Ths student should aquire the following knowledge skills and competences from completing this course:
Knowlege:
- Familiarity with existing scholarly literature in the field of law and society research, and debates related to key concepts such as lawfare; legal mobilization; legal engineering; compliance; constitutionalism; accountability; social transformation
- Knowledge about central empirical literatures on lawfare processes in Europe; the Americas; Africa and Asia
- Understanding of diverse methodological approaches towards researching effects of lawfare.
Skills:
- The ability to complete written essays and make oral presentations which demonstrate skills in analyzing and critically evaluating the theoretical and empirical literature examined
- The ability to design an independent research project in political science
- Demonstrate skills in assessing strengths and weaknesses in established approaches towards establishing effects of lawfare, applied to empirical contexts.
General competence:
- Enhanced analytical and critical skills in applied research;
- Familiarity with key contributions in the scholarly literature on law and society generally. and specifically on lawfare and its effects.