Required Reading
All books and compendium can be purchased from Akademika bookstore, Law Faculty (Domus Nova).
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 "ORIA"
You may search for journals (printed and e-journals) by using "ORIA" 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 International Studies Quarterly, 35 (3), pp 337-355. (35 pp) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2600703?origin=crossref&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents
- Ekern, Stener (2010), “The modernizing bias of human rights: stories of mass killings and genocide in Central America”, in Journal of Genocide research, 12:3-4, pp 219-242. (21 pp) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14623528.2010.52899
- Kanstroom, Daniel (2008), “On 'Waterboarding': Legal Interpretation and the Continuing Struggle for Human Rights”, Boston College Third World Law Journal, Vol. 28, pp 269-287. (18 pp) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/bctw28&page=269&collection=journals
- McConville, Mike and Wing Hong Chui (eds.) (2007), Research Methods for Law, Edinburgh Univ. Press, pp. 1-16. (16 pp) http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=5e437979-6bbf-4c85-8365-c8153a7b366d%40sessionmgr120&vid=0&hid=116&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=205521&db=nlebk
- Posner, Richard (2002), “Legal Scholarship Today”, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 115 pp 1314-1326. (18 pp) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/hlr115&men_hide=false&men_tab=toc&kind=&page=1314
- 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) http://www.jstor.org/stable/2997990?origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Langford, Malcolm: Why Judicial Review?, Oslo Law Review 2015, pp. 36-85 http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/oslaw2351
- Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict - A/HRC/29/52, 24 June 2015, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIGazaConflict/Pages/ReportCoIGaza.aspx
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)
- 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.