LAW8214 - Organization, Functioning, and Jurisdiction of Courts

The course of Organization, Functioning, and Jurisdiction of Courts describes the structure of the judicial system  in Rwanda, its historical evolution, the competence of courts, the court personnel and its appointment 

LEGAL RESEARCH

The present course on Legal Research Methods intends:

to acquaint the students of law with scientific methods of inquiry into law.
to make them familiar with nature, scope, and significance of addition,
to make them aware of role of legal research in the development of law and legal institutions
 
With these objectives, the course addresses to sources,categories and types of legal research.
§It focuses on legal research methods and tools.
§ It highlights different dimensions and tools of doctrinal legal research as well as non-doctrinal legal research or socio-legal research.
§ In other words, the course strives to instill in the law students basic skill of identifying research problems, planning and executing legal research projects and of appreciating the problems associated therewith.
§ It aims at instilling in them basic research skills so that they can plan and pursue legal and socio- legal research in future.
 

International Human Rihts Law

The course provides the basic human rights philosophy, principles, instruments and institutions, and also an overview of current issues and debates in the field

This course aims to explore some aspects of the diverse and increasingly complex body of international law of human rights that has both national and international application.

The course also seeks to analyze the ways in which allegations of human rights violations are dealt with

Ø  understand the key historical, political, legal and moral influences that have shaped the idea of "human rights" and be able to explain the concept of a right, and to analyze the contemporary challenges and trends in human rights theory and practice, and to understand the general affinities and divergences in sources, substance and application of rights in international, regional, constitutional and domestic contexts;

Ø  identify the major international declarations, treaties, and covenants governing human rights, and identify mechanisms for monitoring and enforcing human rights standards, they should also have a strong working knowledge of the major human rights conventions, processes and techniques and be able to identify and use the human rights instruments Rwanda is a party to and apply those mechanisms in concrete situations;

Ø  know how to research, and where to find, human rights materials and relevant  issues that will be necessary to future work in the field, and how to construct and advocate effective legal and policy arguments using international human rights norms and discourse;

international criminal law

International criminal law is a body of international law (Classical" international law governs the relationships, rights, and responsibilities of states) designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration.