POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: United Nations Economic And Social Council, Horseferry Road, De Jure
22 Apr 2017
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Lecture 13: international human rights law part i (january 5th, 2017) Class outline: history and theory, concept of rights, precursors of international human rights laws, overview of human rights system, united nations, regional, substantive content of ihrl, iccpr: respect and ensure , icescr: progressive realization , limitations and provisions, derogations. History and theory of international human rights law. How do you guarantee it: rights vs. morality, custom religion. Natural law: body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct, via moral legitimacy. Positivist view: only rights we have are those we implement through law, legal positivism sets itself up against natural law arguments, via legislative legitimacy, relationship between individuals and authority. States: primary guarantors and violators of human rights, competing conceptions. Negative rights: a right prohibiting the action of an individual over another, e. g. the negative right to refrain from killing another.
