Posted by The Law School
8 July 2026The University of Exeter Law School is proud to share that expert input produced by Dr Louise Loder and Professor Greta Bosch has been published on the website of the UN OHCHR, by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education Farida Shaheed. The submission was written in response to a call by the Special Rapporteur for the ‘Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment as Elements of the Right to Education’ report, which Ms Shaheed delivered to the Human Rights Council at its 62nd session in June 2026.
The Special Rapporteur’s report addresses curriculum, pedagogy and assessment as elements of the right to education. It analyses how curriculum content, pedagogical practices and assessment models can be aligned with each other and with the aims of education, and equip learners with the skills, values and resilience needed to address and navigate evolving realities. It also examines the political economy of curriculum design, the roles of teachers, students and parents in decision-making and the interactions between global frameworks and local cultural knowledge, in an overall human rights-based approach to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
The call for input for the report attracted more than 150 submissions from States, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations, educators, youth and communities across diverse contexts. Dr Loder and Professor Bosch’s submission was based on the literature review component of their year-long Great Law Teachers Project, for which they have researched teaching excellence in the UK university law school. In their submission to the Special Rapporteur, Dr Loder and Professor Bosch addressed the following themes, aligned with the research aims of their project: i) exploring pedagogical approaches in law teaching and how these align with human rights aims such as inclusion, participation, dignity and non-discrimination; and ii) how law teachers are trained and supported to initiate and implement learner-centred, inclusive and participatory pedagogies – as well as the factors that limit their ability to do so.
The Special Rapporteur’s report is available here: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session62/advance-versions/a-hrc-62-39-aev-1-en.pdf
The submission co-authored by Dr Loder and Professor Bosch can be viewed here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2026/call-inputs-curriculum-pedagogy-and-assessment-service-right-education
Watch the Special Rapporteur’s delivery of the report to the UN Human Rights Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COGrs-pbmgg