Course Overview
This course will provide you with a strong academic grounding as well as the practical and vocational legal skills required for legal practice in the human rights field. You will also have the opportunity to undertake a work placement during your degree to develop your skills. After this course, you could work for a law firm, international organization, government department, think-tank, non-governmental organization, or a research and development organization.r LLM is designed and taught by experienced legal professionals and human rights activists. It will provide you with the necessary foundation for the skills in the human rights field for legal practice, campaigning, and advocacy. You will gain a thorough understanding of the theories, issues, and concepts underpinning international human rights and, crucially, how they are put into practice. Suitable for legal practitioners, aspiring legal professionals, and human rights activists, this course will enable you to build upon your skillsets in project management, research, analysis, problem-solving and critical thinking within the field of human rights. This LLM program will examine the rhetoric and reality of human rights using an issues-based approach. Taking an interdisciplinary and holistic approach, you will acquire a high level of specialist knowledge, informed by current thinking and debate.
General Eligibility
You should usually hold a second-class honors degree (certain programs may require a 2:1) from a recognized British or overseas university.
Part Time Work Details
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Language Requirement