Transnational Human Rights and Globalisation- Period 2 Social Sciences & Humanities Program Fall 2020 Semester - Amsterdam

This course complements (but does not overlap with) the course on Human Rights Protection in Europe. That course covers the European Convention of Human Rights, whereas this one will cover the transnational human rights framework. As such it will focus on the differences, similarities and interactions between human rights law from different legal orders, such as established by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the American Convention on Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and People?s Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, and the European Social Charter. The course uses five thematic areas of transnational legal regulation to study substantive aspects of contemporary human rights law, such as scope, enforcement, individual complaint procedures, the question of extraterritorial obligations by states, the increasing emphasis on socio-economic rights in international human rights, the responsibility of non-state actors such as cities and multinational corporations for safeguarding human rights, and the judicialisation of political claims by civil society actors that seek to engage legal institutions in order to bring about social change.

The five thematic areas that are used to analyse developments in transnational human rights law are:
1. Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations
2. Social Justice and Global Inequality
3. Transnational Regulation of Migration
4. Transnational Criminal Law
5. Global Health and Human Rights

Contact hours listed under a course description may vary due to the combination of lecture-based and independent work required for each course therefore, CEA's recommended credits are based on the ECTS credits assigned by VU Amsterdam. 1 ECTS equals 28 contact hours assigned by VU Amsterdam.