Middlesex University – School of Law Academic Year 2016/2017

LAW 2464 / 2465 – UK AND EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Coursework 1: Literature review

January 2017

The Literature Review accounts for 25% of the final mark.
Your answer must not exceed 2,000 words. The bibliography is part of the assessment but is not included in the word count.
Your work must be submitted on line (Turnitin submission via myUniHub) by 4 p.m. on Thursday 12 January 2017. Please ensure that you keep your electronic receipt.
You must provide a full bibliography and references; please follow the Guide to Citation and Referencing included in your handbooks. Please note that marks will be deducted for poor referencing.
The assessment criteria and procedures in relation to academic misconduct (plagiarism and collusion) are detailed in your handbook.

Topics

Please select one of the three topics below:

1. Case law of the European Court of Human Rights on trafficking in human beings.

2. Case law of the European Court of Human Rights on gender identity issues.

3. The Human Rights Act 1998 and the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty.

Literature review: the exercise

Your answers should demonstrate you are able to identify and comment upon leading case law, seminal legislation and secondary sources in relation to the topic you have chosen.

You are expected to identify, as appropriate to your chosen topic:
a) the key legal cases that are germane to the selected issue; and
b) literature that you believe to be seminal to an understanding of the topic.

The breadth of your research is clearly a key ingredient of the assessment. The sources identified and relied on should therefore be listed in the bibliography, which will not be part of the word count but is part of the assessment.

Among the sources identified, you must select between 4 and 6 sources you consider to be especially important and authoritative in understanding the topic selected.