Transnational Business and Human Rights - LAWS8189
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:
Pre-requisite: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 9230 or 5740 or 9211 or 5211 or 9231 or 5231 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7589
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course is also available to students undertaking relevant postgraduate non-law degree programs at UNSW, provided such enrolment is approved by the appropriate non-law Faculty.
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Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Core disciplinary knowledge :a functioning and contextual knowledge of law and legal institutions
- Transferable intellectual skills: excellent intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis, critical judgment, reflection and evaluation
- Research skills: the capacity to engage in practical and scholarly research
- Communication skills: effective oral and written communication skills both generally and in specific legal settings
- Personal and professional values: a commitment to personal and professional self-development, ethical practice and social responsibility
- To examine and analyse the main legal concepts and principles of international human rights law, particularly those rights which relate to global economic activity
- To acquire a sound understanding of the core objectives of and legal principles in the main bodies of public international economic law, particularly international trade and investment law
- To explore the impacts of international economic law on human rights
- To study and evaluate current initiatives for the regulation (and self-regulation) of transnational corporations in relation to human rights
- To assess the effectiveness of avenues for enforcement of international human rights principles and law in the global economy
Main Topics
- The context: globalisation
- The internationalisation of economic law and human rights law
- Key objectives, principles and structure of international human rights law
- Economic and social rights: character, content, enforcement
- The nature of states' obligations under the ICESCR
- International trade and human rights in developing countries
- Mapping the intersections between human rights and WTO law
- Case study: Trade in agriculture, the right to food and the global food crisis
- Case study: Intellectual property rights and access to drugs in developing countries
- Case study: Trade in services and the right to water
- International investment and human rights in developing countries
- The human rights responsibilities of transnational corporations
- Initiatives to regulate the human rights-related activities of transnational corporations
- Climate change and global economic law
Assessment
Short Answer Question 10%
Research Essay 80%
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Course materials must be purchased from the UNSW Bookshop. Additional materials will be distributed during classes. A list of further reading for the course will be posted to Blackboard prior to the commencement of classes.
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