LAW, RIGHTS & SOCIAL CHANGE - COURSEWORK RE-SUBMISSION - AUGUST 2022

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Deadlines

AS1

Week 1: Law, Rights and Social Change : Introduction to the Module

George, J. 'A Lesson on Critical Race Theory' (2021)

Feeley, M, Foreword to Scheingold, S. 'The Politics of Rights' (2nd.Ed.)(2004)

Week 2: Law, Rights & Social Change: Some Theoretical Perspectives

Rosenberg, Krishnaswamy &amp; Bail, Introduction, 'A Qualified Hope - The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change' (2019)

Parnesh, S. 'Rights and Social Change' (2012)

POWERPOINT - Approaches to Law - Law, Liberation and Oppression

PowerPoint - Law &amp; Social Change - Scheingold

Further reading: Dror, Y., 'Law and Social Change' (1958/9)

Further reading: Engle Merry, S. (1991), 'Law and Colonialism'

Week 3: Law as a Tool of Oppression: Case study - South Africa under apartheid

John Dugard, 'Human Rights, Apartheid, and Lawyers' (1992)

Budlender, G., 'The Development of the Public Interest Law Movement in South Africa'

Ellmann, S, 'To Resign or Not to Resign?' (1997)

From the BBC Archive: Documentary - 'The Heart of Apartheid'

Documentary (20 mins) about the life experience of Sandra Laing

New item from 1991 (4 mins.) 'Apartheid Laws Scrapped'

Week 4: Do Rights Have 'Built-In Boundaries'? Racism: South Africa case study

South Africa - Final Constitution 1996

Budlender, G. (2014), 'Twenty Years of Democracy: The State of Human Rights in South Africa'

Madlingozi, T., 'Post-Apartheid Social Movements and the Quest for the Elusive 'New' South Africa (2007)

Jackie Dugard - 'Judging the Judges: Towards an Appropriate Role for the Judiciary in SA's Transformation' (2007)

South Africa documentary: 'Law and Freedom'

SA Constitutional Court judgment - Minister of Health v TAC - 2002

SA Constitutional Court judgment - Govt of the RSA v Grootboom - Oct. 2000

Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg - Constitutional Court of South Africa (2009)

Tembeka Ngcukaithobi S.C. - Keynote speech, 'The Land Is Ours' (2020)

Discussion: 'Can Constitutionalism Heal the Past, Regulate the Future and Deliver a Just Future?' (2019)

Justice Edwin Cameron, 'What You Can Do With Rights' (Scarman Lecture, 2012)

Link to the website of SERI (Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa)

PowerPoint; Law, Rights and Racism - South Africa case study

Week 5: Do Rights Have Built-In Boundaries? Rights, Patriarchy and the 'Private Sphere': Domestic Violence

Chinkin, C., 'A Critique of the Public/Private Dimension (1999)

Marcus, I., Reframing Domestic Violence as Torture or Terrorism (2014)

Domestic violence - ECtHR Judgment - Opuz v Turkey (2009)

CEDAW - General Recommendation No.19 (1992) - VAW

CEDAW - General Recommendation No.35 (2017) - GBV (Updating GR No.19)

Council of Europe Convention on VAW and Domestic Violence 2011

African Charter - Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa

The Singapore Women's Charter: Family Violence: Personal Protection Orders

Bernarte et al (2018), Violence Against Women in the Philippines

Vetten, L. - Domestic Violence in South Africa (2014)

South Africa - Domestic Violence Act 1998

CEDAW Report 2021 - DV in South Africa

Kuwait - The 'Abolish 153' movement/campaign

Kuwait - First appointments of Women to the Judiciary

Kuwait - Brighter Future Beckons for Domestic Violence Sufferers - 2020

Kuwait's Ongoing Struggle Against Gender Violence - 2021

As Kuwait Cracks Down, a Battle Erupts Over Women's Rights - 2022

Week 3: Access to Justice and Public Interest Litigation

Week 5: LGBT Rights, PIL and the Colonial Legal Legacy

Week 7: Rights and Capitalism: Business and Human Rights

Moyn, S., 'A Powerless Companion: HumanRights in the Age of Neoliberalism' (2014)

Addo, M. &amp; Martin, J., 'The Evolving Business and Society Landscape: Can Human Rights Make a Difference?' (2015)

Bilchitz, D. 'On the Necessity for a Treaty on Business and Human Rights

UN Guiding Principles on Business &amp; Human Rights

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre - web page with links to drafts of the new treaty and debates around them

Zorob, M., 'The Lengthy Journey Towards a Treaty on Business and Human Rights' (2019)

Note on the UK Supreme Court judgment in the Vedanta case (April 2019)

Podcast - Richard Meeran on Civil Litigation for Grave Abuses and the 'Remedy Gap'

Week 8: International Law: Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution, or Both?

Mutua, M., 'Savages, Victims &amp; Saviours' (2001)

Kennedy, D., 'The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?'

Kennedy, D, 'The International Human Rights Regime: Still Part of the Problem?'

Conversation with Dr Surabhi Ranganathan: Decolonisation, Oceans and International Law

Interview with Dr Itamar Mann: Using International Law in Strategic Litigation

Williams, PJ, 'Alchemical Notes' - Minority Critiques of the CLS Movement - (1987)

Mutua, M., 'What is TWAIL?' (2000)

Anghie, A &amp; Chimni, BS, 'TWAIL and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflicts' (2003)

Week 9: Lawyers under Authoritarianism: The People's Republic of China

Rosenberg, Krishnaswamy & Bail, Introduction, 'A Qualified Hope - The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change' (2019)

PowerPoint - Law & Social Change - Scheingold

Addo, M. & Martin, J., 'The Evolving Business and Society Landscape: Can Human Rights Make a Difference?' (2015)

UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights

Mutua, M., 'Savages, Victims & Saviours' (2001)

Anghie, A & Chimni, BS, 'TWAIL and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflicts' (2003)