International Human Rights and Development LLM
Postgraduate
In Bradford
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Postgraduate
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Bradford
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Duration
1 Year
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Human rights and the law is a huge growth area, evolving and expanding in response to new developments, threats, and evolution in our thinking as a society. It has great significance for major global challenges such as war, terrorism, gender, migration and climate change, and interfaces quite significantly with impacts from science and innovation.
This new LLM in Human Rights and Development is designed to provide you with an understanding of human rights in its multi-layered form, with a critical emphasis on its complementarity with development.
The course offers a wide range of modules that are contemporary, academically rigorous and skills oriented. You'll gain core knowledge of the wider context framing law and policy in this field, whilst having the flexibility to tailor your degree to suit your particular interests and career aspirations by choosing from a range of specialist human rights law and development modules.
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2:2 or above in any subject, or relevant work experience at graduate level.
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Human Rights
- Human Rights Law
- Management
- LLM
- International
- Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Migration & Asylum Law
- Business Human Rights and Environment
Course programme
The modules for this course can be found in the latest programme specification.
An intensive 2-week induction at the beginning of the course ensures that all students, including those from non-law and/or international backgrounds are taught the core concepts and academic skills necessary to achieve the learning outcomes.
Students take 180 credits of modules comprising a taught element of 120 credits, and a 60 credit dissertation.
Students will be required to take 40 credits of core modules covering subjects on Principles of Regulation and Enforcement, and Sustainable Development Law in Business and Society which will explore core themes and provide the necessary background and wider context of the study of this subject.
In addition, students will be required to take a total of 60 credits of modules from the following s(20 credits each) which will provide specific and in-depth knowledge in specialist aspects of human rights and development:
- Public International Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Gender Law
- Migration & Asylum Law
- Peace keeping and Peace Building
- Business Human Rights and Environment
- Governance for Development
The final 20-credit module of the LLM in International Commercial Law is an elective which can either be chosen from the list above, from a wider pool of postgraduate modules from the School of Law or from other departments such as the School of Management
International Human Rights and Development LLM