Component

MA Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
Integrated Master in Law: Law options

Final Year, Component 02

LW902-7-AU or LW663-7-AU or LW924-7-AU
LW663-7-AU
Contemporary Issues in Commercial and Business Law
(15 CREDITS)

This module aims to apply the comparative and case study methodologies to examine the national and global legal, philosophical, historical and socio-political contexts of business law and commercial relationships and transactions.

LW902-7-AU
Public International Law
(15 CREDITS)

What does it mean to be an international lawyer? Understand the founding principles of international law. Apply the tools and techniques of legal reasoning to the international legal system. Understand how the system of international law works and form your own views through discussions of contemporary issues.

LW924-7-AU
International Human Rights: Theories and Institutions
(15 CREDITS)

The module starts by providing students with an overview of human rights and human rights law. It then introduces students to a range of critical approaches to human rights law, including feminist, TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law), postcolonial, and queer approaches. Next, the module looks at the range of international and regional institutions for enforcing human rights, before turning to domestic enforcement. The module ensures students on the International Human Rights LLMs have a firm grounding in theoretical approaches to international human rights law, as well as the core institutions for human rights protection.

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