Module LAW3108C for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3108C: Business and Human Rights Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to support you in developing detailed knowledge and understanding of business and human rights law. It provides the theoretical, conceptual and legal grounding needed for you to confidently engage in the effective discussion of human rights challenges in the business context. Its content is informed by key texts and the latest research, and the module is permeated by pertinent contemporary case study examples from around the world. It is research-enriched, not only in respect to the content covered but also in its learning approach, with student-led research at its core. This is a cross-campus, interdisciplinary module that, by bringing together students, academics and practitioners from across business and law, and from across the University of Exeter’s campuses, delivers a learning experience that exemplifies the importance of collaboration in the exploration and resolution of contemporary global challenges.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of business and human rights law. 2. Demonstrate critical awareness of the pervasive impacts of business practices on international human rights protection. 3. Demonstrate critical awareness of the place of human rights in the private sphere. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Identify, assess and integrate relevant information from a breadth of suitable sources using appropriate interpretative techniques. 5. 5 Select, synthesise and critically assess the existence, application and implementation of international human rights normative provisions in the business context. |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Demonstrate confidence in articulating complex legal, theoretical and conceptual content using an interdisciplinary approach. 7. Produce analytically compelling, research-informed work that presents a persuasive and appropriately nuanced argument on a topic relevant to a theme or themes covered on the module. 8. Work independently, efficiently managing ones time in the preparation of scheduled learning activities, exercises and assessments. |
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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Research poster | A1 (including visuals and a maximum of 500 words) | 1-8 | Individual oral and written feedback; whole cohort oral feedback |
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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Research paper | 100 | 2,500 words | 1-8 | Individual written feedback |
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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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Research paper (2,500 words) | Research paper (2,500 words) | 1-8 | August/September re-assessment 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.
- Addo MK, The Legal Nature of International Human Rights (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2010).
- Buhmann K, Roseberry L and Morsing M (eds), Corporate Social Human Rights Responsibilities Global Legal and Management Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).
- Deva S and Bilchitz D (eds), Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect (Cambridge University Press 2013).
- Deva S and Bilchitz D (eds), Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights
Context and Contours (Cambridge University Press 2018). - Evans M (ed), International Law (5th edn, Oxford University Press 2018).
- Newton E, The Business of Human Rights: Best Practice and the UN Guiding Principles (Routledge 2019).
- Palombo D, Business and Human Rights: The Obligations of the European Home States (Hart 2020).
- Rodriguez-Garavito C, Business and Human Rights: Beyond the End of the Beginning (Cambridge University Press 2017).
- Smith R, International Human Rights Law (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2020).