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JUS5910 - Women's Law and Human Rights

Facts about this course: Credits: 10 Level: Advanced course at master's level Teaching semester: Every spring semester Examination semester: Every spring semester Language of instruction: English Administrated by: The Faculty of Law

Detailed course information - Current and previous semesters: Spring 2012

Course content

This course presents the international legal framework for women's human rights with emphasis on basic principles such as equality and non-discrimination, freedom, integrity and dignity embedded in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The equality and non-discrimination principle is elaborated in the light of the CEDAW with reference to relevant provisions in the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Child Rights Convention, European Union Law and the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of African Women. The non-discrimination principle is substantiated through a focus on the right to work, the right to health, the right to protection against violence, the right to land and the right to water and sanitation. Rather than seeing women as a homogenous group the course explores the position of different groups of women in different legal, social and economic contexts in Scandinavian, African and Asian countries.
Cross-cutting core topics are:

• How equality and discrimination law responds to women’s lived realities is addressed with focus on women’s work in terms of formal employment and care for family members.
• The relationship between different human rights principles, such as gender equality, freedom of religion and protection of custom and culture.
• The indivisibility of human rights is addressed with focus on the relationship between the right to health, food, land and water.
• The relationship between human rights and legal pluralism is addressed through empirical studies of access to natural resources and access to law in African and Scandinavian countries.
• How international human rights law is translated into national and local law is deal with through case studies from African, Asian and Scandinavian countries.

Learning outcomes

See ‘Detailed course information’ regarding requirements and syllabus.

Admission

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams
they wish to sign up for by registering a study plan in StudentWeb.

You may register for this course if you have admission to a Master of Law-programme at UiO, the faculty's exchange-programme or have admission to Law-electives at masters-level. All applicants must fill the formal prerequisites.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisites

*ingen-fellestekst

• Admission to the faculty’s exchange-programme or
• Active study-right for a study programme, masters-level at the University of Oslo or
• Norwegian Masters of Laws degree or equivalent or
• Passed forth year, 96 – Cand. Jur programme (or exams that are equivalent) or
• Passed JUR3000, Masters of Laws programme at the University of Oslo (or exams that are equivalent).

Recommended prior knowledge

Three years of law studies.

Overlap

10 credits against JUR1910 - Women's Law and Human Rights (BA). 10 credits against VALWOMEN - Kvinnerett - internasjonal variant. 10 credits against JUXWOMEN - Kvinnerett - internasjonal variant. 10 credits against JUTWOMEN - Women´s Law and Human Rights. 10 credits against PILWOMEN - Women's Law and Human Rights. 10 credits against JUR5910 - Women's Law and Human Rights.

Teaching

Lectures/seminars.

Language of teaching for this course is English. This means that all
communication during lectures/seminars will be in English, and all
literature and auxiliary materials are in English.

Teaching takes place throughout the semester.

Exam information

4 hour written examination.

Exam resources

Auxiliary materials allowed during examinations for courses taught in English.

Recommended/Special Material

Language of examination

The language of examination for this course is English. This means
that the examination question will be given in English, and students
may answer in English only.

Assessment and grading

Course grades are awarded on a descending scale using alphabetic grades from A to E for passes and F for fail. Read more about the grading system .

Explanations and appeals

Students can request an explanation of their grades, and can also appeal against their grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals

Possibility of make-up exams and re-takes

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam .

Withdrawing from exams and limits on re-takes

A student can sit for this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do this in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit for the exam.
A study programme may have rules that further limit the number of times a student may re-take this exam. In such instances the rules of the study programme will have priority.

Exam options for students with special needs

Please se Detailed regulations for the Faculty of Law, Chapter 3 regarding application, responsibilities and special measures.

Students may apply for access to alternative exam resources or exam forms on the basis of chronic illness and/or special needs that create a marked disadvantage to other students in the exam situation. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Evaluation of this course

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. As a student at the University of Oslo you will therefore be asked to participate in various types of evaluation of our courses, facilities and services. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, in-depth evaluation of this course, a so called "periodic evaluation".

Other information

The language for this course is English. Students enrolled in the
Masterprogrammet i rettsvitenskap must pass one
English subject as part of their degree, this course will meet these
obligations.

This subject is taught at Master 's level. The subject is also taught at Bachelor's level (15 ECTS credits), see JUR1910 - Women's Law and Human Rights (BA). Please see the chapter above, regarding overlap. For instances of overlap, credits will be deducted on the subject at Bachelors's level.

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