Introduction to Human Rights Law

International Human Rights Law has grown exponentially in recent years with a global impetus to ensure that states both protect and respect human rights. This module seeks to provide post-graduate students with a general introduction to the sources, systems and foundations of international human rights law.

Format: The course combines lectures and tutorial group meetings. Students are expected to read material in advance, and to engage in debate and discussion of the relevant issues during seminars.

Semester: 1

ECTS: 15

Lecturers: Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh

Learning Outcomes: 

• Be able to conduct effective research in the field of international human rights law. 
• Be familiar with the major universal and regional systems of human rights law, their relationships to each other, and the legal value and authority of declarations, decisions, judgments and other materials generated by them.
• Be comfortable with general concepts of public international law, to the extent that they are relevant in the field of human rights.
• Develop an awareness of the primary areas of concern within the field of international human rights law and other relevant branches of international law, and the ways in which human rights are promoted and protected.

Introduction to International Human Rights Law 2018-2019