• E4J University Module Series: Counter-Terrorism

• Module 7: Counter-Terrorism and Situations of Public Emergency

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Limitations permitted by human rights law
  • Derogation in times of public emergency
  • Examples of terrorism related states of emergency and derogations

• Exercises and case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• References

 

Published in July 2018.

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

International human rights framework          

• Hafner-Burton, Emilie M., Laurence R. Helfer, and Christopher J. Fariss (2011). " Emergency and Escape: Explaining Derogations from Human Rights Treaties." International Organization, vol.65, issue 4, pp. 673-707.
• International Commission of Jurists (2009). Assessing Damage: Urging Action: Report of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights. Executive Summary. Geneva.
• Lehmann, Julian M. (2011). " Limits to Counter-Terrorism: Comparing Derogation from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights." Essex Human Rights Review, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 103-123.
• University of Leiden (2007). Counter-terrorism strategies, human rights and international law: meeting the challenges. Final Report.

 

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