Unit name | African Human Rights System |
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Unit code | LAWDM0135 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Murray |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
Students would benefit from studying this concurrently with the International Law and Human Rights unit. |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit aims to provide a critical and practical analysis of the African human rights legal system. It will provide students with a detailed knowledge of the human rights organs and bodies, and standards at the African Union, in addition to examining the working practices and jurisprudence of the African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples’ rights.
By the end of the unit, a successful student will be able to:
Students will be able to describe the legal principles accurately, to apply these principles to cases, and to appraise ways in which the law could be reformed. The coursework, a legal brief and a critical essay, aims to test these range of skills.
The contact hours for this unit will be 30 hours. This will usually take the form of: 8 lectures, 10 two-hour seminars and 2 assessment preparation and feedback sessions.
Summative: 2 x 3000 word essays (50% each) will assess the candidate's ability to research a topic within the scope of this unit. Both assessments will assess all of the Intended Learning Outcomes for this unit in the context of topics selected by the examiners.
Formative: students should do one formative assessment (this will usually be 1 x 1500 word essay).