International Protection of Human Rights 

The following disciplines are studied within the framework of this master's program 

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 

Topic 1. Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. 

Topic 2. Legal Positivism. 

Topic 3. Natural Law Theory. 

Topic 4. Human Rights. 

COMPARATIVE LAW RESEARCH 

Topic 1. Nature of comparative jurisprudence. 

Topic 2. Legal picture of the world (legal geography).  

Topic 3. Objects of comparative jurisprudence. 

Topic 4. Methodology of comparative jurisprudence.  

Topic 5. Levels of comparative jurisprudence. 

Topic 6. Comparative jurisprudence in the conditions of globalization. 

Topic 7. Problems of comparative jurisprudence in the solution of problems of the European legal space. 

Topic 8. Deleting of sides between the romano-German and Anglo-Saxon legal systems. 

Topic 9. A role of comparative and legal researches in the course of unification of the right. 

Topic 10. Scientific and practical importance of comparative jurisprudence. 

HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY OF LEGAL SCIENCE 

Topic 1. Law and Legal Science 

Topic 2. Law as an object of research 

Topic 3. History of Legal Science 

Topic 4. Sources of law and sources of law cognition 

Topic 5. Contemporary scientific approaches in legal science 

INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DEVELOPMENT 

Section 1. SDGs and International Legal Regulation of Space Activities. 

Section 2. Development in International Law. 

Section 3. Migration and development: Some international legal aspects of interrelation. 

Section 4. The International environmental law: some tendencies of development in the Anthropocene. 

Section 5. Jurisdiction and Immunities in Contemporary International law. 

Section 6. International legal regulation of the use of new energy sources (renewable / alternative energy). 

Section 7. Protection of atmosphere and International law. 

Section 8. Artificial Intelligence and International Law 

Section 9. The evolution of human rights in World Health Organization policy and the future of human rights through global health governance. 

Section 10. International legal regulation of cryptocurrencies and other Blockchain technologies. 

Section 11. New aspects of the development of modern International humanitarian law. 

Section 12. Limitation of human rights in view of modern challenges and threats. 

Section 13. Modern technologies and international law of the sea. 

Section 14. International criminal justice bodies and the SDGs. 

INTERNATIONAL LAW: ISSUES OF MIGRATION AND ASYLUM 

Section 1. International legal regulation of migration: the sources, mechanisms. Specific issues of international legal cooperation in the field of migration.  

Section 2. International legal protection of refugees and other groups of forced migrants. 

PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UN SYSTEM 

Section 1. Human rights in the history of international relations and international law 

Section 2. UN Charter and the principle of respect for and protection of human rights. International Bill of Human Rights. 

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 (ICCPR) 

Section 3. International Bill of Human Rights: legal content. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 

Section 4. The International Conferences on Human Rights and their outcomes 

Section 5. The competence of the principal organs of the UN and of the specialized agencies of the UN to protect human rights 

Section 6. The competence of the subsidiary human rights organs of the UN 

Section 7. Core international human rights treaties and their monitoring mechanisms - human rights treaty bodies 

Section 8. Responsibility for violations of human rights 

Section 9. National mechanisms for the protection of human rights 

HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES 

Section 1. Conceptual and normative basis of the work of the treaty bodies in the institutional human rights system 

Section 2. Human rights treaty bodies: establishment, membership, competencies 

Section 3. Procedure of consideration of periodic reports by human rights treaty bodies and individual communication by human rights treaty bodies 

Section 4. Legal nature of the outcome documents of the human rights treaty bodies and their legal status in national legal systems  

Section 5. Cooperation of the human rights treaty bodies with the national human rights institutions (NHRI), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the OHCHR and the UN Human Rights Council 

Section 6. HRTBs Mooting seminar 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS 

Part I. Formation and development of the environmental rights concept. Universal level of the protection of environmental human rights. 

Part II. Regional level of the protection of environmental human rights. 

EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS 

Section 1. Respect for human rights and freedoms in the activities of the Council of Europe 

Section 2. The European Court of Human Rights: organization of activities and competence 

Section 3. Mechanisms of the Council of Europe for the protection of human Rights 

Section 4. Monitoring system for the promotion and protection of the rights of national minorities 

Section 5. Protection of human rights under the law of the European Union 

Section 6. OSCE human rights protection mechanisms 

AFRICAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS 

Section 1. Integration process and history of human rights protection in Africa 

Section 2. African Charter on human and peoples’ rights and the mechanisms of implementation 

Section 3. Comparing universal and African system of human rights protection 

Section 4. Protection of human rights in African sub-regional organizations 

THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN INTERNATIONAL LAW 

Section 1. The conceptual framework of the right to health in international law 

Section 2. International and legal consolidation of the right to 

health at the universal, regional and national level 

Section 3. International cooperation of states in the field of ensuring the right to health 

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR RIGHTS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 

Section 1. Labour rights and the global economy. International labour law in the system of public international law.  

Section 2. ILO 

Section 3. International cooperation on the protection of labour rights. 

Section 4. International civil service 

HUMAN RIGHTS, SDGS AND CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY 

Part I. SDGs and Human rights.  

Part II. Climate change, disasters, and SDGs. International economic law and SDGs. 

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 

Part I. The modern trends of the human rights development in the sphere of international business. 

Part II. Human rights protection in the sphere of international business within the UN. 

Part III. The UN activity concerning human rights protection in the sphere of international business at regional level. 

DISCRIMINATION AND GENDER ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LAW 

Section 1. Discrimination: notion, significance for international law, sources.  

Section 2. Racial discrimination: instruments and mechanisms of international cooperation.  

Section 3. Other grounds of discrimination and international instruments and mechanisms to eliminate it. 

Section 4. Gender issues in contemporary international law: protection of women’s rights, empowerment of women. 

Section 5. Gender issues in contemporary international law: LGBT and human rights protection; men and human rights protection.  

Section 6. Freedom and responsibility, rights and duties in context of human rights protection. 

INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS 

Section 1. Integration process in Americas and the Creation of the Organization of American States (OAS) 

Section 2. Inter-American Commission on human rights (IACHR) 

Section 3. Inter-American Court of human rights (IACtHR) 

Section 4. Comparing Inter-American system of human rights protection to universal and other regional human rights systems  

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND MINORITIES RIGHTS PROTECTION 

Section 1. The history of the formation and development of the institution for the protection of indigenous peoples in international law 

Section 2. Problems of defining the concept of "indigenous people" in international law 

Section 3. Problems of defining the concept of "minority" in international law 

Section 4 Status of Indigenous Peoples under Contemporary International Law 

Section 5 Status of minorities under contemporary international law 

Section 6. Indigenous peoples and the principle of equal rights and self- determination of peoples 

Section 7. Minorities and the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples 

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW 

Section 1. The Definition and Subject of IHL 

Section 2. The Sources of IHL and Principles of IHL 

Section 3. International Armed Conflicts and Non-International Armed Conflicts 

Section 4. International Armed Conflicts and Non-International Armed Conflicts: Victims Protection 

Section 5. The Prohibition or Restriction of Methods and Means of Warfare and Human Rights 

Section 6. The Implementation of IHL 

Section 7. The Responsibility for Violations of IHL