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| 授業科目名 | 年度 | 学期 | 開講曜日・時限 | 学部・研究科など | 担当教員 | 教員カナ氏名 | 配当年次 | 単位数 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 法学特講１ Human Rights in Asia | 2026 | 春学期 | 水3 | 法学部 | ヘンダーソン サイモン |
ヘンダーソン サイモン |
3･4年次配当 | 2 |
科目ナンバー
JU-LA3-006S
履修条件・関連科目等
There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course.
授業で使用する言語
英語
授業で使用する言語（その他の言語）
授業の概要
人権とは、私たちが人間として存在しているという理由だけで持つ権利であり、国家によって付与されるものではありません。これらの普遍的な権利は、国籍、性別、国籍や民族的出身、肌の色、宗教、言語、その他のいかなる地位に関わらず、私たちすべてに固有のものです。
しかしながら、第二次世界大戦終結以降、アジアでは大きな政治的変化があったにもかかわらず、多くの国で人権侵害が依然として蔓延しています。人権条約は広く批准されているにもかかわらず、その違反は依然として続いています。拷問からの自由、恣意的な拘禁、結社の自由や信教の自由の制限などは、常に侵害されている多くの権利の一部です。
本コースでは、アジアの文脈における人権を考察し、人権とは何か、そしてどのように実現されるのかという基本的事項を概観します。本コースの特徴は、アドボカシー、連携構築、そして市民社会が実際に人権問題に取り組む方法に焦点を当てることです。人権侵害をいかに阻止し、加害者を責任追及できるかを考察します。
科目目的
This course aims to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively engage with and understand human rights issues in Asia.
The course will include a focus on understanding the institutions of influence across the human rights field in Asia, whether that is individual states, multilateral bodies (including ASEAN), the United Nations Human Rights Council and special mandate holders, non-government organisations, business and other stakeholders. It will also provide background on the underpinning and understanding of human rights in Asia, factoring in the impacts of past and current conflicts, democracy, development, and local contextualised values.
Additionally, using real life case studies across Asia in every class, as well as extended case studies towards the end of the semester. Students will be introduced to; 1) Advocacy tools, processes, and models which enable students to understand advocacy formulation, implementation and evaluation; 2) Community engagement and empowerment, in which the emphasis is put on social policies and how to engage vulnerable populations to build advocacy practices in a systematic and purposeful way to influence government, international organisations, and business; and 3) Media, including social and traditional, which evaluates the media’s role in driving human rights changes in Asia.
到達目標
Ultimately, the aim is to train students to be creative and logical thinkers in understanding the most pressing human rights issues across Asia, while becoming competent communicators in writing and speaking. This includes a wide variety of writing materials, whether it is a submission, op-ed, research proposal, or a case summary.
The course is designed to set students up to cover a wide breadth of human rights issues in Asia, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Students will emerge from the course being confident to explain about how human rights issues interact with historical and current affairs in Asia. They will be able to understand how to apply a set of actions to respond to human rights challenges as if they were working in civil society, government, or business, and consider an advocacy focused response.
授業計画と内容
1. Overview of the course and introduction to key concepts, including human rights, advocacy, campaigning, coalition building, stakeholder engagement, and theory of change
2. The evolution of human rights and foundation of today’s modern human rights
3. Institutional structures of human rights at a national, regional, and international level, and their role in Asia
4. Human rights accountability mechanisms and how to use them
5. Establishing coalitions to build influence on human rights issues in Asia
6. Culture and rule shifting in human rights – creating social change and how change has occurred across Asia
7. Strategic litigation and cause lawyering on human rights causes across Asia
8. Commissions of inquiry, policy and law reform bodies on human rights, their role in democracies and autocracies in Asia
9. Government engagement, achieving human rights changes through lobbying with parliaments and government officials in Asia
10. The use of media, including social media, to influence change on human rights in Asia
11. Case study: Youth justice and the age of criminal responsibility across Asia
12. Case study: Human rights, memorialisation, and transitional justice in Asia
13. Case study: The Hong Kong protest movement, human rights, and legal responses
14. Group presentations
授業時間外の学修の内容
指定したテキストやレジュメを事前に読み込むこと／その他
授業時間外の学修の内容（その他の内容等）
Students will be required to read specified texts in advance of the class. Students will also be expected to keep track of current news events to be able to provide commentary and reflections during class on relevant topics.
授業時間外の学修に必要な時間数／週
・毎週１回の授業が半期（前期または後期）または通年で完結するもの。１週間あたり４時間の学修を基本とします。
・毎週２回の授業が半期（前期または後期）で完結するもの。１週間あたり８時間の学修を基本とします。
成績評価の方法・基準
| 種別 | 割合（％） | 評価基準 |
|---|---|---|
| レポート | 40 | A personal reflection on how you have been exposed to advocacy and human rights issues, and the influence it has had on you. Each paper will be no more than 2,500 words, exclusive of references. Papers will be by the end of Lesson 7. |
| 平常点 | 20 | Class participation to be assessed on the basis of: - Evidence of readings considered before the class - Contribution to class discussions - Engagement in group activities Assessment will be conducted in an ongoing basis throughout the semester. |
| その他 | 40 | Group size will be determined by the class size. Anywhere from 2 to 4 people. It will be an in-depth examination to ascertain a civil society organisation’s engagement and advocacy strategies. You need to analyse the strategic engagement strategies of the organisation. You also need to assess the outcomes by identified appropriate methods, metrics of assessment and mapping these with key organisational objectives in terms of advocacy outcomes and determine their effectiveness. Group presentations will be delivered in front of the class in week 14. |
成績評価の方法・基準（備考）
課題や試験のフィードバック方法
授業時間内で講評・解説の時間を設ける／授業時間に限らず、manabaでフィードバックを行う
課題や試験のフィードバック方法（その他の内容等）
アクティブ・ラーニングの実施内容
PBL（課題解決型学習）／反転授業（教室の中で行う授業学習と課題などの授業外学習を入れ替えた学習形式）／ディスカッション、ディベート／グループワーク／プレゼンテーション
アクティブ・ラーニングの実施内容（その他の内容等）
授業におけるICTの活用方法
クリッカー／タブレット端末
授業におけるICTの活用方法（その他の内容等）
実務経験のある教員による授業
はい
【実務経験有の場合】実務経験の内容
Previous teaching experience includes:
- 2023 - The University of Tokyo
- 2022 to 2023 - The Education University of Hong Kong
Relevant work experience includes:
- Aug 2024 to Jun 2025 - Asia Deputy Director (East Asia), Human Rights Watch
- Sep 2019 to Feb 2024 - Head of Policy, Save the Children Australia
- Jul 2017 to May 2019 - Senior Policy Advisor, Justice Centre Hong Kong
- Feb 2015 to Jun 2017 - Senior Policy Lawyer, Human Rights, Law Council of Australia
- Feb 2013 to Feb 2015 - Policy Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government
- Jan 2009 to Dec 2012 - Policy Lawyer, Law Council of Australia
- Jan 2008 to May 2008 - Intern, Human Rights in China
Professional voluntary experience:
- Jan 2025 to date - Member, Law Council of Australia, International Law Section Executive
- Jan 2022 to date - Member, Law Society of New South Wales Human Rights Committee
- Jul 2021 to date - Member, LAWASIA Human Rights Committee
Admitted as a lawyer of the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
【実務経験有の場合】実務経験に関連する授業内容
The instructor is an international human rights lawyer, foreign policy analyst and academic, with over 15 years of practical work experience in human rights advocacy across Asia. He has been based in Tokyo since July 2022. He has previously lived, studied and worked in Australia, Hong Kong, China, United States of America, as well as Japan. He has been a regular media commentator on a wide variety of human rights topics, ranging from how to strengthen the rule of law in Hong Kong to the establishment of targeted human rights sanctions laws in Australia.
The course will draw upon the instructor’s practical human rights expertise in civil society organisations, government and industry. Various practical examples will be drawn from the instructors professional experience, such as what it is like to work in civil society organisations in Japan, how to lobby representatives of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, how to engage with China at United Nations human rights forums and hold them accountable, ways in which to present your arguments before committee hearings in the Australian parliament, among other examples.
テキスト・参考文献等
There will not be an assigned textbook. Readings will be provided in advance. However, recommended reading and reference materials to inform the course as a whole include:
Alexander, M., (2010) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
Clapham, A. (2016) Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). Oxford University Press.
Higurashi, Y. (2022) The Tokyo Trial: War Criminals and Japan's Postwar International Relations, Japan Publishing Industry.
Pils, E., (2018) Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism. Polity.
Kim, M. (edit) (2018) Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia. Routledge.
Kendi, I.X., (2019) How to Be an Antiracist. One World.
Takahashi, S.J., (2020) Civil and Political Rights in Japan: A Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law). Routledge.
Tarrow, S., (2011) Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge University Press (revised and updated 3rd edition)
Tsutsui, K. (2018) Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan, Oxford University Press.
Wong, J., with Ng, J. (2020) Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now. Penguin Books.