Professor Conor Gearty, NAB, 7.11

For LLM students and MSc Human Rights; other Master's level students with permission. It is not possible to take this course along with LL4B6.

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

This course will be made up of a detailed study of the UK Human Rights Act. The origins and the political background to the Act will be explained, and the structure of the measure will be fully elaborated, relying on the text of the Act itself but also on the burgeoning case law that accompanies the measure. The course will identify the principles that underpin the Act and explain its proper place in English law. It will also explore the wider constitutional implications of the measure, looking at its effect on the relationship between courts and Parliament. The course complements Human Rights Law: the European Convention on Human Rights (LL468) but can be taken separately from it.

13 two-hour seminars in the LT and ST of each academic year.

Students are asked to submit one 2,000 word essay.

Kavanagh, Constitutional Review under the UK Human Rights Act (Cambridge, 2009); Hickman, Public Law After the Human Rights Act (Hart, 2010); Gearty, Principles of Human Rights Adjudication (Oxford University Press, 2004). While these books will be referred to, students will also be expected to read cases: they will receive a detailed Reading list for each topic.

 

This subject is examined by one two-hour paper, composed of at least five questions of which two must be attempted.