Module LAWM114 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM114: Post-Conflict Governance, Rule of Law and Justice
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Aims
You will gain a deeper understanding of post-conflict governance, security and justice, including an increased awareness of current developments and areas of disagreement. The course offers a highly practical insight into how international law is applied in post-conflict/crisis and transitional environments, which is aimed at stimulation of a vibrant discussion of key contemporary challenges in the context of international development.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the rules of international law governing the post-conflict/crisis rule of law, security and governance, including detailed knowledge of the core legal concepts applicable in this area and their contextual/social/political implications. 2. Demonstrate critical understanding of the contemporary challenges facing the stabilization and peacebuilding in young democracies. |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Develop, apply and critically assess international legal arguments, using a wide range of appropriate primary materials and advanced scholarship. 4. Demonstrate critical understanding of the relationship between the different branches and sources of rules of law, including potential norm conflicts, and between legal and non-legal considerations impacting on legal argument and advice. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. Identify, retrieve and use efficiently and autonomously a range of library-based and electronic resources. 6. Identify, retrieve and use efficiently and autonomously a range of library-based and electronic resources. 7. Communicate and engage in debate effectively and accurately, orally and in writing, in a manner appropriate to the discipline. |
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.
T. Bingham, The Rule of Law (2010)
J. Raz, ‘The Rule of Law and Its Virtue’, Law Quarterly Review 93 (1977), 195-211
R Buchanan & P.Zumbasen (Eds.), Law in Transition (2016, paperback)
DFID, FCO& MOD: Building Stability Overseas Strategy ( 2011)
MOD, Shaping a Stable World: the Military Contribution, Joint Doctrine Publication 05 (JDP 05), March 2016
UN Report of Secretary- General on the Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, UN Doc S/2004/616 (2004)
OECD Development Assistance Committee Guidelines: International Support to Post-Conflict Transition, (2012)
