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International Human Rights Law and Practice |
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Short courses |
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| Frequency |
Annual |
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| Start date |
12/10/2015 |
| End date |
14/12/2015 |
| Objectives |
International human rights law is a subject that barely featured on university curricula just a few years ago, and it remains hard to find guidance on the subject that is easily accessible, clear, authoritative and up-to-date. No other course in the UK offers the range of expertise and depth of understanding of human rights law that will be available on this programme. The course will provide an indispensable guide to this burgeoning field of law. A certificate of attendance from the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE will be awarded to those who have successfully completed the course. |
| Area of expertise |
human rights
international law |
| Target group |
Government officials
Judges
Lawyers
NGO activists |
| Content |
The history and philosophy of human rights and the relationship between human rights and a democratic society
¦ The international institutional framework for promoting and protecting human rights and how human rights work
¦ Regional mechanisms for protecting and promoting human rights
¦ Economic, social and cultural rights and how they are enforced
¦ Civil and political rights and how they are enforced
¦ Human rights as democratic values: participatory rights in practice
¦ Equality and minority rights: the enforcement of protection from discrimination
¦ People's rights: indigenous people, the right to self-determination and third generation rights
¦ International criminal law: combating impunity
¦ Rights in the private sphere: non-state actors, paramilitary organisations, regulating business and other private relationships |
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English |
| Country |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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London |
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Dr Chaloka Beyani, Senior Lecturer in Law at LSE and UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons.
¦ Iain Byrne, Senior Lawyer for Economic and Social Rights at Interights and Fellowat Essex University's Human Rights Centre.
¦Professor Christine Chinkin FBA, Professor of International Law at LSE, and a member of Matrix Chambers.
¦Professor Andrew Clapham, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies Institute and former Representative of Amnesty International to the United Nations in New York.
¦Jo Cooper, Higher Court advocate with experience of a full range of criminal, terrorism, and war crimes (ICTY) cases. Head of Perren Buildings and chair of the Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates.
¦ Jane Gordon, Human rights barrister, LSE Visiting Fellow and Senior lawyer at the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre
¦Richard Hermer QC, leading practictioner in human rights, public international law, actions against the police and personal injury. Member of Doughty Street Chambers.
¦Professor Francesca Klug OBE, director of the Human Rights Futures Programme at LSE.
¦ Professor Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights, a solicitor, and Director of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (both based at London Metropolitan University).
¦ Professor Aileen McColgan, Professor of Human Rights Law at Kings College London, member of Matrix Chambers and the British expert on the EU Commission's network of gender equality legal experts. |
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| Application procedure |
Apply online : http://eshop.lse.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=29&prodid=199 |
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| Scholarship |
The Centre is able to offer up to five subsidised places, at £985, in support of those who would otherwise be unable to take the course. |
| Tuition/Accommodation |
The standard course fee is £1,970. |
| Homepage |
www.lse.ac.uk/humanRights/teaching/certificate.aspx |
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