| Unit name | European Human Rights Law |
|---|---|
| Unit code | LAWD20040 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Greer |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
To consider critically the central cases, principles, processes, and institutions relating to the European Convention on Human Rights within a broad interdisciplinary framework.
By the end of the unit, a successful student will be able to explain:
Students should also be able critically to appraise the judgments of the ECtHR in relation to wider debates about issues related to core ECHR rights, eg abortion, terrorism, discrimination, and to come to provisional, reasoned conclusions about how they might best be understood and the problems they present resolved.
This unit is also intended to improve the following benchmark skills – critical analysis of legal texts, judicial opinions, and written argumentation.
10 seminars.
Formative assessment: students should do one, and may do two pieces of formative work Summative assessment: one three-hour closed book examination in May/June, in which students answer 3 questions from a choice of 7 or 8 questions.
• White & Ovey, Jacobs, White and Ovey: The European Convention on Human Rights, 5th edn. (Oxford University Press, 2010): provides a broad overview. • Harris, O’Boyle, Bates & Buckley, Harris, O’Boyle & Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, 2nd edn. (Oxford University Press, 2009). • Bates, The Evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights: From its Inception to the Creation of a Permanent Court of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2010). • Greer, The European Convention on Human Rights: Achievements, Problems and Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2006). • Christoffersen & Madsen (eds), The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2011). • Mowbray, Cases and Materials on the European Convention on Human Rights, 3rd edn. (Oxford University Press, 2012).
