Not available in 2014/15
LL4BZ Half Unit
International Human Rights of Women: Advanced Issues
This information is for the 2014/15 session.
Teacher responsible
Prof Christine Chinkin NAB 6.15 and Miss Jane Gordon
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Human Rights and Master of Laws. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
This course will be relevant to the following LLM specialisms: Human Rights; Public International Law.
This course is capped at 30 students.
Pre-requisites
All students must have taken the course An Introduction to the International Human Rights of Women, which is a pre-requisite for this course
Course content
The course builds upon the concepts and ideas introduced in An Introduction to the International Human Rights of Women. It explores some particular areas where women's human rights have been contested and where more advanced legal frameworks have been developed.
Topics include:
Economic, social and cultural rights revisited
The right to education
The right to health and reproductive rights
Combating trafficking in women and girls
Violence against women in armed conflict
Peace processes and women's rights post-conflict
Political participation
The rights of the girl child
Non-state actors and women's human rights
Critiques and Strategies for Change
Teaching
20 hours of seminars in the LT.
Student participation will be expected. Students are also encouraged to draw upon and share relevant experiences.
Formative coursework
All students are expected to produce one 2,000 word formative essay during the course.
Indicative reading
M. Freeman, C. Chinkin and B. Rudolf, The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women A Commentary (Oxford, OUP, 2012)
H. Charlesworth and C. Chinkin, The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis (Manchester University Press, 2000), especially chapter 7.
H. Schopp-Schilling (ed), Circle of Empowerment (2007)
F. Banda, Women, Law and Human Rights An African Perspective (Hart, 2005)
Karen Knop (ed.), Gender and Human Rights (OUP, 2004)
D. Buss and A. Manji (eds), International Law Modern Feminist Approaches (Hart Publishing, 2005)
R. Cook (ed.), Human Rights of Women. National and International Perspectives (University of Pennsylvania Press 1994)
A. Edwards, Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law (2011)
Catharine McKinnon, Are Women Human? (2006)
Assessment
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Key facts
Department: Law
Total students 2013/14: Unavailable
Average class size 2013/14: Unavailable
Controlled access 2013/14: No
Lecture capture used 2013/14: No
Value: Half Unit