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GOVT 3635 - [Human Rights and Global Justice]

(crosslisted) AMST 3635  
(HB) (SBA-AS)      


Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.

A. M. Smith.

Topic: Political Theory Perspectives

In this course, we will move between the study of (1) general concepts of justice and human rights: liberty rights; political rights; and social rights (such as the right to education); (2) concrete problems pertaining to the interpretation of international human rights agreements and U.S. constitutional law; and (3) contemporary moral/legal controversies, including the legal vulnerability of the homeless and unauthorized immigrant children, and our moral duties toward them; the legal status of enhanced interrogation techniques, including torture; the normative debates on multiculturalism, women’s rights, and cosmopolitanism; the possibilities of building a global civil society; and the moral obligations of citizens in the developed world with respect to the least advantaged in the developing countries.



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