Rule of Law, Democracy & Human Rights
This course offers an introduction to comparative human and constitutional rights law. The first part introduces the students to the structure and basic doctrines of human rights law and to the nature and methodology of comparative law. The following parts cover a range of important and controversial issues in human rights law: abortion; euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide; “deviant” sexual practices; gay marriage; religion in the public sphere; hate speech and denial of the Holocaust; obscenity and blasphemy; socio-economic rights; terrorism and human rights. These topics are approached by studying and comparing judgments from various influential courts all over the world
The goals of the course are, first, to introduce the delegates to the jurisprudence of the above-mentioned powerful and influential courts, and, second, to enable them to think about and critically analyse some of the most controversial, difficult, and important rights issues of our time from a comparative perspective.
Introduction
Life and Death
Sexuality
Religion
Freedom of ex
Contemporary Challenges
Cross-Cutting Issues