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Semester 1

Human Rights Honours (20 credit) (LAWS10212)

Course Website

http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/23-24/dpt/cxlaws10212.htm

Subject

Law

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed 3 Law courses at grade B or above, including courses equivalent to Public Law of the UK & Scotland (LAWS08123) and Public Law & Individual Rights (LAWS08132). We will only consider University/College level courses. This course is only open to visiting students who are nominated to study with us on a Law exchange agreement. Exchange students outside of Law and study abroad students are not eligible to enrol on this course before teaching begins, with no exceptions, and spaces cannot be guaranteed to those students at any time. **Please see Additional Restrictions**

Course Summary

This course provides a comprehensive overview of domestic, regional and international systems for protecting human rights, and of the relationship between them, so as to build on the treatment of human rights in the Ordinary courses of Public Law and Individual Rights (PLAIR), and Public Law of the UK and Scotland (PLUS).

Course Description

The course will both provide an overview of human rights regimes and machinery at the international and domestic level, and examine how particular human rights abuses are addressed in practice. The course will examine: different institutional responses to human rights violations at the international, regional, and national level, and the difficulties and controversies in enforcing civil and political rights, socio-economic rights, and group rights. It will examine how these dynamics play out in the European, UK, and Scottish context. Teaching will be based around practical problems and focused on current controversies. The course aims to be useful to those interested in human rights and legal practice, but also to human rights advocacy in a non-governmental setting, and for those interested in rights issues more generally. **It is anticipated that students will contribute, and be prepared to discuss issues from the various topics. Students are expected to attend all scheduled teaching, and to have read beforehand the relevant cases and statutory provisions, as well as other readings set out for each topic. Sometimes, there will be questions for discussion attached to the Reading Lists. Students will be expected to participate in class discussions.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %

Additional Restrictions

This course cannot be taken alongside Public Law of the UK & Scotland (LAWS08123). **All 3rd year Law courses are ONLY open to visiting students nominated on an exchange agreement within the School of Law (including Erasmus students on a Law-specific exchange). Exchange students outside of Law, and independent study abroad students, are not eligible to enrol in these courses, with no exceptions.** Please note that 3rd year Law courses are high-demand, meaning that they have a very high number of students wishing to enrol in a very limited number of spaces. These enrolments are managed strictly by the CAHSS Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the Law School directly to request additional spaces. If there is sufficient space for other visiting students to enrol at the start of the semester (which cannot be guaranteed at all), visiting students must meet the pre-requisites listed above.

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