Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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This cutting-edge LLM places you in the unique position to develop advanced knowledge and expertise in two specialist fields, criminal justice and international human rights. It will empower you to pursue legal practice in the UK and internationally, opening diverse career paths in the criminal justice and human rights sector, or advancing you to the position where you will choose to undertake a PhD in criminal justice or human rights or their interactions.
Applicants will normally have a degree in Law, a related social science discipline (such as Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Media & Communications, Economics or Psychology) or a humanities degree (such as English, History, Philosophy or Art).
We also accept applications from people with professional, transferrable experience working in:
Students will normally be expected to have an upper second-class honours degree or its equivalent. There is some flexibility where applicants demonstrate exceptional commitment or abilities to study for the degree because of their possession of other qualifications, or because they have relevant experiences that would qualify them for the programme.
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Students will study compulsory modules to the value of 60 credits, and complete a compulsory dissertation for 60 credits (120 credits total).
You’ll then be able to choose a further 60 credits of optional modules.
Compulsory modules
Module title Credits
Advanced Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Domestic, Comparative and International 30 credits
International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice 15 credits
International Human Rights: Advanced Themes and Contemporary Debates 15 credits
Criminal Justice and International Human Rights Dissertation 60 credits
Department of Law optional modules
Students can then choose optional modules to the value of 60 credits.
These 60 credits can be made up exclusively of Department of Law modules, or you can choose up to 30 credits from the Interdisciplinary module lists below, which include options from the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Department of Psychology.
Module title Credits
Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Family 15 credits
Human Rights and Criminal Justice: NGO Advocacy, Litigation, and Practice 15 credits
Queer and Feminist Approaches to Law 15 credits
Environmental Challenges, Social Justice and Human Rights 15 credits
Law and Policy Clinic: Criminal Justice 15 credits
Criminal Justice Placement 15 credits
Law and Policy Clinic: Human Rights 15 credits
Human Rights Placement 15 credits
Students can choose 15-30 credits from the lists below (in which case they can only choose 30-45 credits from the Department of Law list of modules above).
Department of Law interdisciplinary modules
Module title Credits
AI, Disruptive Technologies and the Law 15 credits
Art Law 15 credits
Criminal Evidence (with Advanced Mooting and Advocacy) 15 credits
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