Subject to competing responsibilities, Professor Weston is available to teach these and related subjects worldwide.
Brief descriptions follow.
The course is divided into three parts. The course introduces the student to the established and developing legal rules and procedures governing the protection of international human rights. Its thesis is that there exists a substantial body of substantive and procedural International Human Rights Law, and that lawyers, judges, government officials, and concerned citizens should be familiar with the policies underlying this law and its enforcement, as well as with the potential it offers for improving the basic lot of human beings everywhere. The first half of the course considers the leading human rights issues confronting the contemporary world community. The second half of the course considers the principal ways in which the world community goes about enforcing human rights, at the global, regional, and national levels, and then via the private sector.