Required Reading
All books and compendiums 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, Marc (2006), The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method, Princeton University Press, Ch 1, pp 1-29. (29 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
- 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
- Andreassen, B?rd Anders (forthcoming), ?Comparative analyses of human rights performance? in B?rd A. Andreassen, Hans-Otto Sano, and Siobhán McInerney-Lankford (eds.), Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook, London: Ed Elgar, ch 1. (25 pp)
- Andreassen, B?rd Anders and Gordon Crawford (eds) (2013), Human Rights, Power and Civic Action, London: Routledge, Ch 1 (pp1-22) and Ch 8 (pp 218-256). (60 pp)
- Agee, Jane (2009), ?Developing qualitative research questions: a reflexive process?, in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22:4, 431-447. (16 pp)
- Bernal, Carlos (2013), Ch 7: ?Legal Argumentation and the Normativity of legal norms?, in C. Dahlman and E. Feteris (eds.:), Legal argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, Springer 2013, pp 103-112. (9 pp)
- Ekern, Stener (forthcoming), ?Towards a Mayan Theory of Human Rights: Sacred equilibria and the Consequences of Disrespect?, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 34 (4), 2016. (22 pp) DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2016.1248060
- Focarelli, Carlo (2012), International Law as Social Construct: The Struggle for Global Justice, Oxford University Press, pp 89-140. (51 pp)
- Dobinson, Ian and Francis Johns (2007), ?Qualitative Legal Research? in McConville, Mike and Wing Hong Chui (eds.), Research Methods for Law, Edinburgh University Press, 2007, pp 16-45. (29 pp)
- van Gestel, Rob and Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz (2014, ?Why Methods Matter in European Legal Scholarship?, European Law Journal, 20 (3), pp 292-316. (18 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)
- 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)
Total: 671 pp.