Study Details: LLM 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
Human rights abuses still occur, despite growing numbers of international treaties and organisations dedicated to their eradication. The LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice engages you in a critical, nuanced and interdisciplinary examination of this paradox.
You’ll learn about issues central to the work of human rights scholars and practitioners including states and non-state actors as perpetrators and duty-bearers; standard-setting versus implementation; and the interaction between law, policy and advocacy at local, regional and global levels. Whether you are a mid-career professional or recent graduate, our LLM enables you to acquire the substantive knowledge, versatile skills and valuable networks necessary to work in the human rights field.
The LLM International Human Rights Law and Practice is distinctive because you will:
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We provide career advice, networking opportunities, hands-on experience and personalised reference letters to help you find good jobs with human rights NGOs, humanitarian and development organisations, policy think-tanks, national governments, and UN agencies.
Core modules
Our core modules enable you to acquire holistic knowledge and the socio-legal skills you need for a successful career in human rights practice, or progression to PhD study.
You'll have opportunities to join the Human Rights Defense Clinic, write essays and a moot written submission, produce presentations and hold moot oral arguments, prepare advocacy campaigns and submissions to international human rights bodies, as well as undertake a human rights placement in Colombia, South Africa or York with an organisation that works on a topic of interest.
Applying International Human Rights Law
Practice of Fieldwork
Human Rights Placement
International Human Rights Laboratory
Option modules
You will also study two option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
Financial Crime (York Law School)
International Criminal Justice (York Law School)
Issues in the Philosophy of Criminal Law (York Law School)
Law and Society (York Law School)
Current Issues in Counter-terrorism and Media Law (York Law School)
Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law (York Law School)
Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory (York Law School)
Theories and Policies of Development Governance (Politics)
Transitional Justice and Human Rights (Politics)
Law and Social Control (Sociology)
Women, Citizenship and Conflict (Centre for Women’s Studies)
Public International Law (York Law School)
Asylum: Theory, law and practice (York Law School)
Feminist Research Methodologies (Centre for Women's Studies)
Backlash and Co-optation: Feminism, Anti-Racism and Human Rights Politics
The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course. For further information please get in touch.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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