Lectures and curriculum for this course are aimed at students at master degree level (JUS5710). Students can also take this course at bachelor degree level (JUR1710) with adjusted readings and achievement requirements, see learning outcomes for both levels below.
Learning outcome for master’s level (10 credits): A good understanding is required
Knowledge
Students shall achieve a good understanding of the universal and regional procedures, mechanisms, and institutions involved in the monitoring of compliance of human rights including the UN human rights treaty- and Charter-based procedures and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as a general understanding of the regional human rights courts in the Americas and Africa. It entails a good understanding of the central concepts and principles, rules shaping the roles of different actors, state obligations and key procedural rules of main international human rights conventions and institutions taking into account the decisions and practice of different organs. A good understanding should include critical analyses of the international processes towards human rights compliance informed by the practice of international courts and other organs.
Skills
- Students will be able to identify legal issues of factual situations and to find the appropriate human rights institution and mechanisms.
- Student will be able to analyze and apply relevant sources for resolving legal questions within different human rights mechanisms.
- Students will be able to use and interpret judicial and other decisions of different human rights mechanisms.
- This course will enable students to describe and critically analyse the functions and the effects of central rules and principles, major institutions and procedures within field of human rights.
General competence
- This course will enable students to give advice to individuals, ministries, organisations or business on human rights law and procedures for addressing conflicts and disputes.
- Students will be able to give advice, discuss and assess why States, and other actors, would move from international commitment to human rights to compliance with those rules.
- Students acquire skills that are relevant for future careers as lawyers or consultants, for work in companies or ministries, NGOs, international organisations and other similar institutions.
Learning outcome for JUR1710 bachelor’s level: A general understanding is required
Knowledge
Students shall achieve a general understanding of the universal and regional procedures, mechanisms, and institutions involved in the monitoring of compliance of human rights including the UN human rights treaty- and Charter-based procedures and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as the regional human rights courts in the Americas and Africa. It entails a general understanding of international sources of human rights law, central concepts and principles, the roles of different actors, state obligations and key procedural rules of main international human rights conventions and institutions. Students’ general understanding of institutions and procedures should be informed by the practice and interpretation of international courts and other organs.
Skills
- Students will be able to understand which legal sources are important to use in an actual situation for knowing when determining which are the relevant institutions and procedures within the field of human rights.
- Students will be able to explain central concepts and principles of the procedures of human rights protection.
- This course will enable students to describe and critically compare the functions and the effects of central rules and principles, major institutions and procedures within field of human rights.
- This course will enable students to impart general knowledge about human rights procedures and institutions.
General competence
- Students will be able to provide informed statements on why States, and other actors, move from international commitment to human rights to domestic compliance.
- Students acquire skills that are relevant for future careers as lawyers or consultants, for work in companies or ministries, NGOs, international organisations and other similar institutions.