LAW - 739 Advanced Human Rights Seminar

(3 hrs.)

Analysis of the protection of basic rights during emergency situations and noninternational armed conflicts; the concept of public emergencies and the permissible derogations under U.S., Council of Europe, OAS, and Geneva conventions; special norms concerning due process; country studies; the role of nongovernmental organizations; supervisory and remedial machinery at the universal and regional levels; methods and proposals for fostering greater state compliance with basic human rights during emergency situations. Goldman