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LW4670 - International Human Rights Law

Offering Academic Unit	School of Law
Credit Units	3
Course Duration	One Semester
Equivalent Course(s)	LW4122 Law of Human Rights and Civil Liberties (LLB) (from the old curriculum) LW4122A Law of Human Rights and Civil Liberties (AMLLB) (from the old curriculum) LW5670 International Human Rights Law
*Course Offering Term:**	Not offering in current academic year

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice

Course Aims

This course aims –

to first introduce students to the concepts of rights and correlative duties as well as to human rights principles and institutions in a comparative context.
to enable students to understand how human rights norms and law are developed and applied both on the domestic and international realms.
to enable students to analyse and critically assess selected contemporary issues of human rights law, including but not limited to, universal suffrage, anti-terrorism and human rights, poverty alleviation, genocide, self-determination, and rights and justice, etc.
to equip students with the capacity to make comparison among international human rights regimes (e.g. civil and political rights v. economic, social and cultural rights), between international (e.g. ICCPR) and regional (e.g. European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights) human rights regimes, and among the human rights regimes of selected countries, with specific emphasis on the European Union, the United States, China and HKSAR.
to enable students to apply human rights norms, principles and law to specific cases and circumstances.
to prepare students to engage in independent research and writing in the area of comparative human rights laws.

Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)

Continuous Assessment: 100%

Detailed Course Information

LW4670.pdf

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