POLI 260 - Human Rights in Context

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

This course exposes students to the legal reality that engulfs human rights movements and actors. The course through conversations with human rights activists, human rights dissent in the form of text and art as well as landmark cases brings to life the everyday struggle for human rights on the ground and in context. Through the work of Sally Engle Merry, Upendra Baxi, Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, and others the course speaks to the vernacularization of human rights in different contexts. It is from examining the granular detail of human rights in context that students are encouraged to engage with international human rights law and its future in times of multiple crises of inequality, rising populism, and climate change. The course introduces students to how human rights serve as a framing concept and vocabulary for injustices being experienced across different geographies and their associated limitations in these times of crisis. Arpitha Kodiveri.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS