Class Meetings:
V3001x Tuesday, Thursday 6:10-7:25
G4020x Tuesday 6:10-7:25, 7:35-8:30
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
are endowed with reason and conscience should act toward one another in
a spirit of brotherhood.
Universal Decl. of Human Rights
Human rights have been subjects of ardent advocacy, and extensive international and national legal reforms. Those reforms have drawn on worldwide experience. They have been met with support, repudiation, and massive violations of human rights, including in conflicts overleaping peaceful bounds at great human cost, and in the essential but flawed processes of globalization. The course's main parts take up:
- Theories of Rights and Equality in a Divided West
- Human Rights Movements: From Struggle and Ideology to Law
- Universality Challenged (including American (U.S.) exceptionalism)
- Practice Within States: Identity and Human Rights
- Practice Among States: Accountability and Global Forces