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