I.

First Batch of Basic Materials

1. UN Charter

2. ICJ Statute

3. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

4. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

5. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

6. Convention on Biological Diversity

7. The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and
Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization

8. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species

9. Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild

Fauna and Flora

10. Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

11. Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts,

with commentaries

12. Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v.

United States of America), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment,
I.C.J. Reports 1984, p. 392

13. Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the

Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro),
Judgment, I.C.J. Reports 2007, p. 43

14. Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa
Rica v. Nicaragua) and Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the
San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica), Judgment, I.C.J. Reports
2015, p. 665

15. Trail smelter case (United States, Canada), 3 UNRIAA, p. 1905, 1952

16. African Commission on Human and People's Rights v. Kenya (Ogiek

decision)

17. Inter-American Court of Human Rights, ADVISORY OPINION OC-23/17

OF NOVEMBER 15, 2017

18. UN Human Rights Committee (HRC), CCPR General Comment No. 22:
Article 18 (Freedom of Thought, Conscience or Religion), 30 July 1993,
CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.4
 19. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the
United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework
(A/HRC/17/31)

20. James Anaya, Indigenous Peoples’ Participatory Rights in Relation to

Decisions about Natural Resource Extraction: The More Fundamental
Issue of What Rights Indigenous have in Lands and Resources (2005)
Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 22, No. 1

21. Marko Milanovic, State Responsibility for Acts of Non-state Actors: A

Comment on Griebel and Plucken (2009) Leiden JIL 307

22. Hamdallah Zedan, “Presentation on Convention on Biological Diversity

to the WIPO Seminar on Intellectual Property and Development” (2-3
May 2005)

II. Second Batch of Basic Materials

1. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

2. International Labor Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

3. Whaling in the Antarctic, Australia and New Zealand (intervening) v

Japan, Judgment, ICJ GL No 148, ICGJ 471 (ICJ 2014)

4. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment

no. 21: Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (art. 15, para. 1 (a),
of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)

5. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment

No. 24 (2017) on State obligations under the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities

6. Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 31: The Nature of the
General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant
(2004), UN Doc CCPR/C/21/Rev.1/Add.13

7. Evanson Chege Kamau, Bevis Fedder and Gerd Winter, The Nagoya
Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing: What is
New and what are the Implications for Provider and User Countries and
the Scientific Community?, Law Environ. Dev. J. 2010, 6, 248–263

8. Nicolas Pauchard, Access and Benefit Sharing under the Convention on

Biological Diversity and Its Protocol: What Can Some Numbers Tell Us
about the Effectiveness of the Regulatory Regime? (2017)

9. Robert L. Fischman & Jeffrey B. Hyman, The Legal Challenge of

Protecting Animal Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance, 28 VA.
ENVTL. L.J. 173 (2010)
10. The ETO Consortium, “Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial
Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social & Cultural Rights.”
(2013)

11. Eric Dannenmaier, Beyond Indigenous Property Rights: Exploring the

Emergence of a Distinctive Connection Doctrine, 86 Wash. U. L. Rev. 53
(2008).

12. United Nations Audiovisual Library Resources