This is an undergraduate university course (intermediate level) equals to 5 credits. Organiser is the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University (the project members are also lecturers!). It is composed of 18 hours lectures + 4 hours moot court participation.
Place: Educarium (Assistentinkatu 5, Turku), Lecture Room 2. (Exception on 2 December: PharmaCity (Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4 b), Lecture Room 1)
Target Audience: Students of Law, Social Sciences or other related fields. Researchers interested in the theme.
NOTE: Observers outside the academic environment, e.g. staff of organisations of persons with disabilities are warmly welcome to apply for observer-status or full participant status. Please send your 1/2 page letter of interest to jukka.kumpuvuori(at)abo.fi by 18.November the latest. Course materials are not distributed to participants with observer status. Observers will not gain study points for attending the course. Observers are allowed to participate only to lecture sessions of the course.
Registration: Please e-mail to jukka.kumpuvuori(at)abo.fi by 18 November the latest. Please indicate in your e-mail if you have any disability-related or other needs you want to be accommodated during the course.
TIME TABLE OF THE COURSE
16 Handing out the take-home exam (Jukka Kumpuvuori & Edson Ngirabakunzi)
10-12 Equality and Non-Discrimination in the Context of Disability – an International Perspective (Michael Stein)
13-15 Equality and Non-Discrimination in the Context of Disability – the European Community Perspective (Lisa Waddington)
15-16 Round Table on Equality and Non-Discrimination (Lecturers of the Course & Actors of Local Disability Organisations)
Wednesday 2 December
11-16:30 Seminar on Human Rights and Persons with Disabilities in Higher Education (program is available by e-mail.) Organised and sponsored by the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.
Thursday 3 December
Seminar in Helsinki on Preparation Work of the Finnish Disability Policy (Participation is voluntary. Travel cost is not covered by the course organiser).
13-15 Practical Implications of Human Rights in the Daily Life of a Person with a Disability (Zachary Kaddu and Riku Virtanen)
Monday 7 December
9 E-mail –returns of the take-home exam by 9 a.m.
15 – 18 Preparations for the Moot Court in groups
10-14 Moot Court + Debriefing of the take-home exam
15 Closing the course
[1] Moot Court is an exercise in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings by drafting briefs and participating in oral argumentation.
