Insegnamento a.a. 2010-2011

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CLMG (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - M (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - IM (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - MM (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - AFC (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - CLAPI (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - CLEFIN-FINANCE (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - CLELI (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - ACME (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - DES-ESS (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21) - EMIT (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  IUS/21)

Course Director:
GIUSEPPE FRANCO FERRARI

Course Objectives

The main purpose of this course is to provide students with a deep comprehension of the main aspects of the protection of civil liberties and human rights at the national level, from both a comparative and an historical perspective, and at the international level.

Course Content Summary

First part

• Civil liberties, libertés publiques, libertades pùblicas: a history
• Civil liberties: a definition between positivism and ius natural
• The general categories
• Fundamental rights in comparative public law
• Law and rights: police power and the rule of law
• Right’s suspension, derogation, limitation in constitutional history
• Rights and the global order: after 9/11, the comparative experience
• Freedom of association in comparative law
• The right to privacy and its progeny
• The guarantees to the protection of civil liberties

Second part

• Human rights in international law; an historical perspective
• The different ‘generations’ of human rights
• Are human rights truly universal?
• The role of political bodies of international organizations
• The mechanisms for the protection of human rights at the universal level
• The regional courts for the protection of human rights, in particular the European Court of Human Rights
• Human rights in armed conflicts
• The criminal repression of serious violations of human rights in international law

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

Final oral exam at the end of the course semester.

Textbooks

• C. Tomuschat, Human Rights. Between Idealism and Realism, 2^nd edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 (ad eccezione dei capitoli 5, 10, 13, 14)plus further materials to be provided at the beginning of the course.

Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)

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