International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy

TheLL.M in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy at University of Galway delivers a solid grounding for future practitioners, policy-makers and academics in the field of disability reform.

The introduction of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has resulted in significant changes in the area of disability law and policy. Our graduates will be among the first to be skilled in this growing area of law and policy.

This program will be of interest to students who have completed a primary law degree, legal practitioners, public servants, disability and human rights advocates and people working in disability services.

Careers

Graduates have found employment in a variety of areas, including work in the UN, senior legal appointments, as lecturers, solicitors, and barristers, in national, regional and international advocacy organisations, in national human rights institutions, as government advisors and with non-governmental organisations.

Many of our graduates are leading change and reform in disability law and policy throughout the world. Graduates of the program have also secured funding to pursue Ph.D. research and are now working in universities around the world.

Courses include:

• Theoretical Framework for Disability Law (Mandatory)

• Regional Disability Law and Policy

• Law and Policy onIndependent Living

• Legal Capacity Law and Policy

• MentalHealth Law and Policy

• Inclusive Education Law and Policy

• Advocacy and Access to Justice

• Contemporary Challenges inDisability Law and Policy

• International Human Rights Disability Clinic