Law, Democracy, and Human Welfare: Global Perspectives (Intensive) (LLM)

Birkbeck, University of London

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In London

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

Programme overview A range of national and transnational crises are addressed through welfare-centred models of responding to human need, suffering and 'deviance'. These crises include people seeking asylum, populations in need arising out of conflicts or natural disasters, populations subject to pandemics, and communities in social and economic crisis. This programme offers you the opportunity to study the legal and wider social and economic structures that determine the responses to these crises. There is an increasing privatisation of formerly state-based responses to social and economic crises. There is also a globalisation of strategies and mechanisms of governance: a transnational flow of technologies for addressing social welfare demands and needs. This is the only programme in the UK that responds to these developments by combining the focus on governmental responses to human suffering and need with the study of private sector organisations delivering services to populations in crisis. Human need and suffering is increasingly the catalyst for local and transnational protest movements. This programme brings Birkbeck's avowedly critical approach to questions concerning the 'commons', as well as to the political and juridical questions concerning natural resources, water and food.

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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

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Subjects

  • Private Law
  • IT Law
  • Human Rights
  • International Economic Law
  • LLM
  • International
  • Global
  • Law
  • Private
  • Democracy

Course programme

Course structure

You take 2 compulsory modules and 4 option modules, one of which can be a dissertation.

Compulsory modules
  • The Legal Regulation of Welfare Services: Global Perspectives
  • UK Public and Private Law: Accountability for Delivery of Welfare Services
Option modules
  • Advanced International Economic Law, Justice and Development (Intensive)
  • Conflict, Intervention and Human Rights: Contemporary Challenges
  • Cultures of Human rights (Intensive)
  • Introduction to International Economic Law, Justice and Development (Intensive)
  • Introduction to the Law of International Finance
  • Issues in International Law and Human Rights (Intensive)
  • Risk, rights and responsibility: governing epidemics and regulating health
  • Southern Perspectives on Constitutional and Political Transformation
  • The History and Philosophy of Human Rights (Intensive)
Dissertation LLM/MA Law, Democracy and Human Welfare (Intensive)
  • Dissertation (LLM LDHW Intensive)

You may also take option modules from other intensively taught LLM programmes such as Human Rights or International Economic Law, Justice, and Development.

Sample timetable Intensives 16-17 Timetable.pdf — PDF document, 80 kB (82038 bytes)

Additional information

Teaching and assessment Teaching Combination of materials and readings developed especially for this intensive programme, as well as face-to-face teaching twice a year. Assessment For most modules, final assessment is based on a combination of classroom presentations...

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