The Fundamentals of International Human Rights Law (online)

This online course aims to develop the understanding of the theory and doctrine of international human rights law along with a concern for its application and realisation in practice. The...

Business and Human Rights

The course begins with a review of the international debate on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and traces the emergence, within the United Nations, of a new framework...

International Rights of Children

The first week of the course will be devoted to a general introduction to the instruments and mechanisms that frame and enforce the rights of children in international human rights...

International Criminal Law

The course starts by retracing the modern bases of international humanitarian law as in The Fourth Hague Convention of 1907. Thereafter, review of the attempt to create an international tribunal...

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

This course has as its focal point economic, social and cultural rights (“ESCRs”) but these are viewed within a wider context, particularly of poverty, at both the global and local...

Domesticating International Human Rights Law

International human rights law norms and mechanisms are predicated on the idea that they will bring about sustainable change at home, at the national level. The international mechanisms for the...

Human Rights and Environmental Law

The course begins with an introduction to the architecture of international environmental law. In the first three sessions, participants will explore the major types of international environmental problems and the...

International Humanitarian Law

This course is designed to provide candidates with a comprehensive introduction to the regulation of international and non-international armed conflicts within international law (otherwise known as the jus in bello,...

Right to Life

This seminar will explore the nature and extent of the right to life, often described as the supreme or foundational right, highlighting the breath of issues included in or derived...

Racial Discrimination, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

The interconnected topics of racial discrimination, minorities, and indigenous peoples count among the most dynamic areas of contemporary human rights law. They are also complex and challenging in that they...

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Human Rights

Refugees have a specific status under international law granting them international protection. The global framework of international human rights and refugee law therefore has practical significance for this at risk...

Comparative Regional Human Rights Systems

The seminar examines an aspect of the implementation and development of human rights law, namely the role of regional human rights systems in the protection of human rights. The course...

Freedom of Religion or Belief

Freedom of religion or belief has been described as one of the most controversial rights whose enjoyment is affected by contestation of its normative framework in theory and practice. Such...

Theory and Critique of International Human Rights Law

This course is concerned with the theoretical foundations of the field of international human rights law. In particular, its purpose is to explore the diversity of range of theoretical and...

Transitional Justice

This course seeks to introduce students to the most recent developments in state and societal practice and contemporary debates that have emerged from the field of transitional justice, i.e., the...

International Rights of Women and Gender-Related Discrimination

The course has twelve sessions and is divided into four sections. The first section explores the theoretical assumptions that underpin women’s international human rights. It will focus on feminist theories...

Dissertation - International Human Rights Law (residential and online)

You will write a dissertation of not more than 12,000 words. Most of the research and writing for the dissertation you will do from home, using the extensive on-line resources...