This short certificate course introduces participants to the major themes and debates concerning the relationship between human rights, development and the international legal regulation of the two. The course examines the historical evolution of the links between human rights and development, the contested nature of their meanings, the classical doctrinal debates about the right to development and the consequences of such conceptions for international human rights law and policy debates. Participants will explore the new streams of critique that have enabled a confluence as well as a questioning of the human rights-development nexus. The course also examines selected current issues in the human rights-development interface that are salient from a policy perspective, including the Millennium Development Goals, intellectual property rights, development aid and cooperation as well as the political economy of conflicts and its relation with the development-human rights paradigm.
- Professor: Mihir Kanade