Indigenous Peoples in International Law - JURD7613
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS8413
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- 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
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