CEU Summer University 2014 - Legal studies

Course details:
1. Mediation Theory and Skills ( 23 June - 27 June, 2014)

Course director:
Lela P. Love, Kukin Program of Conflict Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, New York, USA

This intensive one-week course facilitates the exchange of ideas and
cooperative projects among mediation scholars, practitioners, trainers,
and students in the East and West. In addition to offering an introduction to mediation, the program provides a teaching and training template for mediation training for scholars and practitioners from around the world to adapt for use in their home countries. http://www.summer.ceu.hu/mediation-2014

2. Drug Policy and Human Rights ( 14 July - 23 July, 2014)Course directors:
David Bewley-Taylor, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Swansea, UK;
Julia Buxton, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

This course aims to explore the often tense intersection between drug
policy and human rights. Taking place within the broader context of the
UN drug control system, discussion will focus on the identification and understanding of relevant international human rights agreements and on
the evaluation and assessment of the gap between rights and practice in the implementation of drug policies in many countries and regions.
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/drugpolicy-2014
Financial aid is available.


3. Constitution-building in Africa ( 30 June - 11 July, 2014)Course directors:
Markus Böckenförde, Centre for Global Cooperation Research,
Duisburg/University of Giessen, Germany;
Renata Uitz, Comparative Constitutional Law Program, Department of
Legal Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
The two-week research course intends to tackle complex societal, political and legal problems in constitution-building from an interdisciplinary perspective, informed by field experience. We seek to combine different disciplines (mostly comparative law and political science) and perspectives (comparative governmental systems; electoral systems; decentralization; human rights; comparative constitutional law; good governance; etc) to offer new insights on a classic subject of the highest academic and practical relevance.
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/constitution-2014 Financial aid is available.

4. Strategic Human Rights Litigation ( 21 July - 25 July, 2014)Course director:
Steve Kostas, Open Society Justice Initiative, London, UK
Human rights litigation is one of the methods by which civil society organizations can bring about social change. 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, and to use those cases to achieve practical change.
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/litigation-2014
Financial aid is available.