LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at SOAS

LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice

Duration: One calendar year (full-time)
Two/ three years (part-time, daytime only)
We recommend that part-time students have between two-and-a-half and three days a week free to pursue their course of study.

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Minimum Entry Requirements: Minimum upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) in Law

Start of programme: September intake only

The LLM programme is a single subject law programme that may be taken over a period of one year (full-time), or part-time over a period of two, three or four years. Every student will be required to take courses equivalent to four full units. the assessment of one of the chosen full units (which must be from your chosen specialism) will be by means of a 15,000 word dissertation. The dissertation must be linked to a course offered at SOAS itself, and attendance on the course will be treated as being part of the process of supervision.

With permission of the LLM tutor, students will be entitled to select one complementary subject or the equivalent from comparable Master’s course at SOAS including appropriate language courses. A complementary subject may be chosen in substitution for either a full or a half-subject.

Examinations for all taught courses will be held in May/June of each year and the dissertation will be due for submission by 15th September of the final year of registration. The assessment for each course may vary according to the extent to which the research component of each course is to be stressed.

It is expected that all students will graduate with an LLM in law. It is possible, however, for students wishing to graduate with a ‘specialist’ degree, to do so by way of opting to take three or more courses from the relevant subject groupings below. In each case, the student must undertake a dissertation in that subject grouping.

Email: lawandsocialsciences@soas.ac.uk

Structure

Programme Specification

LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice programme specification.

Programme Structure

Overview

Students are required to take four taught courses, one of which will be assessed by a 15,000 word dissertation. Three courses must be chosen from the list below. The fourth option may be chosen from the SOAS LLM course list. There is also an optional pre-sessional course.

Three courses must be chosen from the following SOAS LLM course list:

Foundations of Comparative Law - 15PLAH031 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Foundations of international law - 15PLAH021 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1 - Not Running 2012/2013
Human rights and Islamic law - 15PLAC150 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Human rights in the developing world - 15PLAC111 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Human rights of women - 15PLAC112 (1 Unit) - Full Year
International Criminal Law in Practice - 15PLAC168 (1 Unit) - Full Year - Not Running 2012/2013
The law of armed conflict - 15PLAH022 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
International human rights clinic - 15PLAC145 (1 Unit) - Full Year - Not Running 2012/2013
International Labour Law and Equality Rights - 15PLAC169 (1 Unit) - Full Year
International law and global orders - 15PLAH019 (0.5 Unit) - Term 2
International law and international relations - 15PLAH037 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
International laws on the use of force - 15PLAH020 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1 - Not Running 2012/2013
International protection of human rights - 15PLAC119 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals - 15PLAH042 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Societies - 15PLAH040 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Law and international inequality:critical legal analysis of political economy from colonialism to globalisation - 15PLAC131 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Law and policy of international courts and tribunals - 15PLAH026 (0.5 Unit) - Term 2
Law, human rights and peace building: the Israeli-Palestinian case - 15PLAC133 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Modern Chinese law and human rights - 15PLAC139 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Sociological Approaches to Law - 15PLAH032 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1

Optional Pre-sessional Course

Preliminary law, legal reasoning and legal methods - 15PLAC162 (0 Unit) - Term 1

Teaching & Learning

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