Law, Human Rights in Criminal Justice LLM/MA

Law, Human Rights in Criminal Justice LLM/MA

The LLM/MA in Human Rights in Criminal Justice is designed to give graduates an understanding of the interaction between human rights and criminal justice in the 21st century and knowledge of the legal actors, supervisory bodies and institutions central to the field. Students will be given an in-depth understanding of the legal regimes operating at national, regional and global levels and sources of human rights law in the field of criminal justice. In addition to an understanding of the human rights protection mechanisms in this context, students will address the question of how human rights law can be enforced. Students will also develop important transferable skills including analytical, research, communication and report writing skills.

This degree can be taken on a full time, twelve month basis, or a part time twenty four month basis. Full time students complete the program over a period of twelve months by taking four modules in both the autumn and spring semesters, before completing a dissertation during the summer semester. Part- time students complete the program over a 24 month period by taking two modules in both the autumn and spring semesters of each year, before completing a dissertation in the summer semester of the second year. The module selection for each semester will be by agreement with the Course Director.

Semester 1

• Advanced Legal Research Skills

Three electives from

• Comparative International Protection of Human Rights Law
• Criminal Justice Processes and Sentencing
• Law of the European Convention of Human Rights
• Penology and Victimology

Semester 2

• Dissertation Methodology

Three Electives from:

• International Criminal Law
• Policing and Human Rights
• Criminology
• Comparative and European Criminal Justice
• Regulatory Crime
• Using evidence to improve societal outcomes in the real world
• Hate Crime
• Youth Crime

Summer

• Dissertation