Lesson plan / HUMAN RIGHTS (ECHR AND CASE LAW)

Lesson Information

Course Credit 2.0
Course ECTS Credit 3.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Programme Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? S
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The objective of this course is to analyze the historical development of fundamental human rights and freedoms, classification of these rights and freedoms, the documents which have an international character, ways to protect human rights and freedoms in domestic laws, and supranational protection mechanisms.
Course Content The course covers the topics of ensuring the protection of human rights both in national and international arena. International Labor Organization, European Social Charter and their relationships with Turkey will be discussed in terms of social and economic rights. European Convention on Human Rights, its organizational structure, supervision mechanism and its effects on Turkey will be analyzed.

Weekly Course Subjects

1The concept of human rights, concepts of right and freedom
2Formal analysis of rights, material analysis of rights, philosophical bases of rights
3Basic features of human rights
4The idea of human rights in the Antiquity and the Middle Age.
5Developments from the early modern period until the 20th century and the idea of human rights
6Efforts for the international protection of human rights, developments in the 20th century, the activities in the UN period
7Analysis of international documents on economic, social, political and personal rights
8Universal Declaration of Human Rights
9Limitations on rights and freedoms
10Protection methods of human rights and freedoms
11Protection ways and methods in domestic law
12Supranational protection mechanisms
13European Convention on Human Rights,the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), American and African Conventions on Human Rights
14Judiciary system of ECHR and Turkey (Analysis of case laws)

Resources

Mehmet Semih Gemalmaz, Ulusal üstü İnsan hakları hukukunun genel teorisine giriş
İbrahim Ö. Kaboğlu, Kollektif Özgürlükler
Feyyaz Gölcüklü ve A. Şeref Gözübüyük, Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi İnceleme ve Yargılama Yöntemi