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Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law 636

Overview

The human rights law program offers the widest range of human rights subjects in Australia. Many world-renowned experts teach in the program, offering students exciting opportunities to examine a range of human rights instruments, institutions, theories and practices in contemporary context. The program, a graduate diploma, is particularly relevant to lawyers currently working, or hoping to work, in the field of human rights, as well as those with a non-law background working in development agencies and other human-rights-related organisations in Australia and around the world.

Objectives and Skills

The Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law focuses on:

  • Human rights theories, as well as the processes and actors involved in the field of human rights
  • The jurisprudence relating to the full range of human rights
  • Assessing the effectiveness of different mechanisms for implementing or enforcing human rights
  • Interpreting and comparing human rights law texts, including treaties, jurisprudence of treaty bodies and domestic courts, and academic scholarship
  • The articulation of knowledge and understanding in oral and written presentations.
Requirements

Students must complete four subjects from the prescribed list.

Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction or any prior legal studies or experience are also expected to complete the two-day preliminary subject Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions.


Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law 636

# Offered in 2012

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Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law 636