Postgraduate Module Descriptor

LAWM671: International Human Rights Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:

The nature and development of human rights in international law
Global and regional standard-setting and implementation
Legal accountability for human rights – interpretation and human rights treaty bodies
Regional human rights courts
Emerging challenges

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
33	267	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	30	10 x 3 hour seminars
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	3	Attendance at events hosted by relevant Law School research centres / networks, namely: Exeter Centre for International Law Science, Culture and the Law at Exeter (SCuLE) Human Rights and Democracy Forum Routes
Guided independent study	147	Preparation for scheduled learning and teaching sessions (including pre-reading and the completion of learning activities)
Guided independent study	120	Assessments preparation

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9200
Human rights documents and materials: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
UN Documentation: Human Rights: http://research.un.org/en/docs/humanrights
Universal Human Rights Index: http://uhri.ohchr.org/
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: http://www.ohchr.org/
European Convention on Human Rights website: http://human-rights-convention.org/
European Court of Human Rights: http://www.echr.coe.int/
Inter-American Court of Human Rights: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: http://www.african-court.org/
American Society of International Law Electronic Resource Guide on International Human Rights: http://www.asil.org/erg/?page=ihr

Rosalyn Higgins, Problems & Process: International Law and How We Use It (Clarendon) 1994
Philip Alston and James Crawford (eds.), The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring (CUP) 2000
Philip Alston and Mary Robinson (eds), Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement (OUP) 2005
Andrew Clapham, Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors (OUP) 2006
Christian Tomuschat, Human Rights. Between Idealism and Realism (OUP) 2008
Adam McBeth, Justine Nolan, Simon Rice, The International Law of Human Rights (OUP) 2011
Michael Haas, International Human Rights, 2nd ed (Routledge) 2013