Human Rights Protection WP-PRZ-OPC
The aims and objectives (specific):
Presentation of the specific topics listed below:
- The concept of human rights and their protection system
- General principles of human rights
- Normative construction of internationally protected human rights
- Personal scope and objective of human rights
- Limits the use of human rights
- Presentation of particular human rights:
- Right to life
- Freedom from torture
- Freedom from slavery
- right to personal security
- right to a fair trial
- right to privacy
- short decription o other internationally proceted human rights
- Human rights in the legal order of Poland. Poland's international obligations on human rights and national law
- Human rights in the legal system of the Council of Europe. Scope of international obligations of Poland in the system of the Council of Europe
- ECHR
- Applicationa mechanism before the ECHR
- Human rights in the system of the European Union
- Human rights in the legal system of the United Nations. Scope of international obligations of Poland in the UN system
- The institutional and procedural guarantees of protection of human rights. Internal system
- The institutional and procedural safeguards human rights. System of the Council of Europe
- The institutional and procedural safeguards to protect fundamental rights in the scheme of the European Union
- The institutional and procedural safeguards for the protection of human rights in the UN system
Detailed curriculum
Subject No. of classes: total hours: 24
1. The evolution of the concept of human rights and their protection systems
2. Construction of general normative principles of human rights law
3. Sources of axiological and normative human rights
4. Constitutionalisation human rights in the legal order of Poland
5. Systemic protection and guarantees respect for human rights in Poland
6. Human rights before the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland.
7. Pillars of the normative human rights protection system, the Council of Europe.
8. Treaty fixing the fundamental rights of EU
9. Fundamental rights in the Charter of Fundamental Rights
10. The International Bill of Human Rights, UN
The expected student competencies:
- The ability to separate (indicated angle of subjects) analysis of normative texts in force in the internal system and the international system, and judgments (TK; ECHR, ECJ)
- The ability to present synthetic judgments (TK; ECHR, ECJ)
- The ability to carry out interdisciplinary analysis of issues related to the protection of human rights
The list of conditions necessary for the implementation of education (technical, organizational, formal):
Access of students in the Library Faculty Handbook UKSW for guiding and / in the supplementary literature
students access to online databases, in particular the Human Rights Documentation of the Council of Europe (HUDOC)
student access to published collections of rulings TK; ECHR, the ECJ able to use during lectures with multimedia projector
The form and terms of evaluation of the course:
Provided the exam is a credit classes.
The examination shall be in writing. It is possible to join the so-called egymian yerowz. Takes the form of an written exam.
(in Polish) Dyscyplina naukowa, do której odnoszą się efekty uczenia się
(in Polish) E-Learning
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
Subject level
Learning outcome code/codes
Type of subject
Preliminary Requirements
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
After completing the course and confirmation the achievement of learning outcomes the student is able to:
- present human rights protection systems and the processes of their creation
- characterize the various human rights guaranteed by the protection systems operating at international and internal levels
- present human rights bodies and their legal basis of their functioning
- characterize and apply procedures for the protection of human rights in force in Polish legal system
- characterize and apply procedures for the protection of human rights in force in the European Union, the Council of Europe and the UN.
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Hours of classes (according to the plan of study) with a teacher 16+16
Student's individual work
TOTAL HOURS
The total number of ECTS POINTS FOR ITEM 6
Assessment criteria
for a grade 2,0
student is unable to define and describe basic human rights;doesn't have the knowledge about system of institutional guarantees of human rights
for a grade 3,0
student is able to define and describe basic human rights; has the knowledge about system of institutional guarantees of human rights
for a grade 4,0
student describes the basic rights of and individual ; is oriented in basic ECHR case-law; has the knowledge about system of institutional guarantees of human rights; can describe the application mechanisms to the organs of international human rights protection
for a grade 5,0
student is very well oriented in guarantees of human rights protection in the case-law of ECHR; as the knowledge about system of institutional guarantees of human rights; can describe the application mechanisms to the organs of international human rights protection and their consequences;
Bibliography
Basic Manual:
M. Wiącek, W. Brzozowski, A. Krzywoń, Ochrona Praw Człowieka, Warszawa 2023
Additional literature:
L. Garlicki, Polskie prawo konstytucyjne. Wyd. Liber, Wydanie X, Warszawa 2006, s.83-117 .
G. Michałowska, Ochrona praw człowieka w Radzie Europy i w Unii Europejskiej. Wydawnictwa Akademickie i profesjonalne Warszawa 2007, s. 82-90 (ONZ), s. 91-175 (Rada Europy), 177-268 (UE).
B. Banaszak i inni, Systemy ochrony praw człowieka, Wyd. Zakamycze, Wydanie II, Warszawa 2005: s. 57-116 (ONZ-owski system ochrony praw człowieka), s. 117-204 (Ochrona praw człowieka w systemie Rady Europy)
J. Barcz (red.), Prawo Unii Europejskiej. Zagadnienia systemowe. Wyd. II, s. I-405-440 (A. Wyrozumska, Jednostka w UE)
M.A. Nowicki, Nowy Europejski Trybunał Praw Człowieka. Wybór orzeczeń 1999-2004. Zakamycze 2005
M. Zubik (red.), Konstytucja III RP w tezach orzeczeń Trybunału Konstytucyjnego i wybranych sądów. Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck 2007
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: