Non-credit course over six evenings in Michaelmas Term 2017 and Hilary Term 2018

Open to law students (both undergraduate and graduate) and students at the Blavatnik School of Government

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxfam and the Oxford Human Rights Hub will be offering a non-credit course in developing strategies for the protection and promotion of human rights in Michaelmas Term 2017 and Hilary Term 2018.  The object of the course is to introduce students to strategic analysis relating to human rights and to promote academic scholarship in the field of human rights informed by current practical human rights problems.  The course is open to law students in the Faculty of Law and students at the Blavatnik School of Government.  A limited number of places is available.

The seminars will cover the following topics:

• Litigating the right to education
• The challenges facing undocumented refugee children in the UK
• Death penalty and lethal injection
• Business and Human Rights: Tort liability of large corporations
• Climate Change and Environmental litigation

Each seminar will be led by a leading lawyer or human rights policy practitioner. Seminars will involve presentations on specific strategic responses to human rights problems that have been implemented, as well as small group sessions to discuss and develop other strategic responses. Seminars will be held on Tuesday evenings each term in weeks 2, 5 and 7 in Michaelmas Term and weeks 3, 5 and 7 in Trinity Term from 6.15pm – 8.15pm. There will be no formal mode of assessment but students who are admitted to the course will be expected to attend every seminar.

Seminars will be hosted at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Mansfield College. Seminars will be preceded by a public talk by visitors who will conduct the seminars from 5 – 6pm.  The seminars will also be covered by blogposts on the Oxford Human Rights Hub website.

Applications should be sent to the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at bonaveroihr@law.ox.ac.uk  Closing date for applications is Wednesday 4th October 2017 at 12 noon.  Applicants are requested to provide a curriculum vitae as well as a brief statement as to why they wish to undertake the course.