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W74 LAW 713FInternational Criminal Justice and Human Rights Practice3.0 Units
Description:The practice of international criminal justice and human rights has evolved dramatically over the past several decades, from exhumation of mass graves in Rwanda and Srebenica during the 1990s to conducting digital investigation of social media content depicting recent atrocities in Syria and Ukraine. This course aims to introduce students to both law and practice. To do this, the course takes a case study approach and uses a hybrid structure. First, it will provide substantive grounding on key aspects of international criminal law or international human rights law implicated in specific case studies, such as atrocities committed in Bosnia, Myanmar, Chad, Ukraine and Ethiopia. We will also cover relevant institutions and processes engaged in the implementation or enforcement of international law in these contexts. Second, the course offers a practical component through which student teams will first learn about documentation, accountability, and advocacy approaches relevant to the case studies, as well as ethical considerations that arise in the course of this work. Students will then be assigned to live projects with the Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration (Institute for Public Health). Projects will include technical support to ongoing atrocity investigations; development of practical guidance for legal and humanitarian actors responding to conflict-related sexual violence; and multi-disciplinary research focused on international justice systems or atrocity survivors' needs and experiences. Global experts will provide historical and practical perspective throughout the semester. Students will be graded based on individual class participation, a mid-term evaluation, and project-based workproduct (eg, legal memos, country conditions research, qualitative analysis of open source and interview data, etc.). Prerequisites: International Human Rights or International Criminal Law strongly recommended, though not required. 3 credits.
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Course Type:HomeSame As:S60 7130Frequency:None / History
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