Undergraduate Course: Human Rights (LAWS10142)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of international, regional and national systems for protecting human rights, and of the relationship between them, so as to build on the treatment of human rights in Public Law and Individual Rights. The course will examine the difficulties and controversies in enforcing civil and political rights, socio-economic rights and group rights, respectively. The course will also examine specialist regimes such as those relating to women, children, national minorities and indigenous peoples. Each topic will be approached so as to provide an overview of the topic and contextual examination of the practical difficulties of enforcing rights by focusing on how a particular human rights abuse has been addressed in practice. Finally, the course will cover current controversies in human rights law such as how to deal with 'transitional justice', or the debate over a bill of rights in the UK context. 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. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 38,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
351 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Essay and written examination |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Paper 1 | 3:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students will have:
acquired an understanding of international, regional and national systems for protecting human rights, and of the relationship between them, as well as human rights advocacy in a non-governmental setting;
developed an awareness of the difficulties and controversies in enforcing civil and political rights, socio-economic rights and group rights, and specialist regimes such as those relating to women, children, national minorities and indigenous peoples.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Human Rights |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Christine Bell
Tel:
Email: christine.bell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Heather Haig
Tel: (0131 6)50 2053
Email: Heather.Haig@ed.ac.uk |
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