International Protection of Human Rights

Major: Law
Code of subject: 6.081.01.E.091
Credits: 5.00
Department: Department of Theory of Law and Constitutionalism
Lecturer: Tsebenko Solomiia
Semester: 7 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: Integral competence (INT): the ability to solve complex specialized problems and practical problems in the field of professional legal activity or in the learning process, which involves the application of legal doctrines, principles and legal institutions and is characterized by complexity and uncertainty of conditions. General competencies (GC): GC2. The ability to apply knowledge in practical situations. GC11. The ability to exercise their rights and responsibilities as a member of society, to realize the values of civil (free democratic) society and the need for its sustainable development, the rule of law, human and civil rights and freedoms in Ukraine. Special competencies (SC): SC4. Knowledge and understanding of international human rights standards, provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. SC12. The ability to analyze legal issues, form and justify legal positions. SC16. The ability to logical, critical and systematic analysis of documents, understanding their legal nature and meaning. Professional competencies (PC) PC1.11. Knowledge of international human rights mechanisms of United Nations institutions, as well as regional mechanisms of human rights protection. Program learning outcomes (PR): PR1 Determine the persuasiveness of arguments in the process of assessing previously unknown conditions and circumstances. PR2. Analyze social processes in the context of the analyzed problem and demonstrate your own vision of ways to solve it. PR3. Carry out collection and integrated analysis of materials from various sources. PR4. Formulate your own sound judgments based on an analysis of a known problem. PR5. Give a brief conclusion on certain factual circumstances (data) with sufficient justification. PR6. Evaluate the disadvantages and advantages of arguments by analyzing a known problem. PR29. Analyze situational plots and solve legal problems. Communication (COM) COM3. It is accessible and clear to inform the respondent about certain issues. Autonomy and responsibility (AiR) AiR1. Ability to adapt to new situations and make appropriate decisions. AiR2. Ability to realize the need for lifelong learning in order to deepen the acquired and acquire new professional knowledge.
Required prior and related subjects: The previous subjects: Theory of State and Law, Constitutional Law; International law. Related and following disciplines: Fundamentals of European Union law; European Court of Human Rights: case law.
Summary of the subject: «International Protection of Human Rights» is an integral course, the successful study of which involves students mastering lecture material, its consolidation and deepening in practical (seminar) classes, an independent study of normative, educational and scientific literature. The most important issues to be mastered during the study of this discipline are the concepts, features and classification of human rights; Ensuring, protection and defense of human rights; concept and classification of international human rights standards; universal and regional systems of human rights protection; basic forms and means of international human rights protection by UN and Council of Europe institutions; the procedure for applying to the European Court of Human Rights and the conditions for the admissibility of applications to that Court; procedure for consideration of cases in the European Court of Human Rights, features of protection of certain human rights by the European Court of Human Rights. During the course we will work with national legislation and international acts on the protection of human rights, as well as interpret them according to specific life situations; we will learn to protect human rights and freedoms at the international level; to analyze specific life situations through the prism of the provisions of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights, to make applications to the European Court of Human Rights.
Assessment methods and criteria: Evaluation of student learning results is carried out in accordance with a 100-point score of assessment established at the university. The final assessment of the discipline consists of an assessment of the current control of learning outcomes during the semester. The number of points allocated to the current control in practical (seminar) classes is 40 points, implementation of individual work – 20, test - 40. Maximum score in scores together for discipline – 100 points.
Recommended books: 1. Antonovich M.M. Ukraine in the international system of human rights protection: Theory and practice. K., 2007. 384 p. 2. From the theory of international law to the practice of human rights protection. LiberAmicorum to the 60th anniversary of prof. V.V. Mytsyk: monograph. / author count ; for order. О.В. Zadorozhny and O.R. Poyedynok. Kiev; Odessa: Phoenix, 2016. 718 p. 3. Dudash T.Practice of European Court of Human Rights: Teach and practical handbook. K .: Alerta, 2016. 488 p. 4. Karaman I.V., Kozina V.V. The European Court of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and individual statements: a first acquaintance. К .: VAITE, 2015. 136 p. 5. Mytsyk V. Human rights in international law, international legal mechanisms of protection: a textbook for high schools. K., 2010. 722 p. 6. Features of the application of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in civil cases: textbook. manual / U.B. Andrusiv, O.B. Verba-Sidor, Y.V. Verkhol and others. Lviv: LvDUVS, 2019. 404 p. URL: http://dspace.lvduvs.edu.ua/handle/1234567890/2738 7. Practice of European Court of Human Rights: general theoretical research // Works of Lviv laboratory of human and civil rights Research Institute of State Building and Local Self-Government at Law Academy of Ukraine / Redkol .: Rabinovich P. and others. Series I. Studies and summeries. Issue 21. Lviv: Krai, 2009. 152 pages. 8. On the enforcement and implementation of practice of the European Court of Human Rights: Law of Ukraine on February 23, 2006. 9. Razmetaeva Y.S. Doctrine and practice of human rights protection: textbook. way. Kharkiv, 2018. 362 p. 10. Syroid T.L. International protection of human rights: textbook. manual / T.L.Syroyid, L.O.Fomina. Kharkiv: Pravo, 2019. 310 p. 11. Modern mechanisms of human rights protection: collective monograph / MS Kelman, AS Tokarska, LV Yarmol, SB Tsebenko, AODutko. Lviv: Galician Publishing Union, 2020. 220 p. 12. Fule T. The use of the European Court of Human rights practice in the administration of justice: Scientific manual for judges. - 2nd ed. corrected, supplemented. K., 2015. 208 p. 13. Shumilo I.A. International system of human rights protection: textbook. way. Kharkiv: I.B. Lysenko, 2019. 168 p.