| Modulname |
Rights of Minorities in Europe (UNIC) |
| Gebiet |
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| Profil |
Profil Liberal Arts Education
Profil International
Profil Freie Studien
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| CPs |
5 CP |
| Campus |
Hier geht
es zum Vorlesungsverzeichnis |
| Voraussetzungen |
Students enrolling the course should be enrolled in the final years of the legal studies and preferably who have passed exam in the International Public Law. Students from other disciplines (e.g. social work, political science, sociology, etc.) are also invited to take a course.
The module is held in English, so sufficient language skills are required. |
| Besonderheiten |
TN-Plätze: 10/20 Participant places
Termin der ersten Sitzung: 01.03.2022, online, from 1PM to 3.30PM
Anmeldung:
You need to register your attendance by sending an email to imo@pravo.hr
After successful registration, please send an email with registration confirmation to ecampus-optionalbereich@rub.de. This is necessary so that registration in Campus can take place after successful completion of the module.
Zusammensetzung der Endnote:
In this course you will earn a grade by completing the following assignments: presentation of the case study - 30% of the final grade; PowerPoint presentation- 20% of the final grade; class participation - 30% of the final grade; and attendance - 20% of the final grade.
Prüfungstermin: The services are provided during the module, so that one examination date is omitted.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact instructor Antonija Petričušić ( antonija.petricusic@pravo.hr ) |
| Blockseminar |
Ja |
| Vorkenntnisse |
Students enrolling the course should be enrolled in the final years of the legal studies and preferably who have passed exam in the International Public Law. Students from other disciplines (e.g. social work, political science, sociology, etc.) are also invited to take a course.
The module is held in English, so sufficient language skills are required. |
| Veranstaltungszeit |
siehe Campus. |
| Dozenten |
Antonija Petričušić, University of Zagreb, antonija.petricusic@pravo.hr |
| Arbeitsaufwand |
Students are expected to attend online lectures and to actively participate in class discussions.
Each student enrolled in the course Rights of Minorities in Europe is required to prepare a presentation on the realization of minority rights in one of the European states and to hand in a PowerPoint presentation that assesses the efficacy of minority rights protection in the state s/he has chosen to present to a course leader Assoc. Prof. Antonija Petričušić
at apetricusic@pravo.hr at least one day before the date of presentation in the virtual classroom.
A template for the PowerPoint presentation will be provided in order to simplify completion of your assignment.
Sources to be consulted in preparation of the powerpoint presentation:
1. Country-specific monitoring of the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, at https://www.coe.int/en/web/minorities/country-specific- monitoring
2. Country-specific monitoring of the implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, at https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-charter-regional-or- minority-languages/reports-and-recommendations
3. European Commission against Racism and Intolerance’s (ECRI) assesment of the State, at https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-commission-against-racism-and- intolerance/country-monitoring |
| Literatur |
Pentassuglia, Gaetano. Minority Groups and Judicial Discourse in International Law: A Comparative Perspective. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 2009.
Patrick Thornberry, María Amor Martín Estébanez (eds.), Minority rights in Europe: a review of the work and standards of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2004.
Jackson Preece, Jennifer, National minorities and the European nation-states system, Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
| Modulteil |
siehe Campus |
| Modultyp |
siehe Campus |
| Modulanbieter |
UNIC University of Zagreb |
| Inhalt |
Teil 1 und 2: Rights of Minorities in Europe (block seminar), WS 2021/22-SoSe 2022, online, Tuesday 1 March 2022 - Tuesday 31 May 2022, Tuesdays, from 1PM to 3.30PM
The course will introduce to law students an up-to-date account of the relevant international legal standards for protection of the rights of national minorities and the developments in supervisory practice of monitoring bodies. The course will therefore analyse the measures envisaged to protect national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in European countries, particularly those developed under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe and the European Union, international organizations that have been continuously committed to a peaceful European order. Their efforts have resulted in developing numerous instruments that prescribe rights of national minorities. Apart from the Council of Europe's legally binding instruments developed to protect and promote rights of national minorities and to protect and preserve regional and minority languages in Europe, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities thematic Recommendations and Guidelines developed to address ethnic tensions and to prevent hostilities over national minority issues will be thoroughly examined.
Inhaltliche Beschreibung Teil 1 und 2:
In order to shed a light on variety of constitutional solutions for management of ethnic,
cultural and religious diversity in Europe, the course will consist of the following lecture elements:
Sociological debates concerning minorities: race, ethnicity and inequality
Minority rights in political theory and philosophy
National minorities and the European nation-states system
Instruments of minority protection developed by the Council of Europe - The
European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages
5. Instruments of minority protection developed by the Council of Europe - The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
6. Instruments of minority protection eveloped by the Council of Europe - The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
7. OSCE contribution to the protection of national minorities
8. Integration of iverse societies in Europe
9. Foundamental Rights Agency and racial and ethnic equality and non-discrimination in European Union
10. Assesment of the national minority rights enforcement mechanisms |
| Lernziele |
The aim of this course is to transfer to law students sociological, politological and legal concepts related to ethnicity and ethnic diversity. |
