Required texts <\/p>\n
Ishay, Micheline R., The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008)<\/p>\n
Choose two of these four debate topics and give the three strongest arguments for and against. You may draw on any sources you wish, including readings, but I am most interested in your demonstrated capacity to make a case, including for a point of view you may not yourself hold.<\/p>\n
Your entire paper \u2013 the pro and con sections for both of the questions you choose \u2013 should aim for a length of no more than 1500 words, or approximately six double spaced pages.<\/p>\n
1. \u201cHate speech,\u201d which is aimed at a particular ethnicity, religion or gender, should be protected in most circumstances by U.S. and international law. <\/p>\n
2. The death penalty is warranted for the most horrific crimes and should be permissible under U.S. and international law.<\/p>\n
3. Non-citizens should have the right to cast votes in elections of the countries in which they are resident.<\/p>\n
4. While the state should not engage in discriminatory acts against women or gay people, this should not extend to the rights of families and religious groups, whose cultural and religious practices should be respected.<\/p>\n
Additional readings<\/p>\n
Diving deeper into the \u201cuniversality\u201d of human rights<\/p>\n
Critiques of human rights: from the left and from the right<\/p>\n
Readings: Ishay, pp. 273-279<\/p>\n
Moyn, Samuel, \u201cHow the Human Rights Movement Failed,\u201d New York Times, April 23, 2018<\/p>\n
Discussion with Jamal Greene on \u201cHow Rights Go Wrong\u201d, Columbia Law School<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman Rights Law and the Erosion of Politics,\u201d Noel Malcolm, The New Criterion, January 2016<\/p>\n
Freedom of speech: U.S. legal standards and debates<\/p>\n
Case study: Do neo-Nazis have the right to march in a neighborhood of concentration camp survivors? <\/p>\n
Readings:<\/p>\n
Notable U.S. free speech cases, the American Library Association<\/p>\n
Freedom of Speech and the Press, Geoffrey Stone and Eugene Volokh, National Constitution Center<\/p>\n
Reading: Listen to this podcast with Aryeh Neier and Emerson Sykes: https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/at-liberty\/id1396174920?i=1000525833824<\/p>\n
Free speech: international legal standards and debates<\/p>\n
Case study: Hate radio and genocide in Rwanda<\/p>\n
Readings: <\/p>\n
Spend some time on these websites: Article 19 https:\/\/www.article19.org\/ and Human Rights Watch (free speech section) https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/free-speech<\/p>\n
Propaganda and Practice (excerpt from Human Rights Watch report)<\/p>\n
Music To Kill By — Rwandan Genocide Survivors Remember RTLM (Al Jazeera article)<\/p>\n
Criminal justice: policing, drug policy, mass incarceration, the death penalty<\/p>\n
Readings <\/p>\n
The rights of immigrants and refugees<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s rights<\/p>\n
Case study, approaching \u201cfemale genital mutilation\u201d<\/p>\n
Frontiers of human rights: artificial intelligence, environment and other issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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