Human Rights

Syllabus

This programme allows students to combine specialist topics of domestic, regional (European) and universal fundamental rights.

Students must complete four courses and a dissertation. At least three courses must be taken from the list below. The fourth course can be taken from one of the other LLM programmes.

• Regional Human Rights Systems
• Peoples, Indigenous Peoples and Minorities in International Law
• Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development
• International Human Rights Law
• Legal Issues in EU Law
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Legal Regimes for the Protection of Minority Languages

Assessment

Assessment is based on a combination of written examination and one or more course essays. In some courses, the essay counts for 25% of the total mark. In addition, students must complete a course in research methods and a dissertation on a topic within the specialism. Guidance on the writing of a dissertation is given.

Teaching

Teaching is organised on a modular basis. There are two 12-week semesters, the first beginning at the end of September, the second at the end of January. Students can join either in September or January. Examinations are held at the end of each semester, in January and May. Courses are offered subject to the availability of staff, sufficient enrolment and to sabbatical arrangements.

Duration

12 months, full-time.