International Children’s Rights Law - BML0125

Assessment 1: Other

Formative assessment encapsulates a wide range of activities that vary from module to module and students will be given formative feedback on this module as part of the learning journey. 

Other

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment
The individual assignment will consist of a written exercise which may be an essay, topic briefing, report writing, reflective learning journal, article critique, case note, statutory interpretation, or judgement. 

Written Assignment

Based on the near universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, international children’s rights law has changed the landscape globally as regards the position of children in society and in the family. A growing scholarship on diverse areas of specialisation within the broad remit of children’s rights now exists, in fields as specialised as juvenile justice, child protection, children’s rights in the digital era, and children’s rights and climate change. The field intersects with international criminal law (children as victims and offenders at the ICC), humanitarian law (children and migration), and the International Labour system (child labour and business principles and children’s rights). There is hence considerable scope for developing a module with substantial international focus on these themes.

Huddersfield Business School

https://library.hud.ac.uk/readinglists/BML0125

Essential
Ton Liefaard and Ursula Kilkelly (2018) The International Human Rights of Children (Springer, Singapore)
Recommended
Wouter Vandenhole and Gamza Erdem Turkelli (2019) A commentary on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Edward Elgar)
Background
John Tobin (ed) (2019) The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
A Commentary (Oxford University Press)

BML0125 - International Children’s Rights Law

International Children’s Rights Law

Demonstrate an independent learning ability for continuing professional development and competency in initiative-taking, personal responsibility, and decision-making. 

Appraise current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline, critically evaluate approaches and arguments and develop critiques of them and where appropriate, propose new hypothesis.

Demonstrate a systematic understanding of core legal theory relating to International Children’s Rights Law.

Recognise and debate current problems and new insights in the field. 

Apply learned knowledge within academic and/or professional contexts, make sound judgements in the absence of complete data and communicate their conclusions clearly to a specialist and/or non-specialist audience.