European and International Human Rights Law (LLM), Edinburgh Law School

The objective of the course is to enable students primarily through research, presentation, discussion and writing, to acquire a thorough knowledge of, and an ability to critically analyze, the theory and the law of human rights protection at the regional and international levels. By the end of the course students should have (1) overall awareness of the history and theory of human rights in law and more generally, (2) detailed knowledge of the law of the European Convention on Human Rights and its enforcement mechanism as well as other European human rights instruments (3) detailed knowledge of the enforcement mechanisms of general public international law and of selected topics of subtantive law, (4) familiarity with the specialised tools and resources for research into human rights law. The course contains a general introduction to theories of human rights, categories of human rights and methods of enforcement; close examination and analysis of substantive rights and will also look at a number of selected issues in contemporary European and International Human Rights Law.

Please note that the final seminar in week 10 scheduled to take place on Thursday 28 March will now take place on Tuesday 26 March. BOTH classes will run together from 16:10-18:00 in Lecture Theatre 183.
Email: D.Thompson@ed.ac.uk

Please note that the topics for week 17 (7 March) and week 18 (14 March) have now been changed around.

Both week's reading lists are now up on the web. Human Rights and Powersharing will be examined on the 7 March, and Human Rights and Technology on 14 March.

For any of you had started this week's reading already, please note that this is now changed to the readings on Human Rights and Power-sharing (any reading you have already undertaken will still be useful for the following week).

Thank-you very much.
Email: christine.bell@ed.ac.uk

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