Course

Indigenous Peoples in International Law - LAWS8413

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 5740 or 9210 or 9240 or 5760 or 9211 or 5211.

Excluded: JURD7613, LAWS3713

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The past three decades have seen the worlds more than 300 million indigenous people make significant advances in international law with the recognition of Indigenous rights through current and newly established mechanisms that advance the development of norms relating to Indigenous rights. This course synthesises the contemporary international law pertaining to in particular the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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
  • Who are ips? What is the right to selfdetermination?
  • 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
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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