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LAWS3318 International Humanitarian and Refugee Law
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The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
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| Credit: 6 points Availability: Semester 2 Old unit code: 200.318
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| Outcomes: Students gain (1) a sound knowledge and understanding of the history and development of Geneva and Hague Law; (2) an understanding of the basic legal concepts and norms of armed conflict; (3) a sound knowledge and understanding of international refugee law; and (4) an appreciation of how these branches of international law can be better respected and enforced. |
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Content: This unit examines the interrelationship and operation of the rapidly evolving rules of international human rights law, the law of armed conflicts and the international law relating to the protection of refugees.
Topics include the following:
Laws relating to armed conflicts—the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their historical antecedents; the role of the Red Cross; the protecting power system; extension of the scope of humanitarian law to internal conflicts and guerrilla warfare; the two 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions; protection of civilians and POWs; combatant rules; the Hague Law; methods and means of warfare; laws concerning the manufacture, stockpiling and employment of conventional, chemical, bacteriological and biological weapons and land mines; enforcement problems; war crimes; relationship to international human rights law and municipal law.
Laws protecting refugees—the history of refugee law; the growing problem and causes of mass population movements; problems of definition/eligibility; Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951; Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees 1966; asylum; expulsion; the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; repatriation versus resettlement; internally displaced persons; the child refugee; the burden-sharing principle; comparative approaches; adherence to international standards; prospects for reform. |
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Assessment: Students are required to submit a research assignment, give a seminar presentation, regularly attend seminars and undertake an end-of-semester in-class test.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
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| Unit Co-ordinator(s): Emily Camins |
| Location: UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode: on-campus |
Unit Rules: |
| Prerequisites: LAWS1130 Legal Process |
| Advisable prior study: LAWS3354 Public International Law |
Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week
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Unit Web Page: http://www.uwa.edu.au/page/131001 |
| Note: Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2009. |
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Recommended Reading
A detailed bibliography incorporated within the unit outline is distributed to students during the first week of classes. |
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Assistance with study skills, including English language skills,
is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students
(see http://www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au/).
Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423. |
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Books and other material wherever listed may be subject to change.
Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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