HISTORY 2702 - Liberty,National Rights,and Human Rights:The Origins and Implications of Human Rights Law,Institutions,and Policy in the Modern Period

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Bard College

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GIS Both the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the successor conventions that ultimately formed the International Bill of Human Rights were created in reaction to the problems of genocide and mass population transfers during World War II. This course begins by examining the fatal gaps in the previous system of nationally instantiated "universal" rights as they were initiallydeveloped in Europe. Topics include the creation of national rights from the treaty of Westphalia through the British, American, and French revolutions, and the relation of these rights to colonial administration; the postwar institutions of human rights; the relation of human rights to hegemonic power; and the roles of media, systems of organization (passports, criminal archives), and police as modern transnational phenomena that are intimately connected with the development and fate of enforcing human rights norms. The role of international NGOs in both monitoring human rights and criticizing the state of existing human rights law is also considered.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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