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Postgraduate Course: Law, Culture and Rights in a Transnational World (LAWS11128)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course explores socio-legal and anthropological approaches to the study of law in a transnational world. It covers key theoretical, empirical and methodological issues involving the nature of law and legal process, the relationship between legal and social science approaches to legal phenomena and the interpretation of law in a social context. It examines the impact of transnational relations and globalisation on law, culture and rights both within nation-states and beyond their boundaries and at a number of levels, incorporating local, national and international domains. Topics to be covered include legal pluralism and human rights, property relations and indigenous people, democracy and governance, citizenship, and gendered perspectives on law.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
The course will help students develop:
(a) a critical analysis of the way law operates at multiple levels, in an age where law and legal institutions now cross local, regional and national boundaries;
(b) conceptual tools for scrutinizing the ways in which states regulate and respond to pluralism in contexts where they can no longer be viewed as the central standpoint from which to analyse law ; and
(c) a more nuanced understanding of how local communities and social actors engage with law and how universal categories of rights are implemented, resisted and transformed in ways that take account of the fact that state law is not the only source of power and that 'culture' is a dynamic concept.
deeper understanding of the ethical implications and commitments of spending a professional life helping to enforce private law and its main institutions.

* the role of international human rights as perceived and utilised by various constituencies, including indigenous people, minorities, states, non-governmental organisations and individuals

* how local communities and social actors engage with law and how universal categories of rights are implemented, resisted and transformed.

By the end of the course students will have the following:
* An advanced understanding of social science approaches to research into legal process, and their distinctiveness in relation to more narrowly legal approaches.
* An advanced understanding of the nature and implications of legal practices for wider social, political and cultural processes.
* An advanced understanding of a variety of methodological techniques and their implications for Law and Society research.
* An advanced understanding of the relationship between research methods, substantive issues and theoretical approaches.
* An advanced understanding of the implications of alternative epistemological frameworks for theory construction, research questions and analytical techniques.
Reading List
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Contacts
Course organiserProf Anne Griffiths
Tel: (0131 6)50 2057
Email: anne.griffiths@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lene Mccool
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: lene.mccool@ed.ac.uk
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