LAW5345 · Business and human rights

Overview

This unit focuses on the impact upon human rights of business activities, particularly those of multinational enterprises, and accountability mechanisms for those impacts in international, transnational and domestic law. This topic is one of the most dynamic within the field of human rights, especially since the enactment of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011. It is widely recognised that businesses cannot ignore the human rights impacts of their operations.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Apply knowledge of the human rights impacts of businesses to propose new approaches for addressing human rights concerns
2. Identify, investigate and explain a contemporary case involving the real life practice of business and human rights
3. Conduct investigative research, analysis and synthesis of human rights concepts as applied to business practices using appropriate research principles and methods
4. Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate, articulate and evaluate complex ideas and concepts relevant to business and human rights

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit typically comprises of a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study applicable to a 6 credit point unit. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning, and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.