Course details
1. Mental Disability Law in Practice (4-15 July, 2011)
Course director: Oliver Lewis, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest,
Hungary
www.summer.ceu.hu/mentaldisability
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.
2. Human Rights Litigation (11-15 July, 2011)
Course directors: Rupert Skilbeck, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York,
USA and Zaza Namoradze, Open Society Justice Initiative, Budapest, Hungary
www.summer.ceu.hu/hr-litigation
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.
3. Human Rights and Drug Policy (11-22 July, 2011)
Course director: Desmond Cohen, OSI Global Drug Policy Program
www.summer.ceu.hu/drugpolicy
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.
Please visit the individual course web sites for more detailed information.
Sarolta Szabo (Ms)
Program Co-ordinator
CEU Summer University ,1051 Budapest, Nador utca 9.
E-mail: szabos@ceu.hu, Phone: (36-1)327-3811,Fax: (36-1)327-3124
Web: www.sun.ceu.hu
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