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Christina M. Cerna, Dinah Shelton, Advanced Introduction to International Human Rights Law, Human Rights Law Review, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 395–400, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngv010
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Professor Dinah Shelton is one of our most knowledgeable academics in the field of international human rights law. She has traveled and written extensively about human rights and human rights institutions for many years and, among other publications, has co-authored an updated version of Richard Lillich’s classic international human rights law textbook with Hurst Hannum and James Anaya.1 Most international human rights textbooks in the United States are case based hence I was curious to see what an ‘advanced introduction’ to international human rights law would look like and for whom it was intended.
I have been teaching an ‘Advanced Seminar in International Human Rights Law’ for several years at Georgetown University Law Center. An advanced course presumes that students have some knowledge of the material (for example, a course in public international law and an introductory course in international human rights law) and are interested and capable of a deeper assessment of the subject matter.