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Leyden-Amsterdam-Columbia Summer Program in American Law

30 June-26 July 2002

The Columbia Summer Program is designed to introduce non-American law graduates and students to the methodology and content of American Law. The elective course "Human Rights in International Constitutional Perspective" (Professor Jack Greenberg, Columbia University, New York) will compare, and build bridges between, the law of International Human Rights and the Constitutional law of rights in the United States. We will examine the history, theory, and sources of rights in the two systems, the institutions for implementing them, and the remedies for violations. We will also compare the treatment of particular rights in the two systems: for example, the right to life (capital punishment?); freedom of expression (including hate speech); freedom of religion; equality and the equal protection of the laws (including affirmative action); and economic and social rights. Topics will be considered in comparison to laws of other countries.

Level: (under)graduate, professional

Location: Leiden, The Netherlands

Participants: 35 law graduates and advanced law students/p>

Tuition, fee, lodging: 1925 euro (tuition: 1500 euro, lodging: 200, meals: 225 euro), students pay a reduced fee and scholarships are available.

Contact Information:
Sanne Bruinstroop
Columbia Summer Program
Faculty of Law
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9500
2300 RA Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Fax: +31 71 5277298
E-mail: columbiasc@law.leidenuniv.nl
Web: http://old.law.columbia.edu/clasp