008), “On 'Waterboarding': Legal Interpretation and the ContinuingContinuing Struggle for Human Rights”, Boston College Third World Law Journal, Vol. 28, pp 269-287. (18 pp)

  • Posner, Richard (2002), “Legal Scholarship Today”, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 115 pp 1314-1326. (18 pp)

  • Ratner, S and A-M Slaughter (1999), “Appraising the Methods of International Law”,The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 93, No. 2, pp. 291-302. (11 pp)

  • Waldron, Jerremy (2006), “The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review”, in The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, pp 1346-1406. (60 pp)

c) Compendium

The following chapters and articles are available in a compendium:

  • Brems, Eva (2009), “Methods in Legal Human Rights Research”, in Coomans, Fons, Fred Grünfeld and Menno T Kamminga (eds.), Methods of Human Rights Research, Intersentia, pp 77-89. (12 pp)

  • Brownlie, Ian (2008), Principles of Public International Law, 7th Edition, pp 3-29 and 630-38. (34 pp)

  • Jonsson, Urban (2005), “A Human Rights-based Approach to Programming”, in Gready P. and J. Ensor (eds.) Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-based Approaches from Theory into Practice, London: Zed Books, pp 47-62. (15 pp)

  • Kidder, Robert L. (2002), “Exploring Legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies”, in June Starr and Mark Goodale, Practicing Ethnography in Law, Palgrave Macmillan, pp 87-107. (20 pp)

  • Montgomery, Heather (2001), “Imposing Rights? A Case Study of Child Prostitution in Thailand”, in Cowan, Jane K., Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson, Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 80-102. (22 pp)

  • Robben, Antonius C.G.M. (1995), “The Politics of Truth and Emotions among Victims and Perpetrators of Violence”, in Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius C.G.M. Robben (eds.), Fieldwork under fire: Contemporary studies of violence and survival, California University Press, pp 81-103. (22 pp)

  • Simmons, Beth (2009), Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp 349-380. (31 pp)

  • Smits, Jan M, “Redefining Normative Legal Science: Towards an Argumentative Discipline”, in Coomans, Fons, Fred Grünfeld and Menno T Kamminga (eds.), Methods of Human Rights Research, Intersentia, pp 45-58. (13 pp)

Total: 888 pp.

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