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LLM
Human Rights and Development*

Location
Southwark

Duration
14 months (full-time)
26 months (part-time)

Start date
September

Number of places
40

Simple timetable info
Full-time: mornings and afternoons
Part-time: morning and afternoon

How to apply
Direct to LSBU

Course Contact
Andy Unger
ungerad@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 6344

Typical Offer
A Law degree - LLB (hons)

Non-standard entry requirements
Graduates with non-UK or non-law degrees with relevant knowledge and experience. Individual applications for accreditation of prior learning and experience will be considered in accordance with the FAHS Policy on APL and APEL.

Course Units
Core
– Research Methods

– Images of Development

– International Human Rights Law

– Human Rights and Development
Options
– International Criminal Law

– International Humanitarian Law

– Globalisation, International Business and
Development
– Involuntary Migration and Resettlement

– International Refugee Law

– Asylum Policy in the EU and Member States with Particular Emphasis on the UK

– Conflicts, Violence and Population Displacements in Developing Societies

– Dissertation

*subject to validation


Course description

The LLM Human Rights and Development offers a mixture of International Human Rights Law and Development Studies units that explore the protection of international human rights within the context of international development practice and the role of a rights-based approach to international development practice.

Career opportunities

The LLM Human Rights and Development equips graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to work in the fields of law, human rights and development. Graduates with a background in law might go on to qualify as lawyers working in fields such as human rights, immigration and asylum and public law. Graduates with a development studies background might go on to practice in the NGO sector employing a rights-based approach to development. Graduates may go on to work as advisors and policy makers in the broad field of human rights, development, immigration and asylum.

Typical background of applicant

A law graduate, development studies or social science graduate from the UK or abroad.

Professional contacts/industry links

Through our growing pool of visiting fellows and professors, the Law Department has developed an enviable network of contacts with leading law practitioners in the UK. Many members of the Law Department are practitioners, or retain strong links with the legal profession. The Law Department enjoys strong links with a number of leading European Law Faculties, including Universitie Cergy Pontoise in France, INHOLLAND University in the Netherlands and Zagreb University in Croatia.

Recent guest lecturers

– Vera Baird, QC, MP

– Joel Bennathan QC, Barrister

– Sir Geoffrey Bindman, Solicitor

– Imran Khan, Solicitor

– Roger Smith, Director of Justice

Additional notes

This LLM Programme is offered subject to validation. Validation is due to take place in autumn 2008.