The LLM in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Aberystwyth University offers you the opportunity to engage with the distinct yet complementary regimes of human rights law and humanitarian law and to study an area of law with urgent contemporary significance and practical relevance. By studying this course, you will tackle traditional subjects as well as new and emerging issues, such as the regulation of international society and the legal mechanisms of human rights during international and non-international armed conflicts. Your study will reflect the local, national and international nuances of this complex subject matter. This course is also available by Distance Learning.

Why study LLM Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Aberystwyth University?

This course balances the academic with the urgently practical – for example, combining the necessarily comprehensive detail of human rights legislation in conflict with the harsh reality of the threats posed to human rights and the conflicts and tensions within the system of human rights protection.

Students studying Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Aberystwyth will enjoy:

• strong human rights expertise
• a wide range of modules on human and humanitarian law subjects
• a mixture of practical and theoretical study.

How will I learn?

This course is a one year full-time programme, but can be taken part-time. The academic year is divided into three semesters. In the first two semesters, you will take the module of Legal Studies and at least 3 (and up to 5) other modules on human rights and humanitarian law, with the option of taking two modules from other legal disciplines, such as environmental law. These modules are delivered via seminars, with a strong emphasis placed on independent study.

In the final semester (June-September), you will complete an extended dissertation, and arrange your level of contact time with your assigned dissertation supervisor.

Careers

This course will be particularly attractive to those seeking careers in government departments, think tanks, international organisations, humanitarian and human rights advocacy, business organisations, international law firms and a range of non-governmental organisations.