Rule of Law and Human Rights

The object of the course will be the study of human rights in international law, including both pertinent legal rules and international mechanisms aimed at ensuring effectiveness of such rights. The global and the regional dimension will be dealt with during the course, and particular attention will be paid to the regional human rights systems and to the case law of the monitoring bodies established by the relevant regional human rights treaties. The final part of the course will be devoted to the discussion of the influence played by cultural diversities and by the different conceptions of human rights on the concrete realization of the latter.