AFRICA

EAST ASIA

EAST EUROPE

EURASIA 

MIDDLE EAST

SOUTH ASIA

SOUTHEAST
ASIA

LATIN
AMERICA

WEST EUROPE

Public laws from Hammurabi’s Code to the United Nations’ General Agreements have mapped the governing of nations and guided peaceful international encounters. But legal history can also reveal social failures, tyranny, the gulf between secular and religious traditions and the difficulty of meshing local and international customs. In an age of globalization, the international community struggles to find common legal ground on issues such as trade, technology and the environment. But perhaps the oldest and still most challenging legal stories revolve around defining basic human rights. The 2004 ORIAS summer institute for teachers will look at turning points in comparative law and human rights in world history.

Topics for the 5-day institute include teachable moments from::

The study of comparative law
Ancient roots in the Near East
Negotiating family law and women’s rights
Literary responses to the legal suppression of human rights
Religious law in a secular world
Transitional Justice
International law

Contact: Michele Delattre 
University of California Berkeley 
Office of Resources for International and Area Studies 
2223 Fulton Street Room 338 #2324 
Berkeley CA 94720-2324

510.643.0868 | orias@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS), Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of European Studies. 

Funding is provided by Title VI grants from the United States Department of Education.