Course

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:

Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9230, 5740, 9240, 5760, 9211, 5211, 9281, 5281, 9220 or 5750.

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.

More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.

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