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We are excited to announce one more course of the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Program: Economic, Social, and Culture Rights
Learn from the expert: Flavia Piovesan, Former Commissioner and Rapporteur on the Rights of LGBTI Persons, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Organization of American States (OAS), Washington, D.C.
Don´t miss the opportunity to learn how to ensure the protection of economic, social, and cultural rights across international, regional, and national systems of human rights, and about its current relevance.
Don´t miss this opportunity!
Course: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - American University Washington College of Law
The course aims to critically evaluate the doctrinal concepts and practical strategies used by advocates to ensure the effective protection of economic, social, and cultural rights across international, regional, and national human rights systems. It introduces the basic building blocks and foundational structure of human rights law, often overlooked in traditional discussions of economic, social, and cultural rights. With the goal of recovering these foundations, the course critically examines the nature and content of states’ legal obligations, how these obligations inform rights analysis, and the instrumental purposes behind dominant methodologies of human rights protection.
This includes an examination of the concept of ‘justiciability,’ balancing tests, the relationship between remedies and case framing, and the connection between casework and regularized performance monitoring. The course explores these issues through practical applications across human rights systems. It discusses both direct and indirect approaches to social rights protections, the rationale behind their respective uses, and the standards of review applied by courts and treaty bodies in various jurisdictions.
The course then turns to system-specific applications, closely examining the reasoning and approaches used in relation to economic, social, and cultural rights by the U.N. Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the South African Constitutional Court, the Inter-American human rights bodies, and the European Court of Human Rights. The insights gained from these applications will then be applied to a fact pattern in a group exercise.
The third part of the course addresses conceptual issues at a more advanced level, including the relationships between economic, social and cultural rights, as well as concepts of equality, diversity, content, and implementation in public policies.
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Refunds:
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Administrative fees:
Registration of courses are subject to a $200 Administrative fee included in their cost. In the case of transferring to a different course than the one originally registered, an additional fee of $60 per course to change will be required.
Payments and fees:
For payments with credit cards, debit cards or bank accounts, the tuition cost includes a non-refundable 4% administrative fee. In case an eligible refund is requested, the net funds returned will be the tuition minus 4%.
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For Information about this course:
Please contact
Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
HRACADEMY@WCL.AMERICAN.EDU
(202) 274-4295