Module LAWM094 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM094: Human Dignity and Human Rights in the EU
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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A detailed essay outline and a fully written up introduction, to be submitted on a voluntary and rolling basis for each workshop. Each student is encouraged to do this once during the term. | 600 words | 1-7 | Feedback will be given for one outline per student, with individual feedback on the formative work and general comments to the group where they are relevant to the whole group. |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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An essay on a topic chosen by each student with the lecturers guidance and approval | 100 | 7500 words max | 1-7 | Written comments on feedback sheet with opportunity for an individual meeting with lecturer for further oral feedback |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay | Same topic as originally agreed | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
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.
Basic reading:
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, The Age of Dignity, Human Rights and Constitutionalism in Europe (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2015, forthcoming)
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) 3-24
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)