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We would like to solicit your help to promote the CEU Summer University courses on Human Rights (see details below) among your colleagues, your graduate students, or any interested researchers and practitioners. The application deadline is February 15, 2012. Financial aid is available. Please feel free to forward the announcement and/or post it on any relevant web sites, listserv, etc.
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Course details
1. Mental Disability Law in Practice (16-27 July, 2012)
Course director: Oliver Lewis, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest, Hungary
This two-week applied legal practice course aims to strengthen the professional development of students, who are lawyers and other legal advocates in the field of in mental health and disability rights law from Central and Eastern Europe and further afield. While being an applied course exploring rights in real life, the course will introduce interdisciplinary perspectives from social sciences, politics, social work and clinical sciences.
Target group: This summer school encourages applications from practicing lawyers, activists and academics in the field of mental health and disability rights law from Europe and Africa.
Financial aid is available.
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/mentaldisability-2012
2. Human Rights Litigation (16-20 July, 2012)
Course directors:
Rupert Skilbeck, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York, USA
Zaza Namoradze, Open Society Justice Initiative, Budapest, Hungary
This course for human rights professionals will develop the skills and knowledge needed to successfully bring cases to the regional human rights systems and the UN Treaty bodies. Participants will be invited to provide information on concrete cases that they are involved in which will be discussed during the course.
The course includes modules that examine the steps involved in strategic litigation, such as case selection, client care, and forum choice, as well as the specific legal stages of admissibility, exhausting domestic remedies and preparing substantive arguments. Case studies will examine how to build a strong evidential record in support of the case, how to develop campaigning and advocacy to raise awareness of the issues involved, and how to implement a successful judgment.
Target group: The course invites applications from human rights activists, policy workers and litigators, with 3 years' working experience, who are seeking to enforce the rights of the individual against the state. Some participants will have a legal background, and will be involved in bringing cases before the courts. Some will have a policy background, with an interest in seeking to persuade governments to effect reforms. Some may be professionals wishing to develop their skills in these new areas, but will bring experiences of other forms of human rights work. Participants from Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia will be particularly encouraged to attend.
Financial aid is available.
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/litigation-2012
3. Human Rights and Drug Policy (16-27 July, 2012)
Course directors:
David Bewley-Taylor, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Swansea, UK
Desmond Cohen, OSI Global Drug Policy Program
The course aims to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights, and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards. Discussion will focus partly on the identification and understanding of human rights including those that have their basis in international agreements and laws, and in part on evaluation and assessment of the gap between rights and practice in the implementation of drug policies in many countries and regions. The focus of the course will be global and participants will be drawn from all regions internationally.
Target group: The applications are invited from high-achieving MA and PhD students, junior faculty, research staff in universities and other institutions and professionals. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.
Financial aid is available.
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/drugpolicy-2012
Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Hungary
http://www.sun.ceu.hu
e-mail:summeru@ceu.hu
tel: 36 1 327 3811
fax: 36 1 327 3124
