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Law, Rights and Development - LAWS8192

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: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 9230 or 5740 or 9220 or 5750 or 9211 or 5211.

Excluded: JURD7892

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Development is vital to the livelihoods of billions of people. This course explores the interactions between international human rights law, other bodies of international law and the process or phenomenon of development. It does this by exploring the legal and normative framework within which international law involves itself in rights and development and by identifying several aspects for closer examination. Particular attention is given to: theories of rights and development; the role of ‘political’ laws in development; the gender dimensions of development, community participation in development projects, development aid, the rule of law, the impact of international economic law on rights and development and transnational business.
This course will focus on international law and development and will explore these ideas from the viewpoint of law’s bright and dark sides. Law, Rights and Development is one of the elective subjects for law and will normally be taken after completion of a more general international law course.


LLM Specialisation

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

This course aims to:
  • Examine and analyse the main legal concepts and principles of international human rights law
  • Examine the interaction between international human rights and development
  • Develop the skills necessary for communicating and debating the role law, rights and development play in the general growth of law and society

Learning Outcomes

  • Advanced disciplinary knowledge and practices
  • Cognitive skills and critical thinking
  • Communication, adaptive and interactional skills
  • Global outlook
Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
  • Outline the key issues concerning law and development
  • Respect and critique traditional arguments from a contemporary perspective
  • Exercise analytical and comparative skills at a higher level
  • Draw on knowledge from a number of related disciplines to understand the complexity of
  • development issues
  • Articulate personal views based on a more profound understanding of the complexity of the world in which the students live and work

Main Topics

  • Theories of Law and Development
  • The Right to Development
  • Gender and Development
  • Community Participation
  • The Bretton Woods Institutions and Development
  • Labour and Development
  • Development Aid
  • The Rule of Law

Assessment

Class Participation -15%
In- Class Exercise - 25%
Final Eesearch Essay (6,000 words) - 60%

Course Texts

Prescribed
Course Materials must be purchased from the UNSW Bookshop.

Recommended
Additional materials will be distributed during classes. The further reading listed each week is optional and is not contained in the Course Materials. It is available online or at the UNSW Law School Library.

Resources

Refer to Course Outline on Blackboard.
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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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