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LAW 542 International Human Rights Law

LAW 542  International Human Rights Law  Units: 3.00  

This course provides an overview of the international system for the protection of human rights. We will being with an introduction to human rights law and critiques of a human rights approach. We will learn about the main enforcement mechanisms, such as `treaty bodies', the Human Rights Council and regional courts. We will then explore current issues, which may include topics such as: discrimination against women, economic rights, torture, human rights and non-state actors (corporate responsibility), emergencies, human rights in armed conflict, human rights and international criminal justice. Through case studies, we also focus on the realities of human rights advocacy: challenging traditional approaches to human rights and alternative strategies for achieving accountability for human rights abuses.

Requirements: Upper Yr JD only  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Law  

Law

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The graduate law program at Queen’s University offers to students from Canada and from countries around the world an intellectually rich and challenging environment for legal learning and scholarship.  Queen’s offers two graduate degrees in law:

Law (LAW)

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LL.M. and Ph.D. students must enroll in  LAW 880  Legal Research Methods and Perspectives  and  LAW 881  Graduate Adv. Legal Research  in their first year of studies.