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LS5590: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:00


Course Overview

The course was designed to help students build competence in dealing with the doctrinal issues about international human rights. It involves understanding the place of human rights in public international law, finding one’s way around the foundational human rights documents and the jurisprudence of human rights bodies. The course delivery puts heavy emphasis on classroom discussion on the controversial issues on contemporary human rights law that shape doctrinal development in this field: the justifiability of torture, the limits of freedom of religion, the justiciability of social rights, etc.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Matyas Bodig

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of Law (LS) or MSc Strategic Studies and International Law or MSc International Relations and International Law
  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

  • Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course covers the following themes: 1. The Idea of International Human Rights Law and the Universality of Human Rights; 2. Civil and Political Rights I: Right to Life; 3. Civil and Political Rights II: Freedom from Torture; 4. Civil and Political Rights III: Freedom of Religion; 5. Economic and Social Rights I: State Obligations; 6. Economic and Social Rights II: The Justiciability of Social Rights; 7. Peoples’ Rights and the Right of Self-Determination.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

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Word Count 3000
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Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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Exam

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

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if due to extenuating circumstances.

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