LAWS322-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

International Human Rights

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

Description

An introduction to international human rights instruments and institutions.

This course provides an introduction to international human rights law and the international human rights framework in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. The course aims to familiarise students with the core legal instruments and institutions relevant to the protection and promotion of human rights at the international level, along with some of the topical issues and controversies. The course will look at the historical origins of the human rights idea, discuss the major multilateral human rights treaties and institutions within the United Nations system, consider selected topical issues in the human rights field, and look at the links between international human rights and domestic implementation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • carry out research in the international human rights field that demonstrates their information literacy;
  • deliver a presentation that communicates their knowledge, understanding and critical evaluative skills to others;
  • understand, interpret and critique the key elements of the international human rights framework;
  • identify international human rights issues in factual scenarios and construct responses to those issues; and
  • understand and explain the relationship between the international and domestic systems of human rights protection.
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator

Natalie Baird

Lecturers

Cassandra Mudgway and Liam Grant

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 23 Aug 2023 35%
Group Video Presentation 22 Sep 2023 15%
Final Exam 50%


Assessment tasks and dates will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Bedggood, Margaret , Gledhill, Kris, McIntosh, Ian; International human rights law in Aotearoa New Zealand ; Thomson Reuters, 2017.

McBeth, Adam , Nolan, Justine, Rice, Simon(Professor of law); The international law of human rights ; Second edition; Oxford University Press, 2017.

Moeckli, Shah, Sivakumaran and Harris (eds); International Human Rights Law ; 4th ed; Oxford University Press, 2022.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $868.00

International fee $4,488.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS322 Occurrences

  • LAWS322-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023