Open Society Institute

Higher Education Support Program

Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching

 

project information sheet

 

 

 

Project Title

Philosophy of Human rights

 

 

Discipline/s (subject area/s)

Philosophy, Political Science, Law

Target Region (list countries)

Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union

Working Language/s

English, Russian

Project Period

From (month/year) to (months/year) July 2010 – December 2012

 

 

Brief Project Statement

(not more than 100 words)

Please state briefly and clearly the academic goals, with explicit focus on the development of undergraduate teaching in the proposed subject area in the target region, the project sets to achieve (this may be the statement you provided in your project description).  

 

The project addresses the need to develop and reform teaching human rights courses in post-Communist countries, as well as courses in philosophy, legal and political theory, dealing with human rights issues. It will strive to develop teaching and analytical skills of those involved in teaching legal subjects in the region, to deepen and broaden their understanding of philosophical and methodological foundations of human rights theory. It will help them to master research methodology, train them in course design, interactive teaching methods and integration of research and teaching. By developing and maintaining an academic network of those involved in the project and other younger faculty teaching human rights-related courses, the project will attempt to provide joint effort and mutual support for reform-minded university teachers and positively influence the existing academic practices in the field.

 

Host University

Lviv National University, Ukraine

Institution and Department

Law Faculty

Postal address

Law Faculty

Lviv National University

Sichovykh striltsiv st., 14, Lviv, I79000, Ukraine

Telephone/fax

 +38 0322 740080, fax: +38 0322  740380;

E-mail

deklaw@law.franko.lviv.ua,

deklaw@law.lnu.edu.ua

Web site

http://law.lnu.edu.ua/en/about/history

Contact person

Dmytro Gudyma, Lecturer, Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law

E-mail

hudym@mail.ru

 

 

Project Organizers   

 

Academic Director

 

Name, title, university affiliation

Sergei Moiseev, Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Humanities and Socioeconomic Sciences, Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Arts; Lecturer in Sociology of Politics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Contact email, telephone

sergeimoiseev@gmail.com, (7-3832) 223 08 53

Other key staff

(Administrative Director, Manager)

Dmitro Kobrinski, Deputy Director, Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Law Institute, Kiev National University of Interior.

 

dukduk@rambler.ru, (+380-50)-584-89-74

Core Resource Faculty  

 

Name, title, university affiliation

 

Name, title, university affiliation

 

Name, title, university affiliation 

Petro Rabinovich, Professor, Faculty of Law, Lviv National University, Ukraine

Andreas Follesdal, Professor, Director of Research, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke University, USA

Name, title, university affiliation

Christopher Wellman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Name, title, university affiliation

Michael Moore, Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., University Chair, Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, Professor in the Center for Advanced Study, and Co-Director of the College of Law Program in Law and Philosophy, University of Illinois College of Law, USA

Name, title, university affiliation

Dr. Stephen de Wijze, Senior Lecturer in Political theory Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK

Name, title, university affiliation

Vladimir Malakhov, Head of the Political Science Program, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, Russia.

Name, title, university affiliation

Russ Shafer-Landau, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Participants Eligibility  

 

Disciplines

Philosophy, history and theory of human rights, political theory, ethics, philosophy of law

Region/countries

Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union

Academic standing/level/prerequisites

Teaching human rights-related university courses

Other criteria

Good working knowledge of English and Russian

Application procedure 

(essay, test, interview, etc.)

Application form, statement of purpose, interview

Deadline for submitting applications

April 20, 2010

 

 

 

 

Contact information for applicants and general inquiries

 

Contact person

Dmitro Kobrinski, Deputy Director, Senior Lecturer, Psychology and Law Institute, Kiev National University of Interior.

E-mail

dukduk@rambler.ru

Telephone/fax

+380-50-584-89-74

Postal address

Kudriashova str., 8, Kiev, 03035, Ukraina.

Psychology and Law Institute, Kiev National University of Interior.

Web site

www.minerva.kiev.ua

Application form

www.nsu.ru/classics, http://minerva.kiev.ua/?p=334, http://www.lnu.edu.ua/conference/others/ReSET-2010/application_form.doc

 

 

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