Modern Strategy of teaching Human Rights
At Kuwait University:
The Position of International Law
An the Role of Shari’a
Dr. Mdyous Al-Rashidi
Teacher of the Law of the Sea University
Faculty of Law and specialist in the Law of
Treaties and Staes Succession
Since Kuwait University includes the Faculty of Shari’a and the Faculty of Law, this study undertakes the role establishing main bases of new and modern strategy of teaching Human Rights to the students of this university.
One of these bases, which the strategy stresses, is to use the comparative method in teacing to compare between the position of International Law and the role of Shari’a in the field of human rights.
The second basis of the strategy is to reject, the wide spreading doubts among ordinary persons regarding the legal nature of human rights. These doubts may affect negatively the decision of any student to choose studying the subject f Human Rights.
The third basis of this strategy is to reject the point of view held by some politicians and scholars of law claiming that teaching Human Rights must not be compulsory but elective, since there is no legal rule, whether in international law or in Sharia, to impose it as an obligation that must be fulfilled.
All these bases constitute a new and modern strategy of teaching human rights at Kuwait University, which will lead students to reach a specific and very practical conclusion in regard to studying a subjects of Human Rights.