The course introduces law students to an up-to-date account of the relevant international legal standards for protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities and the developments in supervisory practice of monitoring bodies. Apart from the Council of Europe's legally binding instruments developed to protect and promote rights of persons belonging to national minorities and to protect and preserve regional and minority languages in Europe, the UN minority rights standards as well as the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities thematic Recommendations and Guidelines, developed to address ethnic tensions and to prevent hostilities over national minority issues, will be thoroughly examined.
- Nositelj kolegija: Antonija Petričušić