KIIT SCHOOL OF LAW (KSL)

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

(KIIT)
( Deemed to be University u/s 3 of UGC
Act. 1956)
Campus - 16, Bhubaneswar - 751024

Course Code: LW 4714 Course Title: International Human Rights Law

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Semester: 8 Sem Course Type: Elective Credits: 4
Course description andnlearning objectives
The course deals with critically analyzing the international regime for the
protection of human rights. The course will explore international human rights law,
policy, and perspective and deal with the global and regional mechanisms for the
protection of human rights.

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

1. Critically analyze the existing international legal framework for the

protection of human rights.

2. Understand and analyze the role played by regional organizations in

protection and promotion of human rights.
3. Explore the International Human rights laws, norms and practice; the
procedures used to protect human rights
4. Understand the inter-relationship between human rights regime and
humanitarian intervention for maintenance of peace and security.
5. Understand and analyze the conceptualizations of right to development
6. Understand the shortcomings and the challenges faced for the protection

of human rights world-wide.

Course outline and indicative content

MODULE I(15 hours)- INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL HUMAN

RIGHTS LAW I (CO1,CO2:L1)
1.1. Meaning and Understanding of Human Right

1.2. History of Internationalization of Human Rights

 1.3. Schools of Human Rights Law.
1.4. International Human Rights Protection - Structural Principles
1.5. Application of principles in shaping scope and nature of international human
rights

MODULE II(15 hours)- INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF HUMAN

RIGHTS LAW- CHARTER AND TREATY SYSTEMS (CO2:L1,L2)
2.1. Human Rights under the framework of the UN Charter
2.2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948.
2.3.Human Rights Treaties and Monitoring Mechanism
2.4. Charter Based Organs and Mechanism
2.5. U.N Specialized Agencies

MODULE III(15 hours)- ROLE OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN

PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (CO3:L2,L5)
3.1 The European System for the Protection of Human Rights

3.1.1 The European Convention of Human Rights

3.1.2The European Court of Human Rights

3.1.3 The European Social Charter

3.2 The Inter-American Human Rights System

3.2.1 From PAN American Union to the OAS

3.2.2 Purposes and Structure of the OAS

3.2.3 The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

3.2.4 The Charter Based Mechanism

 3.2.5 The American Convention on Human Rights

3.3 The African System of Human and People’s Rights

3.3.1 The Organization of African Unity

3.3.2 African Union

3.3.3 African Charter on Human and People’s Rights

MODULE IV(15 hours)- HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN

INTERVENTION (CO2:L4,L5)
4.1 Use of Force in international Relation

4.2 Humanitarian Intervention

4.3 Responsibility to Protect

4.4 War against Terrorism and Human rights

MODULE V(12 hours) HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT (CO3:L4)

5.1 Right to Development and Human Right
5.2 Liability of Multilateral Corporations for Human Rights Violation

Assessment methods
Task Task type Task mode Weightage (%)
A1:Research Project Group Written & Oral 30
& Viva
A2 Mid-Semester
Exam
Individual Written 20

A3: End- Semester Individual Written (short/long) 50

exam
 Learning and teaching activities
Lecturing, Class room Presentations, Group Discussion, Debates and
Exercises etc.

Teaching and learning resources

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Goodman, Ryan, Henry J Steiner, and Philip Alston. 2007. International

Human Rights in Context, 3rd edition.
2. A.H.Robertson and J.G.Merills, 2005. Human Rights In The World: An
Introduction To The Study Of The International Protection Of Human
Rights. 4th Ed. New Delhi : Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
3. Shaw, M.N., 2005.InternationalLaw.5th ed. New Delhi: Cambridge
University Press.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Shelton Dinah, 2013. International Human Rights Law. New York:

Oxford University Press.

2. Nowak Manfred,2003. Introduction to the International Human Rights

Regime.

Leiden: Martinius Nijhoff Publishers.

4. Upendra Baxi: The Future of Human Rights (Third Edition). (New

Delhi: Oxford University Press India 2012).

5. Dinah Shelton, The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law

(Oxford University Press 2013)
6. Olivier De Schutter, International Human Rights Law: Cases, Materials,
Commentary, 3rd edition Cambridge University Press 2019.

ARTICLES
1. Thomas Buergenthal, 1997. The Normative and Institutional Evolution of
International Human Rights. Human Rights Quaterly, 19(4).
2. Stephen P. Marks, “The United Nations and Human Rights” , Harvard University,
Available at:
 https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/134/2017/02/Marks-The-
United-Nations-and-Human-Rights.pdf
3. Wouters, Jan, et al. A Comparative Study of EU and US Approaches to Human
Rights in External Relations. European Parliament, 2014. Open WorldCat,
http://bookshop.europa.eu/uri?target=EUB:NOTICE:QA0114789:EN:HTML pp
56-88
4. Sengupta, Arjun. “Right to Development as a Human Right.” Economic and
Political Weekly, vol. 36, no. 27, 2001, pp. 2527–2536. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/4410829. Accessed 24 Jan. 2021

CASE REFERENCES:

1. Case Concerning Barcelona Traction, Light, and Power Co., Ltd (Belgium v.
Spain) [1970] ICJ 1
2. East Timor (Portugal v. Australia) [1995] ICJ Rep 90
3. Military and Paramilitary Jurisdiction in Nicaragua ICJ Reports 1986, p.108.
4. Tyrer v. United Kingdom [1978] ECHR 2
5. Marckx v. Belgium Application no. 6833/74, Council of Europe: European
Court of Human Rights, 13 June 1979, available at:
https://www.refworld.org/cases,ECHR,3ae6b7014.html [accessed 19 June
2021]
6. Dudgeon v United Kingdom [1981] ECHR 5
7. Demir and Baykara v. Turkey [2008] ECHR 1345
8. Sheffield and Horsham v United Kingdom [1998] ECHR 69
9. Goodwin v. United Kingdom [1996] ECHR 16
10. EB v. France (application no. 43546/02)

Case Studies
1. United Nations Security Council Intervention in Iraq
2. United Nations Security Council Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina
3. United Nations Security Council Intervention in Rwanda
4. United Nations Security Council Intervention in Libya
 LESSON PLAN

Cla Topic Pedagogy CLO Mapping Reference Material

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1. INTRODUCTION TO Lecture, CO1 ERM (*Essential

INTERNATIONAL Discussion Reading Material)
HUMAN RIGHTS 1,3, Online Sources
LAW
2. INTERNATIONAL Discussion, CO2 ERM 1,2 Online
FRAMEWORK OF Debate Sources
HUMAN RIGHTS
LAW- CHARTER
AND TREATY
SYSTEMS
3. ROLE OF Lecture, CO3 ERM 1,4 Online
REGIONAL Discussion Sources
ORGANIZATIONS
IN PROTECTION OF
HUMAN RIGHTS

4. HUMAN RIGHTS Lecture + Skill CO4 ERM 1,2,3

AND Development
HUMANITARIAN Lecture
INTERVENTION

5. HUMAN RIGHTS Lecture + CO5 ERM 3,4

AND Discussion
DEVELOPMENT