This course is aimed at introducing the students to the main important principles, concepts and categories of contemporary International Human Rights Law (IHRL). It covers major significant aspects of this crucial branch of International Law including its historical development, its theory as well as practice. This particular course will provide a systemic description of IHRL as it is presently understood by the majority of international lawyers. Starting with the concept of human rights proper, its emergence, historical evolution and philosophical basis (human dignity, freedom, equality), the course will encompass and discuss the following issues: human rights categories and generations, selected individual and collective rights, International Bill of Human Rights, main principles and subjects of IHRL, its key treaty instruments, the United Nations human rights protection system, existing human rights protection mechanisms, remedies for human rights violations, domestic implementation of IHRL as well as relationship between human rights and rule of law. Students will thus be offered a general comprehensive picture of how, at present, IHRL fits into contemporary international legal order as an important tool in ensuring fairness and bringing justice in response to the commission of human rights violations.
- Teacher: Rustam Atadjanov