DDRO 27A16 - Human Rights Law

• The course offers an in-depth understanding of how Human rights came to existence, how they are protected on the Internal, regional and international planes.
• It explains how those level of protection interacts with one another whether as complementary or concurrent mechanisms.
• The aim of the course is both to learn how the rules and mechanisms aimed at protecting Human rights function as well as to acquire the capacity to apply them to particular cases in your future careers.
• Issues such as the birth, evolution but also political critics of Human rights as well as their main threats will be studied. The flaws in human rights’ protection will be discussed.
• The breakthrough of International criminal law and criminal justice will be tackled. The current flaws of International criminal law will be described, possible improvements envisioned.

OBJECTIVES

• The main objective of this course is to enable you to fully understand whether and how can one secure effective protection of his/her Human rights, depending on their specific situation. In particular, the course is designed to show the students the methods of control used by top courts in day-to-day protection of Human rights.
• A practical approach will be valued.
• A moot court based on a real case of either the ECHR, or ICJ will be scheduled on week 12.

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