Module LAWM063 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM063: Human Dignity and Human Rights in the EU (MRes in Socio-Legal Research programme)
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The syllabus below indicates the key themes and issues discussed in this module. It will vary slightly every year to reflect the latest developments in positive law and scholarly discussion on dignity and human rights in the EU.
- Human rights in the EU: Antagonism or synergy?
- Locating human dignity and human rights
- Human dignity as a foundation of human rights in the EU
- Protecting human rights and human dignity
- Interpreting human rights and human dignity
- Taking a critical view of dignity as a foundation
- Human rights and dignity without Europe
- The EU without human rights and dignity
Learning and Teaching
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 | 117 | 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 | 33 | Two weekly 1h 30 min interactive workshops,. The first workshops will be led by the lecturer and students are expected to become gradually more involved in defining the workshops focus and in leading them. |
| Guided independent study | 50 | 5 hours per week over 10 weeks for workshop preparation |
| Guided independent study | 67 | 67 hours for reflection, research, and writing the formative essay outline and summative essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ECJ case law: http://curia.europa.eu
ECHR case law: http://www.echr.coe.int/
Venice Commission: http://www.venice.coe.int/
Other Learning Resources
Cambridge Law Journal
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Columbia Journal of European Law
International Journal of Constitutional Law
European Constitutional Law Review
Public Law
German Law Journal
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
P Alston (ed), The EU and Human Rights (OUP, 1999)
P Alston and O de Schutter (eds) Monitoring Human Rights in the EU (Hart, 2005)
C Dupré, Importing the Law in Post-Communist Transitions, The Hungarian Constitutional Court and the Right to Human Dignity (Hart, 2003)
C Dupré, ‘Human Dignity in Europe: A Foundational Constitutional Principle’ (2013) European Public Law 319
C Dupré, ‘Article 1 EU Charter’ in T Hervey, S Peers, J Kenner and A Ward (eds) A Commentary on the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights (Hart Publishing, 2014, forthcoming)
C Dupré, ‘Dignity, Democracy, Civilisation’ (2013) Liverpool Law Review 263
EJ Eberle, Dignity and Liberty (Praeger, 1995)
E O Eriksen et al (eds.) Developing a Constitution for Europe (Routledge, 2004)
D Feldman, ‘Human Dignity as a Legal Value’ Part I Public Law (1999), p.682 and Part II, Public Law , (2000), 61
G P Fletcher, ‘Human Dignity as a Constitutional Value’ (1984) University of Western Ontario Law Review , 171-182;
J Jones, ‘”Common constitutional traditions”: can the meaning of human dignity under German law guide the ECJ?’ [2004]Public Law , 167
G Kateb, Human Dignity (Harvard University Press, 2011)
C McCrudden, ‘Human dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights’ [2008] European Journal of International Law , 655
A von Bogdandy and J Bast (eds), Principles of European Constitutional Law (Hart, 2010)
Venice Commission (ed), The principle of protection of human dignity (Council of Europe Publishing, 1999)
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk
