78151 Human Rights Law

Description

International human rights law is a body of law with important substantive and procedural aspects in its application. As a body of law that is designed to oversee the treatment of individuals and groups by the state machinery, it has significant implications for all countries and calls for a systematic, scholarly analysis to ensure its proper understanding and practice. As a discipline, international human rights law is relevant not only to societies with oppressive regimes but also to those with more sophisticated, democratic institutions. International human rights norms impose obligations on the state by ensuring that it is accountable internationally for the treatment of persons both at the hands of government institutions and officials, and through the acts of other private persons. The aim of this subject is to provide students with knowledge of, and interpretive skills in, international and regional human rights law by examining the concept and history of human rights, the supra-national institutions and mechanisms concerned with the promotion and protection of human rights, the substantive legal principles governing the interpretation and application of international and regional human rights laws, and the issues associated with their implementation in the domestic sphere.