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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3085C: Human Rights Law

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

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:

• Philosophical and political theories about human rights
• International and national developments that led to the creation of modern human rights law
• Human rights systems outside of Europe
• Human rights in Europe
• Common law rights and the Human Rights Act 1998/European Convention on Human Rights
• ECHR rights including
  • Right to life (Article 2)
  • Prohibition of torture (Article 3)
  • Prohibition of slavery (Article 4)
  • Personal liberty (Article 5)
  • Right to a fair trial (Article 6) 
  • Right to respect for private life (Article 8)
  • Right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion (Article 9)
  • Freedom of expression (Article 10) 
  • Freedom to assembly and association (Article 11)
  • Freedom from discrimination (Article 14)
  • Contemporary developments and challenges in the field of human rights

Learning and Teaching

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

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

Online Resources

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

ELE – vle.exeter.ac.uk

Other Learning Resources

 You are expected to keep up to date with topical events. This is best done by reading newspapers such as The Times, The Guardian, The Independent or The Telegraph. You may also find recent and current editions of specialist journals, such as Public Law and Modern Law Review, which are available digitally in the Law Library, useful for this purpose.

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.

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.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

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.

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