107 Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Master's Degree Programs

The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) is an intensive one-year course aimed at educating 90 professionals in the field of human rights and democratisation.

The Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management is a postgraduate 1st level Master's program designed to provide students from different cultures and backgrounds with a deep understanding of the linkages between human rights and conflict management theory and practice.

The Master in International Fashion Law is a specialized program that combines in-depth legal studies with a practical understanding of the fashion, luxury, and cosmetics industries. This prepares legal and business professionals to face the legal and strategic challenges of a dynamic industry.

International Law and Human Rights is a 2-year master's program at the School of Law of The University of Tartu, providing comprehensive knowledge of the principles, regulations, subjects, and practice in the field of international law and human rights. Students can obtain comprehensive knowledge in the field of international law and human rights. All students are given strong ground knowledge in international law and human rights, and then they can expand their knowledge in specific areas, depending on their needs and interests, by taking various elective courses.

The Master’s Degree Programme in International Law and Human Rights provides students with specialised expertise in public international law and the protection of human rights.

This Human Rights and Diplomacy programme offers a distinctive blend of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Students will engage with modules covering human rights law and politics, the history and philosophical foundations of UN human rights institutions, and receive hands-on training from seasoned UN professionals. Skills such as negotiation, public speaking, leadership, and impactful advocacy will be emphasized throughout the course.

The Master’s Degree in Law – Specialization in Human Rights and Sustainability offers the opportunity to deepen legal studies in an area of central importance to the challenges of the 21st century. In an increasingly interdependent world where legal boundaries are becoming more porous and the response to complex problems requires multi-level solutions, only legal professionals capable of articulating different legal systems will be adequately prepared to rigorously face the theoretical and practical challenges related to the promotion and protection of human rights and the construction of sustainable development models.

The Master’s degree aims at developing a universal culture of human rights. With a strong policy and action-oriented approach, where research and lecturing activities reflect the transnational and transcultural dimensions of human rights studies, it provides professional knowledge and skills to promote and guarantee the respect of human rights. Human rights law, multi-level governance of human sustainable development and security are conceptual paradigms of reference throughout the Program.

The master's degree in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics offers specific training in ethics, politics and philosophy of law to provide students with the skills to understand and to take decisions regarding human rights and democratic policies, problems related to coexistence in today's multicultural contexts, subjectivity and identity, and the dilemmas encountered in bioethics and biopolitics.

The Master's in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics offers specialized training from the perspectives of ethics, politics, and the philosophy of law. Its aim is to equip students with the skills to guide and make decisions regarding the development of human rights and democratic policies, the challenges of civic coexistence in today's multicultural context, subjectivity, and identity. It also addresses the dilemmas of bioethics and biopolitics.

The MSocSc (Rights & Social Policy) provides advanced study in key and often challenging issues facing social policy today. It provides an opportunity for critical study in the application of social policy theory and methodology to policy and practice.

Our Master's Degree in Labor Law offers you updated and complete training in the legal regime of the labor context and Social Security so that you are an expert in legal advice in this legal area.

The main goal of the LL.M. in Human Rights program is to provide theoretical and practical training for future scholars and professionals in human rights, with special emphasis on the legal aspects of human rights protection. Our highly qualified and diverse full-time and part-time (visiting) faculty prepare students to engage in comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of complex human rights problems.

The Arab Master is a unique cross-regional programme. It is an intensive advanced course on Human Rights and Democracy with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab master's programme includes research-oriented courses and practical trainings in the field of human rights and democratisation. It attracts students, researchers and experts from the region and beyond because of its multidisciplinary scope, its comparative approach and its action-oriented features. It offers cross-regional mobility. While based in Beirut (Lebanon), it includes a semester in one of the following partner universities: Birzeit University (Palestine), Carthage University (Tunisia), the University of Jordan (Jordan ) and the International University of Rabat (Morocco). Students can also spend a semester in Egypt. You will acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and insights into the region, while building expertise in the master programme’s four streams: Human Rights, Democratic Governance, the Arab World and Applied Human Rights.

The LLM in Human Rights will give you the knowledge and skills to deal with some of the biggest challenges facing society today, opening up exciting career opportunities in the field of human rights.

The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (EMA) is a one-year, full-time course that provides a practice and policy-oriented approach to learning that combines legal, political, historical, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives of human rights and democratisation with skill-building activities and a field trip exercise.