LLM International Human Rights and Development
DURATION
14 up to 27 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 20,468 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international / home: GBP 7,938 | part-time: home: GBP 3,969
Key Summary
Introduction
Human rights and the law are 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 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.
Admissions
Curriculum
What you will study
All module information is for 2023 entry and is subject to change.
First-year
Core
- Foundations of Law and Skills
- Sustainable Development Law in Contemporary Business and Society
- Regulatory Theory and Practice
- Dissertation
Option
- International Environmental Law
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- Policy Analysis of Governance and Development
- Public International Law
- Data Protection and Privacy Law
- International Energy Law and Just Transition
- Law and Ethics of Technology and Artificial Intelligence
- Regulatory Theory and Practice
- Business, Human Rights and Environment
- Employment Law
- Legal Technology
- Immigration and Refugee Law
- International Criminal Law
- Law and Gender
- Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
- Emerging Issues in Law
- Elective
Learning and assessment
You will be taught in small groups in an interactive and engaging learning environment.
The course is also enhanced by visiting guest speakers from all walks of life, including the legal professions, academia, and businesses.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Career prospects
Our courses are shaped by the School of Law International Advisory Board, made up of leading figures in the judiciary and legal practice, academia and wider industry and society who advise us on the skills and competencies needed in the current and future workplace. This feeds into the design and delivery of our courses, ensuring our students gain knowledge and experience that is not only academically rigorous but valued by employers.
Career support
The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the Careers website.
Discussing options with specialist advisers helps to clarify plans through exploring options and refining skills of job-hunting. In most of our programmes, there is direct input by Career Development Advisers into the curriculum or through specially arranged workshops.
Program delivery
Full-time
- 14 months January start
- 12 months September start
Part-time
- 27 months January start
- 24 months September start