PhD studies

 

 

 
 
 

 

Vocational seminars of PhD-education:

 

I.                    International Law I.

II.                 International Law II.

III.               International institutions of Human Rights Protection

IV.              International institutions of Minority Protection

 

Vocational seminar of PhD-education in the sub-program of “Theory and practice of Human Rights”

 

I.                    Title of the vocational seminar: international institutions of Human Rights Protection (III. semester)

 

II.                 Aim of the vocational seminar: Introducing the main Hungarian and international schools, historical periods with special institutions, scientific groups and main directions related to the Human Rights Protection to the PhD-students. Jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights and its analysis play a dominant role.

 

III.               System of work:

1.      The main historical events of development of the international Human Rights Protection

2.      The doctrine before change of regime in Middle and Eastern Europe

3.      Scientific groups and journals dealing with Human Rights Protection in Hungary and abroad

4.      Human Rights Protection and its documentation in the United Nations (I): mechanisms of Human Rights Protection

5.      Human Rights Protection and its documentation in the United Nations (II): grave breaches of human rights and the international criminal courts

6.      European Convention of Human Rights (I): structure, functions and reforms

7.      European Convention of Human Rights (II): jurisdiction

8.      European Convention of Human Rights (III): jurisdiction

9.      Other mechanisms of Human Rights Protection in the Council of Europe

 

IV.              Requirements for the exam:

The PhD-students can chose between two way of giving account.

a)      writing a study in a subject connected to the subject of the seminar (40000 characters) and “protecting” of that study. The study can be written also about the summarising and critical introduction of the main productions of the vocational literature in the field of Human Rights.

b)      oral exam about the compulsory materials

 

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