This subject constitutes the student's first step in research. It allows them to culminate their research training and to confront their Master Thesis. 1. Basic skills: - Apply the knowledge gained and the ability to confront new problems in contexts related to this field of study. - Integrate knowledge and face complexity to formulate assessments form limited information - Communicate conclusions and the reasons that justify them to skilled and non skilled audiences. - Incorporate learning skills to continue the process of learning in an autonomous way. 2. General skills - Use of specialized techniques to handle legal and doctrinal instruments to solve theoretical and practical issues. - Ability to look for, process and analyze relevant information form different sources - Ability to learn, actualize and complete knowledge - Dominate methods and techniques of legal research - Adaptation to new situations with continuous and autonomous learning. - Ability to apply mechanisms to deal with complex legal and social issues related to human rights form a multidisciplinary approach. - Acquisition of attitudes of permanent inquiry, leading to identify and use relevant specialized sources of information. 3. Specific skills - Identify and analyze the economic and social implications in the development of rights and liberties. - Organize and plan the stages of an investigation on human rights in a coherent way. - Justify alternative developments in the theory of human rights

The student has to write a research paper on a human rights subject. The subjects are defined in a way that covers the different aspects in which human rights have been studied.

The research paper is developed under the supervision of a tutor, who has also to asses the final version. The student will use the skills, methods and knowdledge adquired.