Human Rights and Social Justice LLM
Hartford, USA
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 1,276 / per credit
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Introduction
The LLM in Human Rights and Social Justice at UConn School of Law offers students with a prior law degree a unique opportunity to pursue a course of study that integrates the international and domestic dimensions of a social justice practice of law.
In keeping with the growing trend in the business, non-profit and public policy worlds to blend international and domestic human rights, the program provides students with the opportunity for in-depth study of the international human rights and U.S. civil rights movements. Graduates will gain the specialized credentials and skills needed in the global business environment, in social policy work and in the effort to meet the pressing need for access to justice for the poor and middle class in America and worldwide.
The flexible program provides a rigorous and cohesive grounding in the norms and methods of the human rights and civil rights movements. Students also have the opportunity to take courses through the Human Rights Institute, a leading center of innovation in interdisciplinary human rights research and teaching, on the University's main campus in Storrs.
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Course of Study: Human Rights and Social Justice LLM
The Law School courses pre-approved for the Human Rights and Social Justice LLM are listed below. International Human Rights (offered each spring semester) is a required course. Students may petition for the inclusion of other courses, subject to the approval of the director. All courses are open to LLM candidates as well as JD candidates, and only a few courses have prerequisites.
Required courses:
- LAW7878 – International Human Rights
Additionally, students who have a foreign law degree are required to take in the first semester:
- LAW7535 – U.S. Law and Legal Institutions
- LAW7585 – US Law and Legal Institutions: Research and Writing
Pre-approved courses:
- LAW7376 – Access to Justice
- LAW7810 – American Indian Law
- LAW7914 – American Slavery and American Law: The Legal Origins of Racism in America
- LAW7885 – Children and the Law
- LAW7568 – Climate Law
- LAW7609 – Clinic: Asylum and Human Rights
- LAW7722 – Clinic: Human Rights and International Law
- LAW7386 – Clinic: Immigration Detention and DACA
- LAW7942 – Comparative Health Systems
- LAW7872 – Comparative Law and Rights
- LAW7350 – Constitution of the Child
- LAW7825 – Consumer Protection Laws and Debt Collection
- LAW7645 – Criminal Procedure
- LAW7696 – Crisis in American Labor Law
- LAW7380 – Critical Race Theory
- LAW7372 – Disability Justice
- LAW7360 – Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession
- LAW7901 – Elder Law
- LAW7655 – Employment Discrimination Law
- LAW7587 – Ethics of Public Health
- LAW7653 – European Human Rights
- LAW7657 – Family Law
- LAW7592 – Health and Human Rights
- LAW7883 – Human Rights Post Conflict Justice
- LAW7358 – Human Rights, Topics In
- LAW7529 – Immigration and Workplace Rights
- LAW7672 – Immigration Law
- LAW7357 – Insurance and Discrimination
- LAW7805 – International Environmental Law
- LAW7679 – International Law
- LAW7766 – Labor Law: Organizing and Collective Bargaining
- LAW7697 – Law and Public Education
- LAW7593 – Law and Public Health
- LAW7763 – Law and the Mental Health System
- LAW7802 – National Security Law
- LAW7876 – Philosophy of Collective Rights and Self-Determination
- LAW7695 – Philosophy of Human Rights
- LAW7381 – Race and Property in U.S. History
- LAW7814 – Refugee Law
- LAW7925 – Sexuality, Gender and the Law
- LAW7905 – Special Education Law
- LAW7759 – The Nuremberg Trials
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