Professor Dr María José Añón Roig

Topic 1: Social rights: Concept, foundation, relationship with  the socio-economic system, regulatory developments –local, state, international, universal levels- guarantees and protection.

Topic 2: Indivisibility, interaction and relation to human rights: Conceptual issues, legitimacy in court proceedings and responsible organisations, procedural aspects of implementation, interpretative issues.

Topic 3: Legal arguments and human rights.

Topic 5: Equality and anti-discrimination law: additional arguments (systemic discrimination and intersectionality).

Topic 6: Human mobility from the human rights standard.

Topic 7: Access to justice and fairness of the legal process. Philosophical and legal foundations of the right to be heard. Philosophical, sociological and legal analysis of access. Theories of justice and fairness of the legal process.

Professor Dr Cristina García Pascual

Topic 1. Legal theories and philosophies and international relations (H. Kelsen, J. Habermas, J. Rawls, C. Nino, I. Kant, F. De Vitoria, O. Höffe, H. J. Morgenthau...)

Objectives:
- To explain, analyse and criticise the theory
- Showing its topicality and practical consequences
- Relating theory with the current discussion in Legal Philosophy

Topic 2: Transitional justice and legal globalisation (principle of universal jurisdiction, international proceedings and principle of non-retroactivity, collective responsibility and individual guilt, historical memory, the right to be forgotten...)

Objectives:
- To explain and analyse the topic
- Analysis of the cases and existing case-law
- Relating the topic with the current discussion in Legal Philosophy

Topic 3: Citizenship and cosmopolitanism (rights and cosmopolitan citizenship, global state, global constitutionalism...)

Objectives:
- To explain and analyse the topic
- Showing its topicailty and legal relevance
- Relating the topic with the current discussion in Legal Philosophy

Topic 4: Feminist Theory of Law (discrimination, autonomy and equality, bio-politics and bio-law, multiculturalism and women’s rights)

Objectives:
- To explain and analyse the topic
- Reflecting on the existing good practices
- Relating the topic with the current discussion in Legal Philosophy

Professor Dr José García Añón

Topic 1. Female genital mutilation

Objectives:
- Knowing guarantee and prevention mechanisms

- Analysis of the cases and existing case-law
- Comparing the existing legal guarantees in other States
- Reflecting on the existing good practises

Topic 2. Racial and ethnic discrimination

Objectives:
- Knowing guarantee and prevention mechanisms
- Comparing the existing legal guarantees in other States
- Reflecting on the existing good practises
- Analysis of the cases and existing case-law

Topic 3. Teaching of human rights

Objectives:
- Knowing the methodologies for human rights teaching
- Analysing experiences and good practises in human rights teaching
- Exploring the use of ICTs for human rights teaching

Professor Dr Javier de Lucas

Topic 1. Migratory and asylum policies.
Topic 2. Migration and human rights.
Topic 3. Disobedience and right of resistance.
Topic 4. Democracy and citizenship.
Topic 5. Human rights education.
Topic 6. Cinema and law.

Professor Dr Ruth Mestre i Mestre

Topic 1. Sexual and reproductive rights

Objectives:
- Knowing the concept and justification of the sexual and reproductive rights
- Jurisprudential analysis of sexual and reproductive rights in the Spanish and European case-law
- Sexual and reproductive rights in intercultural and international perspective
- Current/recent violations of sexual and reproductive rights in the European context and the responsibility of states
- Analysis of the latest standards and legislative changes relating to sex/gender system and the sexual and reproductive rights/
gender and to sexual and reproductive rights

Topic 2. Feminism and interculturality

Objectives:
Identification of the different theories and feminist epistemologies
- Double discrimination vs Intersectionality: crossing of oppressive systems and women’s rights
- Identities
- Hegemonic feminism vs postcolonial feminism and feminism from the social margins
- Study of specific proposals: Martha Nussbaum, Ch. T. Mohanty, A. Sachar…

Topic 3. Feminist theory and theory of Law

Objectives:
- Feminist epistemologies and Law
- History of women’s rights
- History of feminist theory of Law

Topic 4. Theories of Democracy

Objectives:
- Models of Democracy
- Political participation
- Legitimation of constitutional democracies
- Democracy and Justice

Professor Dr Ángeles Solanes Corella

Topic 1. Human rights and migratory flows

Objectives:
- Knowing the standard on the rights and freedoms of foreign nationals in Spain:
issues related to its practical application
- Studying comparative Law in the field of immigration
- Reflect on citizenship and nationality
- Analysing the processes of integration, exclusion and normalisation
- Taking into account the treatment of immigration in the media

Topic 2. Human rights and poverty

Objectives:
- Thinking on the subject of poverty and social justice
- Analysing specific cases of inequality, poverty and deprivation
- Reflect on exclusion and social development in Spain

Topic 3. Cultural pluralism and contemporary debates

Objectives:
- Research on cultures and pluralism: cultural and religious pluralism
- Reflect on universalism and cultural relativism
- To identify conceptual and regulatory issues of multiculturalism and human rights
- Analysing public policies promoting pluralism

Topic 4. Argumentation and constitutional conflicts

Objectives:
- To identify some conflicts of fundamental rights and weighting
- Driving theory of argumentation
- To research evaluation and argumentative contexts
- To study judicial reasoning

Topic 5. Ethics of legal professions

Objectives:
- Knowing the relations between human rights and ethics of legal professions
- Reflect on the ethics of lawyers in the rule of law
- Reflect on the ethics of judges in the rule of law

Topic 6. Human rights education

Objectives:
- Studying the links between human rights, civil society and education for citizenship
- Understand the right to training as a defense of equal opportunities
- Understanding Human Rights as culture of peace
- Reflect on the formal and informal education on human rights
- Analysing the importance of Human Rights education in social discrimination
- Analysing the role of Human Rights education at various educational levels