Human Rights

MA Human Rights

Full-Time Programme

The School of Law offers this exciting and innovative Master's programme which will lead to a MA in Human Rights. The focus of the programme is on theoretically informed and multi-disciplinary approaches to human rights and aims to expose students to a contextual engagement with the subject . To this end students will study human rights in its political, legal, sociological, anthropological and philosophical contexts. Because of the ability to study on a part-time basis in the evening, the course will be particularly attractive to legal professionals and others who work for human rights organisations, allowing them to critically reflect on their roles as human rights practitioners. As a student, you will be introduced to approaches to research across a range of disciplines and to the theoretical frameworks for advanced legal scholarship. You will also take specialist courses on a range of subjects in the area of human rights.

Law at Birkbeck provides an exciting and innovative centre for a wide range of research with a strong critical, theoretical and policy focus.