Rules in Human Rights Law (MASSOLIT video lecture, Prof. Conor Gearty, LSE)
MASSOLIT (London School of Economics)
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Curious how human rights law shapes modern Europe? Join Prof Conor Gearty's MASSOLIT lecture to explore post-war origins, the ECHR and Court in action, build analytical skills and boost your uni applications and critical thinking.
This is a curriculum-linked video lecture from the MASSOLIT course "Rules of Human Rights Law", presented by Professor Conor Gearty of the London School of Economics. The module and course examine the development and legal structure of human rights law, placing the emergence of rights in the post-war context and explaining how the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights operate.
The course covers major theories and philosophical traditions behind human-rights values, contrasts rights with the English legal tradition of liberties, and discusses developments in UK law culminating in the Human Rights Act 1998. Later modules examine common laws relationship with human rights and the evolving nature of judicial power and democracy in this area.
The lectures are produced by MASSOLIT for secondary-level curricula and are explicitly linked to GCSE, A Level and IB study. The resource is delivered as on-demand video content suitable for students and teachers wishing to supplement classroom study of human-rights and constitutional topics.
Prof. Conor Gearty
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