LLM Human Rights Law

The Human Rights Law LLM at Queen Mary University of London is a postgraduate program that provides advanced knowledge in the area of human rights law and is designed to give students the practical and theoretical skills needed to work in this challenging field. The course is tailored for lawyers and non-lawyers who focus on human rights mechanisms or those looking to transition into this field. Course Content: The course offers a critical and comparative study of human rights law. It covers human rights in their legal, theoretical, and international contexts, as well as specific human rights such as minority rights, children's rights, and refugees rights.Key Modules: The structure of this course requires four modules for full-time students and two modules for part-time ones. The postgraduate degree is made up of 180 credits, encompassing modules like Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Transnational Law and Governance: Comparative Perspectives, and new launched modules such as Law and Society in Southeast Asia among others. Future Careers: Upon completion, students can branch out into a broad range of career paths. Graduates can opt for a career in legal practice, advising on human rights in an NGO or charity, public office, or locational sector such as energy, banking, environment, etc. Students may also opt to move on to further research. For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.