MSHR 500HumanRghts Theory & Practice I

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This course critically examines the validity and purchase of "humankind's most noble aspirations" for us today. It examines the historical and intellectual evolution of human rights, the different approaches and interpretations as well as their contemporary practice, uncovering the idea of human rights in its historical and intellectual contexts of emergence. The aim of this course is to provide a broad overview of the development of the idea of human rights before 1948, and to examine the ideas and theories contained in the Universal Declaration of 1948.