Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to
• explain the implications of the dual nature of human rights as moral and legal rights
• identify the strengths and weaknesses of different conceptual theories of rights
• identify the strengths and weaknesses of different justifications of human rights
• develop informed arguments for taking one or another particular position on controversial human rights issues
Indicative Module Content:
Philosophical rights theory
Analysing human rights from a conceptual perspective.
Discussing the morality of human rights and democracy.
The morality of a politics of human rights.