UCD Sutherland School of Law LL.M. in Human Rights Masters degree programme – deadline July 31/November 30

The Sutherland School of Law at UCD invites applications for its LL.M. in Human Rights for the academic year 2014-2015.  The LL.M. provides students and practitioners with the opportunity to acquire specialised and in-depth knowledge and understanding of international human rights law, political theory of rights and international relations relating to human rights. The programme is interdisciplinary, thus building on the strengths in this area of the Sutherland School of Law and the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD. Members of staff in the Sutherland School of Law have engaged in major research in this area spanning the full range of international human rights law from asylum law and practice, the EU and fundamental rights to the law of privacy in Ireland.

On completion of this programme, students will be able:

• To understand and think critically about the intersections between law, politics and international relations that come to the fore in the study of human rights;
• To apply their knowledge and understanding of human rights law, political theory and international relations to real and hypothetical factual situations
• To conduct independent research and write coherent, well-structured papers.

Applications are encouraged from graduates holding a degree (normally a 2.1. or 1^st class or equivalent) in Law, or an inter-disciplinary degree in which law was a major component, as well as from persons with significant, relevant, practical experience or those with a post-graduate qualification at Masters level or higher in a relevant discipline. 

Click here for further information on the LL.M. and the application process.