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Semester 2

International Human Rights Law (LAWS10224)

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 a public international law course equivalent to International Law Ordinary Semester 1 (LAWS08114). 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 will provide students with an introduction to the fundamental dimensions of international human rights law, including: the nature and status of human rights, debates concerning the politics and efficacy of human rights, the two major international treaties, the extraterritorial application of human rights law, and some case studies in the jurisprudence of human rights on particular topics.

Course Description

1. What are human rights?; 2. History of human rights; 3. The international human rights institutions; 4. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 5. The right to life; 6. The prohibition on torture and the Convention against torture; 7. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; 8. The right to food; 9. The right to health; 10. Do human rights work?

Assessment Information

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

Additional Restrictions

This course cannot be taken alongside International Law Ordinary Semester 1 (LAWS08114). **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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