Unit name | Human Rights in Law, Politics and Society |
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Unit code | LAWDM0089 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Greer |
Open unit status | Open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Liberalism and the Natural Rights Tradition; Western Critics of the Human Rights Ideal; Human Rights in International Law and International Relations; Europe; Islam and Chinese Values; Globalization and Development; Multiculturalism and Minority Rights; Humanitarian Intervention; Human Rights and the War on Terror; Transitional Justice.
By the end of the unit, a successful student will be able to explain:
a) the nature of human rights; b) its contested status in debates about non-western political moralities, globalization, international law and international relations; c) identify and discuss some core debates where human rights are particularly central, eg transitional justice, terrorism, multiculturalism.
Students should be able to state the various arguments and positions in key debates ccurately, to assess them critically and to come to reasoned provisional conclusions about how challenging issues might best be understood and problems resolved.
This unit is also intended to improve the following benchmark skills – critical analysis of written texts and written argumentation.
10 fortnightly 2 hour seminars
One three-hour closed book examination in May/June, in which students answer 3 questions from a choice of 7 or 8 questions (67%), plus 3,000 word essay (33%)