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Indigenous Peoples in International Law - LAWS8413
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9230, 9240, 5740, 5760, 9211 or 5211.
 
 
Excluded: JURD7613
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The past three decades have seen the worlds more than 300 million indigenous people make significant advances in international law with the recognition of Indigenous rights through current and newly established mechanisms that advance the development of norms relating to Indigenous rights. The international system has responded to the increased awareness of the human rights problems Indigenous peoples face and as a result, discernible trends and normative developments have emerged at the international level relating to Indigenous peoples. This course synthesises the contemporary international law pertaining to in particular the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This course is also available to students undertaking relevant postgraduate non-law degree programs at UNSW, provdied such enrolment is approved by the appropriate non-law Faculty.

LLM Specialisations

Human Rights and Social Justice;International Law

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this course should be able to:
  • Appreciate the history of Indigenous peoples engagement in international law
  • Have a deeper understanding of the historical consequences of dispossession of Indigenous peoples and how it has manifested in contemporary human rights issues.
  • Specialised knowledge in the normative framework in international law pertaining to Indigenous peoples
  • A deeper understanding of the common problems facing the worlds' 300 million Indigenous peoples that dominate international concern and inform the normative framework

Main Topics

  • Who are ips? What is the right to self-determination?
  • UN human rights treaty body jurisprudence
  • United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
  • United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
  • United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • World Bank, IMF, MNCs and economic development
  • WTO: TRIPS, GASCM and FTAs
  • Indigenous Knowledge: WIPO, CBD, Climate change
  • ILO
  • OAS

Assessment

8,000 word assignment (including footnotes)  80%
 Class participation  20%

Course Texts

Prescribed

Course Materials will be available for purchase from the UNSW Bookshop prior to the course

Recommended

Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer at the beginning of session.

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Resources

Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer at the beginning of session.

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