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Esperanza Hernández-Truyol Levin Mabie & Levin Professor of Law Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625 e-mail: hernandez@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0928 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Courses
- LAW 6260 - International
Law (3 credits)
Introduction to international law as applied by and between the United States and other nations. Focuses on exploring current questions of international law, just what international law is, and whether it can be called law at all. Using current legal, social and political commentary, as well as case law, a number of areas will be explored including creation of norms through treaties and agreements, state and non-state actors in the international arena, foreign sovereign immunity and the act of state doctrine, allocation of legal authority among states, and state responsibility with respect to injury to aliens and international human rights.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6930 - International
Human Rights Law (3 credits)
Introduction to the topic, including the historical, theoretical and practical aspects. Reviews “global snapshots” – a series of current events – and historical documents that form foundation for the international human rights system. Traces pre-World War II status of human rights and post-war developments. Particular attention is given to sources of international law (including human rights) in the U.S. and the role of global norms in local legal systems, leading to an interrogation of whether the international human rights system has changed the concept of state sovereignty and whether the rights that have evolved constitute a universal conceptualization or whether they are culturally relative. Brief review of the structures that exist for implementation and enforcement of rights – both internationally and regionally. Also discussion of a number of particular topics in the human rights field and themes of current interest/concern – including human rights and war, trade and human rights, and globalization and human rights.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6936 - Human Rights
(2 credits)
Seminar presents international human rights system and explores range of human rights issues. Themes studied may include speech, sex, race, children, health, globalization, democracy, the environment, citizenship, education, language, poverty, culture, health, war, property, family and violence. Specific topics covered are dependent upon student interest.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6936 - Trade and
Human Rights (2 credits)
Seminar explores premises of trade and human rights debate from perspectives of both free trade advocates and human rights activists, with the purpose of imparting a better understanding of the rationales for both systems of law and the ways each is attempting to avoid a clash that could have profound impact on the protection of human rights and on the global market. Attempts to answer the question: Must trade and human rights regimes necessarily conflict?
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6936 - Globalization
and the Rule of Law in the Americas: Trade, Labor and
the Environment (3 credits)
Seminar explores implications of globalization and in particular the emerging role of nongovernmental organizations, civil society, and the potential for direct consumer enforced labor and environmental standards. Academic studies and commentaries on globalization are reviewed in parallel with news reports and commentaries on current developments in trade, labor and the environment in the Americas. The goal is to gain a realistic understanding of the potential for sustainable democracy, as well as working criteria for hemisphere-wide rule of law.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6936 - International
Human Rights: Women in the Americas (3 credits)
Seminar reviews basics of the international human rights regime and the inter-American regional system (including the OAS) as well as the trade regimes – WTO, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and the proposed FTAA – as they intersect with human rights and specifically women. Covers specific topics that coincide with students’ writing projects. Range of topics include women and their relationship with family, the state (representation, democracy), the global economy (labor, trade, etc.), armed conflict, globalization, education, the environment, the rule of law, intersectionalities (gender, race including indigenous populations, class, sex, sexuality, religion), culture, property, violence, and health.
Prerequisites: None.