Courses in the Winter Semester 2024/25
Inter-American Human Rights System, Flávia Oliveira Ribeiro [in English]
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS), focusing on the structure, practices, and role of the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The course curriculum includes an analysis of the organizational roles and functions of both the Commission and the Court, detailing their procedures for handling petitions and monitoring compliance.
Throughout the semester, the course will also examine specific human rights topics addressed by the IAHRS, such as the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, the challenges of forced migration and refugee status, and gender equality and women's rights. Significant cases and decisions of the Inter-American Court and Commission will be analyzed to understand their impact and the process of implementation of these decisions in the member states.
A comparative perspective with the European Court of Human Rights will be integrated into the course to highlight the differences and similarities in the operations and structures of these two regional systems. This comparative approach will help contextualize the IAHRS within the broader landscape of international human rights protection mechanisms.
Overall, the course aims to provide a thorough understanding of the Inter-American Human Rights System, its impact on national laws and practices across the continent, and its relevance to current human rights debates.
- Tuesday: 10-11:30 a.m.
- Registration & Information: Klips 2.0
Courses in the Summer Semester 2024
Grundrechte, Prof. Dr. DDr. Angelika Nußberger [in German]
The subject of the lecture are the fundamental rights of the German constitution, which protect the entire individual legal sphere (life and limb, freedom, equality, property, etc.) from the power of the state, including the legislature, and furthermore permeate the entire legal order. Today they are of decisive importance for the understanding of all fields of law and therefore form a particularly important element of legal studies; at the same time they are of elementary importance for the understanding of one's own personal position in the constitutional order. The lecture deals with the general doctrines of fundamental rights, namely the fundamental significance of fundamental rights, their factual and personal scope of application, their mode of operation, the possibilities of limiting them and the requirements to be observed in doing so, then the individual fundamental rights as well as the rights equivalent to fundamental rights. The jurisprudence of the Federal Constitutional Court, which is not only important in practice, is taken as a basis and, where necessary, critically evaluated.
- Monday: 4:00-5:30 p.m. & Tuesday: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
- Registration: Klips 2.
Fundamentals of Public International Law in the 21st Century, Dr Júlia Miklasová [in Englisch]
This course covers the key doctrines and foundational concepts of public international law (including subjects, law-making, fundamental principles, responsibility, jurisdiction). It presents these concepts not only in a traditional perspective, but also in light of current transformations and challenges that question some of the international law’s key assumptions. Each tutorial exemplifies a specific theme under investigation through a closer examination and discussion of a specific case or a contemporary real-life case study.
- Monday: 1:00-1:30 p.m.
- Registration & Information: Klips 2.0
Constitutional Law in Islamic Countries, Reza Khabook [in English]
Classes will be taught through a mix of frontal lectures, guided discussion and case studies. First, students will acquire basic knowledge about Islam and Muslim countries in order to have a clear picture of the subject. After this introductory session, the sources of Islamic law and its position in the modern era will be evaluated. Later, we will begin to study the fundamental legal principles and Islamic legal system approach towards them. Finally, some Muslim countries will be studied and analyzed based on the knowledge we have acquired during the course. Moreover, before each session, students should read compulsory readings. In addition, in order to integrate students with the topic, every week one student should present a legal matter in a Muslim country in 5 to 10 minutes.
The aim of this course is to explore the legal system of Islamic countries- particularly their constitutional law system. In this course, we will study subjects such as foundations of Islamic law, sources of Islamic law, the law in Islamic countries- constitutional law, criminal law and civil law-, and contemporary legal issues in Islamic countries like human rights and women’s rights. The main approach of the course is to look at the legal system of Islamic countries through the lenses of comparative law with a critical approach based on the modern legal systems.
- Thurdsday: 3:00- 4:30 p.m.
- Registration & Information: Klips 2.0
International Law I, Prof. Dr. DDr. Angelika Nußberger [in German]
The subject of the lecture are the basics of international law such as the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The purpose of the lecture is to bring the students closer to the topics of international law beyond the material of the basic studies and to deal with the problems scientifically and critically.
- Monday: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
- Registration: Klips 2.0
International Law II, Prof. Dr. DDr. Angelika Nußberger [in German]
The lecture follows on from the lecture International Law I. In addition to the basic principles of international law (e.g. universal prohibition of the use of force, prohibition of intervention, peaceful settlement of disputes), the law of the United Nations, the regional and universal protection of human rights as well as diplomatic and consular law are dealt with.
- Mondays: 4:45-7:15 p.m.
- Registration: klips2.0