News and Events 2006

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

SPRING 2006 SEMINARS

Each year in conjunction with the Institute for International Law and Justice, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice organizes several seminars to prepare International Law and Human Rights Student Fellows for upcoming summer internships. These seminars are open to all NYU law students on condition that they prepare in advance by completing required readings. The schedule of the internships, with some readings yet to be provided, is below.

Note:  The seminars are not listed in chronological order.

OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Lecturer: Smita Narula and Meg Satterthwaite
Date: Thursday, March 23
Time: 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 334
Mandatory: All Fellows who have not taken an international human rights law course
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings:
• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm
• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm
• The Nature of States Parties Obligations, General Comment 3, U.N. CESCR, 5th Sess. (1990) http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/94bdbaf59b43a424c12563ed0052b664?Opendocument • The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant, Draft General Comment, U.N. CCPR, Human Rights Committee, 78th Sess. (2003) http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/f12e2228d384b536c1256d1d003b854f?Opendocument
• The Right to Food, General Comment 12: http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/3d02758c707031d58025677f003b73b9?OpenDocument
• General Recommendation XXIX on Article I, Paragraph 1, of the Convention (Descent), CERD Committee, 61st Sess. (2002) http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/f0902ff29d93de59c1256c6a00378d1f?Opendocument
• Statute of the International Court of Justice, Articles 37 and 38.
• Henry J. Steiner & Philip Alston, International Human Rights in Context (2nd ed., 2000), Chap. 2(a) pages 59-81 and Chap. 3(c), pages 224-236.

OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ON REFUGEES
Lecturer: Jayne Huckerby
Date: Wednesday, March 1
Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 326
Mandatory: All Fellows who have internships at UNHCR*
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students
*Fellows for UNHCR placements will additionally be required to undertake a  project in cooperation with Human Rights First which is being organized separately with the relevant fellows.
Readings: MORE TO COME
• 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, giving specific attention to Articles 31, 33, 34 and 35 of the Convention. http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home?page=PROTECT&id=3c0762ea4

OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW I
Lecturer: Roy Schondorf
Date: Wednesday, February 15
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 110
Mandatory: All Fellows with internships at: ICTJ, ICTR, ICTY, CSVR, CDD Ghana, HLC, IDEH-PUCP, TJI
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings (in order of importance):
• Martti Koskenniemi "Between Impunity and Show Trials" available at: http://www.icc-cpi.int/library/organs/otp/20040805Koskenniemi.pdf
• Mutua, Makau (2000). "From Nuremberg to the Rwanda Tribunal: Justice or Retribution?" Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, 6, 77-91
• Cassese, From Nuremberg to Rome: International Military tribunals to the International Criminal Court, in The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (edited by: Cassese, Gaeta and Jones) (Oxford university Press, 2002), pp. 3-20
• Non-mandatory: The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• Non-mandatory: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Rules of Procedure and Evidence

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW II
Lecturer: Roy Schondorf
Date: Wednesday, March 8
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 110
Mandatory: All Fellows with internships at: ICTJ, ICTR, ICTY, CSVR, CDD Ghana, HLC, IDEH-PUCP, TJI
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings: TO COME

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW III
Lecturer: Roy Schondorf
Date: Wednesday, April 5
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 110
Mandatory: All Fellows with internships at: ICTJ, ICTR, ICTY, CSVR, CDD Ghana, HLC, IDEH-PUCP, TJI
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings: TO COME

INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION I: Reservation to treaties, unilateral acts of states and effects of armed conflicts on treaties
Lecturer: Dr. Jean d’Aspremont Lynden
Date: Friday, March 10
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Room 201
Mandatory: All Fellows with internship placements at the ILC
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings:
For all ILC seminars:
• 2005 Report of the International Law Commission (A/60/10) [fifty-seventh session] http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2005/2005report.htm [read the entire report]
• Michael J. Matheson "The Fifty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission", American Journal of International Law 98 (2005), pp. 211-221 [please take note that this only relates to the 2004 report].

Reservations to treaties (Special Rapporteur Alain Pellet)
• Ryan Goodman, "Human Rights Treaties, Invalid Reservations, and State Consent", American Journal of International Law 96 (2002), pp 531-560.
Further readings - optional
• Moloney, Roslyn, Incompatible Reservations to Human Rights Treaties: Severability and the Problem of State Consent, 5 Melb. J. Int'l L. 155 (2004) (14 pages)
• Klabbers, Jan, Accepting the Unacceptable - A New Nordic Approach to Reservations to Multilateral Treaties, 69 Nordic J. Int'l L. 179 (2000) (16 pages)

Unilateral acts of States (Special Rapporteur Victor Rodriguez Cedeno)
• Wilfried Fiedler, "Unilateral Acts of States", in Encyclopedia of Public International Law (R. Bernhardt, ed.), vol. IV, 2000, pp. 1018-102
Further readings - optional
• Jean d’Aspremont, "Les travaux de la Commission du droit international relatifs aux actes unilatéraux des Etats", Revue generale de droit international public, 2005/1.

Effects of War on Treaties (Special Rapporteur I. Brownlie)
• First report of the Special Rapporteur on the topic, Mr. Ian Brownlie, (A/CN.4/552): http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N05/250/71/PDF/N0525071.pdf?OpenElement

INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION II: Responsibility of international organizations, fragmentation of international law and shared national resources
Lecturer: Stephen Humphreys
Date: Friday, April 7
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 334
Mandatory: All Fellows with internship placements at the ILC
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings: MORE TO COME
For all ILC seminars:
• 2005 Report of the International Law Commission (A/60/10) [fifty-seventh session] http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2005/2005report.htm [read the entire report]
• Michael J. Matheson "The Fifty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission", American Journal of International Law 98 (2005), pp. 211-221 [please take note that this only relates to the 2004 report].

INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION III: Diplomatic protection, expulsion of aliens, and obligation to extradite or to prosecute.
Lecturer: Benjamin Straumann
Date: Friday, April 7
Time: 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 334
Mandatory: All Fellows with internship placements at the ILC
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings: MORE TO COME
For all ILC seminars:
• 2005 Report of the International Law Commission (A/60/10) [fifty-seventh session] http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2005/2005report.htm [read the entire report]
• Michael J. Matheson "The Fifty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission", American Journal of International Law 98 (2005), pp. 211-221 [please take note that this only relates to the 2004 report].

RESEARCH ON INTERNATIONAL AND FOREIGN LAW
Lecturer: Mirela Roznovschi, Reference Librarian for International and Foreign Law, Law Library
Date: Thursday, April 6
Time: 4:00 PM TO 6:00 PM
Location: Furman Hall, Room 326
Mandatory: All Fellows who are first year law students
Optional: All other Fellows and all NYU law students

Readings:
• Accidental Tourist on the New Frontier: an introductory guide to global legal research / edited by Jeanne Rehberg & Radu D. Popa. Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman, 1998. Part II. Chapter Four: Finding foreign Law. Part III: International Law, Reserve K85 .A27 1998
• Toward a Cyberlegal Culture / Mirela Roznovschi. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, c2002.: Chapter 2.: Legal Research on the Frontier of Innovation. (International and foreign law); Reserve K87 .R69 2002

PRACTICAL INFORMATION SESSION*
Lecturer: Tish Armstrong
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Mandatory: All Fellows

*Note: Fellows who are JDs are also required to attend a meeting organized by PILC as a PIC Grant requirement entitled “Security Briefing and Practical Information before Going Abroad” on Monday, April 10,12:35 to 1:35 PM in Furman 214, notice of which is being separately given.

Patricia Armstrong
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
New York University School of Law
110 West Third Street, Room 204
New York, NY 10012, USA
Phone: 1-212-992-8903
E-mail: armstron@juris.law.nyu.edu
http://www.chrgj.org