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LLM - Master of Laws
City Campus
Full Time
Jan 2028
14 Month
Human rights and the law is 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.
All module information is for 2020 entry, and is subject to change.
This module focuses on countries of the Global South which have experienced conflict. You will explore the changes that have taken place in peacekeeping on the ground, and analyse the different evaluations that have been made by academics, practitioners, campaigners and politicians. You will interrogate the concept of peacebuilding and analyse the ways in which its varying objectives have been addressed by different actors over time in different parts of the Global South. You will explore these themes in the context of country case studies. You will undertake research, using both academic sources and accounts from international organisations, ranging from the United Nations to international Non-Governmental Organisations.
All module information is for 2020 entry, and is subject to change.
To enable you to write a dissertation, to develop the capacity to conduct independent and advanced research under limited supervision.
All module information is for 2020 entry, and is subject to change.
This module will provide a theoretical underpinning to enable you to deconstruct the various forms of regulatory theory within a legal context. Three key questions will be initially discussed to enable a broad foundation to be established: Is regulation necessary at all? What approach to regulation should be adopted? and What should the regulatory architecture be comprised of?
All module information is for 2020 entry, and is subject to change.
This module aims to provide an appreciation of the international law of sustainable development by introducing key international legal frameworks and institutions related to sustainable development and by looking into certain important areas where international sustainable development law is being implemented. The module also discusses practical issues related to sustainable development, such as those arising from the efforts to eradicate poverty and inequality and the support of the poor and disadvantaged. The areas of primary focus are: business, environment, human rights and international trade/commerce.
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