LL4AX Half Unit
Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Dr Margot Salomon
Availability
This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time), MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Law and Finance and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process.
How to apply: Priority will be given initially to LLM, MSc Regulation and MSc Law and Finance students on a first-come-first-served allocation.
Spaces permitting, requests from all other students will be processed on the same first-come-first-served allocation from 10am on Thursday 2 October 2025
By submitting an application, students are confirming that they meet any pre-requisites specified. Providing an additional written statement will not aid a student's chances of being accepted onto a course, and statements are not read.
Deadline for application: Not applicable
For queries contact: Law.llm@lse.ac.uk
Course content
This course explores international human rights law through a range of contemporary topics. We consider international human rights law and issues such as water, property, sexuality, and indigenous rights to land and resources. This course also investigates overarching tensions that help us situate human rights in wider socio-economic and political context. Here we tend to engage with human rights and resistance, the fragmentation of international law, and current developments at international human rights institutions. Through the study of relevant concepts, norms, processes and debates, students are encouraged to develop an informed and critical assessment of the significance of international human rights law as a force for emancipatory change.
Teaching
2 hours of seminars in the Spring Term.
20 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.
Formative assessment
One 2,000 word essay.
Indicative reading
O de Schutter, International Human Rights Law: Cases, Material and Commentary (CUP); P Mecklem, ‘Human Rights in International Law: Three Generations or One’? 3 London Review of International Law 1 (2015); C Clark, 'Of What Use is a Deradicalized Human Right to Water?' 17 Human Rights Law Review 2 ( 2017); W Schabas, 'The Omission of the Right to Property in the International Covenants' 4 Hague Yearbook of International Law (1991); J Kozma, M Nowak and M Scheinin, A World Court of Human Rights - Consolidated Draft Statute and Commentary (Neuer Wissenschaflicher Verlag, 2010)
Assessment
Exam (100%), duration: 150 Minutes in the Spring exam period
Key facts
Department: LSE Law School
Course Study Period: Winter and Spring Term
Unit value: Half unit
FHEQ Level: Level 7
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: 10
Average class size 2024/25: 10
Controlled access 2024/25: NoCourse selection videos
Some departments have produced short videos to introduce their courses. Please refer to the course selection videos index page for further information.
For this course, please see the following link/s:
LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law https://youtu.be/0wE455Nuolw
Personal development skills
- Communication
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