Professor Jon M. Van Dyke
University of Hawaii at Manoa Law School
Profs. Wilson, Milstein and Lyon
American University, Washington College of Law
Professors Carolyn Patty Blum and Laurel Fletcher
University of California Berkeley
In this activity, students will draw from several relevant readings to debate the strengths and weaknesses of the Nuremberg Trials in terms of legal precedents set and also justice served.
This lesson was designed for an Introduction to human rights course, however it may be used to introduce a human rights component to a course. The goal is to introduce students to human rights through the concept of the three ‘generations of rights’ using the 30 articles of the UDHR for classification purposes. Students do not need any background on human rights. Actually, this lesson is most effective for introducing students to human rights, especially before they have much exposure to the specifics of the UDHR or the concept of the three generations of rights.