Programme

The Optional Summer Course on Human Rights Law is designed to provide participants with high quality understanding and awareness on international human rights law, treaty-based monitoring mechanisms and the legal protections of human rights. Lectures take place from Monday until Sunday from 09:30 until 21:00 (there’s a break after each lecture).

Apart from the lectures we plan an Opening Session on Monday 9 July and a Closing Party on Friday 20 July.

Listed below is a preliminary list of subjects which will be covered. The final programme will be made available in due time.

United Nations Human Rights Protection System

• International Human Rights Standards
  - Standard-settings
  - Main Human Rights Treaties
• International Human Rights Protection System
  - Charter-Based Monitoring Mechanisms
  - Treaty-Based Monitoring Mechanisms
• UN Human Rights Council and China
  

Regional Systems of Protection of Human Rights

• European Human Rights Protection Organizations
• General Overview
• the European Council, OSCE, European Union
• European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) & Implementation
• Case Analysis of European Court

National Human Rights Protection System

• Introductory Theory
• A Human Rights Journey in China
• What Human Rights are about?
• National Human Rights Institution
--General Overview of NHRIs
-The Relationship between NHRIs and the Government
- Strategies used by NHRIs to Promote and Protect Human Rights
- NHRIs and Evolving International Order

Substantive Rights

• Civil and Political Rights
• Economic and Cultural Rights
• Minority Rights
• Freedom of Religion
• Women’s Rights
• Right to A fair Trial & American Criminal Justice