International Law of Equality and Discrimination - LAWS8391
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 9211 or 5211 or 9231 or 5231 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7412, JURD7691, JURD7792, LAWS3412, LAWS8392
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.
LLM Specialisations
Human Rights and Social Justice.
International Law.
Main Topics
- Theories of equality
- The principle of equality: conceptual and historical background
- The prohibition on discrimination
- Concepts in anti-discrimination: prohibited grounds and special measures
- The International Bill of Human Rights
- Discrimination on the basis of sex and sexual orientation
- Race, religion, ethnicity and discrimination
- Indigenous peoples and discrimination
- Discrimination on the basis of disability
- New grounds of discrimination
- International mechanisms for implementation and compliance
- Comparing and contrasting domestic implementation and enforcement of anti-discrimination principles
- Advocacy for equality, including litigation.