Human Rights Law

This Human Rights Law LLMprogramoffered at Queen Mary University of London provides you with academic and practical knowledge about human rights and humanitarian law, allowing you to offer top-level counsel to clients. Focusing on key issues of human rights—such as socio-economic rights; rights of women; international child rights and the crimes of the powerful—you will be introduced to the institutions, standards and case law which structure human rights and humanitarian law. You will also debate the uses of universality and cultural relativism in relation to human rights.

Key facts

• As part of this course, you will attend a range of activities including the evening and lunchtime guest lectures, while benefiting from London being the home to a large number of major human rights organisations.

Courses include:

• European Convention on Human Rights Law
• International Human Rights Law: History, Theory and Politics
• Terrorism & Human Rights: Constitutional Perspectives
• Secession and Self-Determination in International Law
• Mental Health Law: Capacity to Consent and Best Interests
• Use of Force in International Law
• International Criminal Law
• Cultural Diversity and Law
• International Refugee Law
• Comparative Immigration Law
• EU Criminal Law