[Hamp-law] May Human Rights Course at The Hague and Strasbourg!

[Flavio Risech]

Application deadline is March 6 for CSI 182 International Human Rights 
Tribunals!

Visit http://www.hampshire.edu/geo/14684.htm for full info and to 
download the application materials.

Course begins May 22 in Amsterdam and ends June 6 in Strasbourg, France.

CSI-182 International Human Rights Tribunals introduces students to the 
various juridical institutions located in The Hague and Strasbourg, and 
engages them in research and actual observations of the ongoing trials 
at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal 
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the European Court of 
Human Rights (ECHR).

Past courses have involved sitting in on the genocide and war crimes 
trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and the sentencing hearing 
for Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor for his role in the bloody 
Sierra Leone civil war. This year we should be able to observe portions 
of the trials of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic at the ICTY. We will 
also attend a full court hearing at the ECHR in Strasbourg. The course 
includes a historical component, visiting the Anne Frank House, the 
Netherlands Resistance Museum, the Jewish History Museum of Amsterdam, 
and a look at racism and xenophobia in current Dutch politics and 
society. There are no prerequisites though priority will be given to 
students whose academic work includes  human rights, international 
relations, and criminal justice.

The course is open to all five college students.

More information: contact Heather St.Germaine at Hampshire's Global 
Education Office at hstgermaine at hampshire.edu; 413-559-5542.

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Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law
School of Critical Social Inquiry
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
413.559.5504 voice
413.559.5620 fax
frisech at hampshire.edu