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06a6acf3-73c3-4ed3-9f03-6e1dafb7e2cb

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HUMAN RIGHTS: LAW, POLITICS, HISTORY
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
109
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
HUMAN RIGHTS: LAW, POLITICS, HISTORY
UCEAP Transcript Title
HUMAN RIGHTS
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

In this course, the topic of human rights is explored from a legal perspective, but with a view to discussing the salience of current political debates about human rights and against the background of the historical development of this field of international law.

Topics include

  • Basic features of the protection of human rights in the international legal system I: Historical development and UN level
  • Basic features of the protection of human rights in the international legal system II: The European regional level
  • Critical perspectives on human rights
  • Extraterritorial application of human rights
  • Climate change litigation before human rights courts and treaty bodies
  • Human rights in the digital sphere
  • Decolonization and human rights
  • Indigenous peoples and human rights
  • Human rights in the urban age: The role of cities and local governments
  • The Relevance of the African Human Rights System in the Urban Age
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
96772
Host Institution Course Title
HUMAN RIGHTS: LAW, POLITICS, HISTORY
Host Institution Campus
Free University of Berlin
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Rechtswissenschaft

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ELECTORAL LAW
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
139
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
ELECTORAL LAW
UCEAP Transcript Title
ELECTORAL LAW
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course explores the essential elements of electoral law that regulates the election of government officials. It analyzes the Mexican electoral system including electoral zones, registration procedures, state financing, voter registration, candidacies, political parties, propaganda, vote counting, and electoral observation.

Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
0414
Host Institution Course Title
DERECHO ELECTORAL
Host Institution Campus
CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA
Host Institution Faculty
FACULTAD DE DERECHO
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department

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INTERNATIONAL LAW
Country
Japan
Host Institution
Hitotsubashi University
Program(s)
Hitotsubashi University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
101
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
INTERNATIONAL LAW
UCEAP Transcript Title
INTERNATIONAL LAW
UCEAP Quarter Units
3.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.00
Course Description

This course provides an overview of the basics of international law, including its history and legal sources. The course examines issues and disputes between nations through the basic structure and perspective of international law.

Language(s) of Instruction
Japanese
Host Institution Course Number
JU-D201-A-00
Host Institution Course Title
GENERAL COURSE ON INTERNATIONAL LAW I
Host Institution Campus
Hitotsubashi University
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Law

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THE LAW & POLITICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Country
France
Host Institution
Sciences Po Reims
Program(s)
Sciences Po Reims
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
154
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
THE LAW & POLITICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
UCEAP Transcript Title
LAW&POLIT SOC MEDIA
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course introduces the legal, regulatory, and policy issues raised by social media platforms. It provides an accessible overview of current legal issues relating to social media, with a focus on European law. The first half of the course examines how platforms and states govern online content. The second half broadens the focus to the legal and political issues raised by social media platforms' business models and ownership structures. The assigned readings and lectures provide a thorough overview of the core issues and encourage critical thinking about the underlying power structures and conflicts of interests that shape legal decisions.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
DDRO 27A29
Host Institution Course Title
THE LAW & POLITICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Seminar
Host Institution Department
Law

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LAW, INTERNET, AND TECHNOLOGY
Country
Germany
Host Institution
Free University of Berlin
Program(s)
Free University Berlin
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
111
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LAW, INTERNET, AND TECHNOLOGY
UCEAP Transcript Title
LAW INTERNET & TECH
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description

This course explores the laws governing and/or related to the Internet and various forms of technology and spans numerous interrelated topics such as free speech, privacy, reproductive technologies and other medical and technological “wonders.” While the course draws extensively upon Anglo-American scholarship, legal texts, and case studies, it also introduces different philosophical foundations of free speech and other relevant concepts as various as privacy, property, and personhood, with the goal of providing conceptual tools for students to examine the laws and case studies in their home jurisdictions.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
96931
Host Institution Course Title
LAW, INTERNET, AND TECHNOLOGY
Host Institution Campus
Free University Berlin
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Rechtswissenschaft

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SUPREME COURT OF JAPAN
Country
Japan
Host Institution
Keio University
Program(s)
Keio University
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
111
UCEAP Course Suffix
W
UCEAP Official Title
SUPREME COURT OF JAPAN
UCEAP Transcript Title
SUPREME COURT/JAPAN
UCEAP Quarter Units
3.00
UCEAP Semester Units
2.00
Course Description

This course focuses on the Supreme Court of Japan. The first part of the course presents the origin, structure, and functions of the Supreme Court. The second part of the course presents the role it plays in the Japanese legal system and provides an overview of the most important cases and decisions it has made. Depending on participants' interests and on the circumstances related to the Covid-19 pandemic, a class might consist of a field trip to the Supreme Court of Japan.

Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
N/A
Host Institution Course Title
THE SUPREME COURT OF JAPAN: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, CASE LAW
Host Institution Campus
Keio University
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
International Center

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LAW, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY
Country
Netherlands
Host Institution
Leiden University College
Program(s)
Leiden University College
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Sociology Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
106
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
LAW, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY
UCEAP Transcript Title
LAW CULTR & SOCIETY
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description
This course starts with two fundamental questions in socio-legal studies. How do laws and legal institutions affect society and social behavior? And conversely, how does society affect the production of laws and the functioning of legal institutions? Socio-legal scholarship has used different perspectives in answering these questions, including a cultural perspective. The course focuses on that perspective, and zooms in on a quite topical issue: the increasingly multicultural or ethnically diverse nature of society. It explores how that characteristic influences the emergence and functioning of laws and legal institutions. It also examines how different ethnic or religious groups, often confronted with a situation of legal pluralism, deal with laws and legal institutions. The course considers if law should merely reflect a society, or whether it also has a function to change society in a certain direction. If law does not reflect the whole of society, what implications does this have for minority groups? These questions are relevant to societies both in the Global North and the Global South. Accordingly, the course draws on and discusses cases from both regions.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
2902IJ25Y
Host Institution Course Title
LAW, CULTURE & SOCIETY
Host Institution Campus
Leiden University College, The Hague
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
International Justice

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POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
Country
France
Host Institution
Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)
Program(s)
Sciences Po Paris
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
100
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
UCEAP Transcript Title
POL INSTITUTIONS
UCEAP Quarter Units
6.00
UCEAP Semester Units
4.00
Course Description

In examining how contemporary political power is organized, notably through constitutions, this course presents a view of issues past and present, legal and political, French or foreign, national and international.  It also offers several keys so that students can orient themselves among the facts, the information, and the documentary sources.  Students are given a certain amount of information but also encouraged to build intellectual and practical skills to bring out their critical thinking abilities, their ability to hold a rational argument, and stimulate their creative intellectualism.  The themes examined in the course include: defining a certain number of fundamental notions related to the analysis of constitutional law and the political institutions; examining several examples of foreign political institutions; and understanding the trajectory, the situation, and the characteristics of today’s French institutions.  Through case studies and applied examples, each course meeting is an opportunity to enrich the methodology required to examine these issues.

Language(s) of Instruction
French
Host Institution Course Number
ADRO 15F00
Host Institution Course Title
INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES
Host Institution Campus
Paris
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Law

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Country
Mexico
Host Institution
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Program(s)
National Autonomous University of Mexico
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Legal Studies Environmental Studies
UCEAP Course Number
115
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
UCEAP Transcript Title
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
This course examines international laws and international organizations that focus on the protection, conservation and preservation of the environment, placing emphasis on environmental law as it exists in Mexico.
Language(s) of Instruction
Spanish
Host Institution Course Number
1052
Host Institution Course Title
DERECHO AMBIENTAL
Host Institution Campus
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
Facultad de Derecho

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ANALYZING PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND LAW
Country
France
Host Institution
Sciences Po Reims
Program(s)
Sciences Po Reims
UCEAP Course Level
Upper Division
UCEAP Subject Area(s)
Political Science Legal Studies
UCEAP Course Number
112
UCEAP Course Suffix
UCEAP Official Title
ANALYZING PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND LAW
UCEAP Transcript Title
PUBLIC HEALTH POLCY
UCEAP Quarter Units
4.50
UCEAP Semester Units
3.00
Course Description
The provides an introductory overview of public health issues from both legal and policy perspectives. The interdisciplinary approach offers students a foundational understanding on the intersectionality involved in public health by investigating the power and motivation behind the governance of healthcare through legislative action and judicial decisions. The course begins with an introduction to the key institutions and players that manage and regulate public health. The course then transitions to understanding the types of texts that offer authority in healthcare. Students are asked to explore a variety of policy papers, legislative drafts, information notes as well as relevant case law (in several jurisdictions) that together govern the behavior and outcomes of both scientific and healthcare communities, policy and lawmakers, and undoubtedly the everyday human. The course provides students starter tools in policy analysis and engagement with legal texts. Students are expected to have completed all assigned readings to ensure fruitful discussion an interactive experience participating in the in-class activities.
Language(s) of Instruction
English
Host Institution Course Number
59494
Host Institution Course Title
ANALYZING PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND LAW
Host Institution Campus
Seminar
Host Institution Faculty
Host Institution Degree
Host Institution Department
International Affairs & Strategy
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