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BEYOND UNIVERSALISM:
THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
(LAW708H1S)
Winter 2007-2008
Patrick Macklem
JAN - 8 2003
FACULTY CF LAW
UNWERSITY OF TORONTO
University of Toronto
BEYOND UNIVERSALISM:
THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
(LAW708H1S)
Winter 2007-2008
Patrick Macklem
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BEYOND UNIVERSALISM:
THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
(LAW708H1S)
Winter 2007-2008
Patrick Macklem
Schedule: January 7 to 15, 2008
7 M: 6:10-8:10
8 T: 2:10-4:00
9 W: 2:10-4:00
10 Th: 4:10-6:10
11 F: 10:30-12:30
14 M: 1:10-3:40
15 T: 2:10-4:00
This course addresses the potential of international human rights law to move beyond its
traditional mission of protecting universal features of what it means to be a human being.
We will first explore the proposition that international human rights law should engage
more closely normative questions surrounding the allocation, distribution and protection
of sovereign authority, and orient its commitments toward the promotion of a just
international distribution of sovereign power. This part of the course will focus on the
role that cultural, minority, and indigenous rights, and the right of self-determination,
play in the promotion of a just international legal order. We will then assess whether and
how the field should strive to mitigate some of the adverse distributional consequences of
economic globalization. This part of the course will focus on the relationship between (i)
international economic and social rights, equality rights, labour rights, and rights to
development; and (ii) international legal commitments to the liberalization of trade,
services and investment. The course will relate both normative inquiries to legal and
institutional developments in United Nations Charter and treaty organizations, the
International Labour Organization, the Council of Europe, the European Union, the
World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. Readings for the course will juxtapose:
(a) decisions and views of international and regional human rights bodies; (b)
programmatic approaches adopted by regional and international institutions; and (c) the
work of selected legal and political theorists on the nature of sovereignty, nationalism,
cosmopolitanism, and international distributive justice.
Evaluation: Students will be required to write a 10-12 page research paper, which will
be graded on an Honours/Pass/Fail basis. Papers must be delivered to the Records Office
by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday February 5, 2008. Graduate students are graded on the graduate
grading scale.
Overview of the Field - Themes of the Course
Louis Henkm, “International Law: Politics, Values, and Functions”.1
Charles R. Beitz, “Human Rights and the Law of Peoples,” in D.K. Chatterlie (ed.).
The Ethic's of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004) 193-214 ...5
The Right of Self-Determination
Diane Orentlicher, “Separation Anxiety: International Responses to Ethno-Separatist
Claims” (1998) 23 Yale J. of Int’l Law 1.27
Reference Re: Secession of Quebec (1998) 161 D. L. R. (4th) 385 .37
Indigenous Peoples Rights
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.47
Minority Rights
Cba’are Shalom I re Tsedek v. Trance, European Court of Human Rights, 2000 .58
Francis Hopu and Tepoaitu Bessert v. Trance CCPR/C/60/D/549/1993/Rev. 1 (29 December,
1997) .69
Ivan Kitok v. Sweden CCPR/R/33/D//197/1985 (10 August, 1988) .79
Qminayak, Chief of the Rubicon Take Band v. Canada CCPR/C/38/D/167/1984 (5 October,
1990).85
Equality Rights
Aumeentddy-Cfffra et al. v. Mauritius (Communication no. 35/1978).89
T.H. Zwaan v. The Netherlands (Communication no. 182/1984) .92
Carl Henrik Blow v. Sweden (Communication no. 191/1985) .96
Ibrahima Gueye et al. v. Trance (Communication no. 196/1985) .98
Frederic Toin v. Trance (Communication no. 666/1995) .100
Alina Simunek et al. v. The Cpech Republic (communication no. 516/1992) .106
Joseph Kavanagh v. Ireland (Communication no 819/1998) .109
Social Rights
Yuval Shany, “Stuck in a Moment of Time: The International justiciability of Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights,” in Daphne Barak-Erez & Aeyal Gross (eds), Exploring Social
Rights: Between Theory and Practice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, forthcoming) 77-106 .114
Upendra Baxi, “Failed Decolonisation and the Future of Social Rights: Some Preliminary
Reflections,” in Daphne Barak-Erez & Aeyal Gross (eds), Exploring Social Brights: Between
Theory and Practice (Oxford: Hart Publishing, forthcoming) 75-89 .144
Labour Rights
Philip Alston, “’Core Labour Standards’ and the Transformation of the International Labour
Rights Regime” (2004) 15 EJIL 457-521.159
Brian Langille, “Core Labour Rights - The True Story (Reply to Alston)” (2005) 16 EJIL
409-437 .224
Philip Alston, “Facing Up to the Complexities of the ILO’s Core Labour Standards Agenda”
(2005) 16 EJIL 467-480 ... .253
The Right to Development
“Anthony Carty, “From the Right to Economic Self-Determination to the Right to
Development: A Crisis in Legal Theory” [1984] Third World Legal Studies 73 .267
Isabella D. Dunn, “The Right to Development: Implications for International Economic
Law” 15 Am. U. Int’lL. Rev. 1425 (2000) .281
Documents
Charter of the United Nations.324
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 335
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 340
Protocols to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.351
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.354
European Convention for die Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms.361
Protocols to the European Convention for the Protection of Fluman Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms. 371
International Labour Organisation Convention 98 . 374
Declaration on the Right to Development.380
