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Study Details: 1 year Full time
The LLM in International Human Rights equips you with advanced knowledge and expertise in human rights law, giving you access to our internationally leading faculty, eminent legal experts, and some of the foremost human rights organisations in the UK.
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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All students must complete the following compulsory modules (30 credits) and a dissertation (60 credits).
Module title Credits
International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice 15 credits
International Human Rights: Advanced Themes and Contemporary Debates 15 credits
International Human Rights Dissertation 60 credits
Students can then choose optional modules to the value of 90 credits.
These 90 credits can be made up exclusively of Department of Law optional modules, but you may choose to select up to 30 credits from either of the Interdisciplinary modules lists below, which include human rights modules from the Department of Politics and International Relations.
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