Access to Justice for Vulnerable Groups

About

The course focuses on understanding SDG 16, and the role of access to justice to enhance SDGs. The course explains the concept, the connection to other SDGs, and the advances made in the national agendas. Later, the course provides a socio-legal approach to explain how access to justice was incorporated into international and national law, especially to secure access to justice for all. Then the course focuses on the current empirical evidence on how different groups experience their right to access to justice. At this stage, the course also includes a session on the type of methods that have been used to understand the relation between access to justice and vulnerable groups. The course will be composed of five, two-hour on-campus interactive lectures.

Target group

This course is suited for students enrolled in a Bachelor or masters Programme with an introduction to law.

Course aim

• Understand the role of access to justice within the SDGs;
• Understand and judge how access to justice for vulnerable groups has been incorporated in international law;
• Understand and judge how access to justice for vulnerable groups has been incorporated in domestic law;
• Distinguish the different methodologies that have been used to understand the relation between access to justice and vulnerable groups.

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