Universität Wien

030497 SE Seminar in International Law (2011S)

for undergraduate and graduate students

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

VB: 9.3. 15:00 bis 16:00
Online-Anmeldung via e-learning(moodle): 10.2.2011 bis 9.3.2011

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 09.03. 15:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum SEM52 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum 5.OG
  • Wednesday 25.05. 15:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum SEM31 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 3.OG
  • Friday 17.06. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum SEM53 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum 5.OG
  • Saturday 18.06. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum SEM53 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum 5.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Presentation and discussion of the topics selected by the participants

Assessment and permitted materials

Seminarpaper, presentations, participation in discussions

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Analysis of new developments in the field of Investment and human rights and responsibility of TNC's for human rights violations.

Examination topics

Seminarpaper, presentations, discussion

Reading list

LITERATUR

Report of the UN Special Representative on Human Rights and
Business, 9 February 2007, available at
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/SRSGreport-
Human-Rights-Council-19-Feb-2007.pdf
Human Rights Principles and Responsibilities for
Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises,
U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/WG.2/WP.1 (2002) (available
at http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/principlesWOutCommentary5final.
html)
Human Rights Principles and Responsibilities for
Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises,
Introduction, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/WG.2/WP.1, Add.
1 (2002) (available at
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/introduction05-01-
02final.html)
Human Rights Principles and Responsibilities for
Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises
with Commentary on the Principles, U.N. Doc.
E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/WG.2/WP.1, Add. 2 (2002) (available at
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/PrinciplesWithCommentary5
final.html)
International Council on Human Rights, Beyond Voluntarism.
Human Rights and the developing international legal
obligations of companies (available at
http://www.hapinternational.org/hapgeneva/pdf/ichrpORG41.
pdf)
Alston Ph. (ed.), Non-State Actors and Human Rights (Oxford
University Press, 2005)
Bottomley St. and Kinley D. (eds) Commercial Law and Human
Rights (Ashgate/Dartmouth Publishing 2002)
Clapham A., Human rights obligations of non-state actors
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Kamminga M. and Zia-Zarifi S. (eds), Liability of Multinational
Corporations Under International Law (Kluwer 2000)
Muchlinski P.T., Multinational Enterprises and the Law
(Blackwell Publishing, 2nd ed. 2007)
Bottomley St., Corporations and Human Rights, in Bottomley
St. and Kinley D. (eds) Commercial Law and Human Rights
(Ashgate/Dartmouth Publishing 2002)
Joseph S., An Overview of the Human Rights Accountability of
Multinational Enterprises, in Kamminga M. and Zia-Zarifi S.
(eds), Liability of Multinational Corporations Under
International Law (Kluwer 2000)
Kriebaum U., Privatizing Human Rights ¿ The Interface
between International Investment Protection and Human
Rights, in: Reinisch/Kriebaum (eds), The Law of International
Relations ¿ Liber Amicorum Hanspeter Neuhold, 165-189
(2007)
¿The Concept of Property in Human Rights Law and International Investment Law¿, in S. Breitenmoser ua (Hsrg.), Liber Amicorum Luzius Wildhaber, Human Rights Democracy and the Rule of Law, 2007, S. 743-762, (gemeinsam mit C. Schreuer).
¿Regulatory Takings: Balancing the Interests of the Investor and the State¿, 8 The Journal of World Investment & Trade 2007, S. 717-744.
¿Indirekte Enteignung oder zulässige Regulierung?¿, in: G. Nolte/P. Hilpold (Hrsg.), Auslandsinvestitionen ¿ Entwicklung großer Kodifikationen ¿ Fragmentierung des Völkerrechts, 2008, S. 18-37.
¿Is the European Court of Human Rights an Alternative to Investor-State Arbitration?¿, in Transnational Dispute Settlement, March 2009
McCorquodale R., Human Rights and Global Business, in
Bottomley St. and Kinley D. (eds) Commercial Law and Human
Rights (Ashgate/Dartmouth Publishing 2002)
Muchlinski P., Human Rights and Multinationals ¿ Is There A
Problem? 77 International Affairs 31 (2001)
Petersmann E.U., Human Rights and International Economic
Law in the 21st Century: The Need to Clarify their
Interrelationships, 4 JIEL 3 (2001)
Reinisch A., The Changing International Legal Framework for
Dealing with Non-State Actors, in Alston Ph. (ed.), Non-State
Actors and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2005), 37-
89
Weiler T., Balancing Human Rights and Investor Protection: A
New Approach for a Different Legal Order, 1 Transnational
Dispute Management (2004)

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