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LLM/MSSc in Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Aims
This Masters course is designed for those with an academic and / or professional interest in postgraduate studies in all areas of Human Rights law, equality, and conflict. Within the School of Law, human rights research and teaching on the LL.M. degree has been carried out under the auspices of the Human Rights Centre since 1990. Within the field of criminology and criminal justice, teaching on the LLM and research is carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice , established in 1995.
The School’s postgraduate LLM programmes in human rights and criminal justice are exciting and rewarding degree courses which attract a diverse student body, including international students, students who are qualified legal practitioners and students with extensive experience in the statutory, community or voluntary sectors. The teachers on the course have experience of working for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, the United Nations Working Group on Minorities; Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young Persons, the Inter American Court of Human Rights, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Council of Europe and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Women in Politics programme and the Geneva based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, amongst others. This diversity among both staff and students allows the students and teachers on the course to learn from each other and makes for a vibrant academic experience.
Duration
1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
Activities
A number of activities are organised for postgraduate Human Rights Students, see further details of Activities for LLM Human Rights Students .
Prize for the best LLM Dissertation
The Human Rights Centre is pleased to announce that the NI Human Rights Commission has agreed to provide a prize for the best LLM dissertation on a Human Rights topic. The prize will be 500 pounds, and will be presented to the recipient at a public ceremony hosted by the Commission. The recipient will be asked to make a short presentation on the dissertation at the prize giving ceremony. The successful dissertation will subsequently be published on the NIHRC website. (Any LLM student who is a staff member of the Commission or a Commissioner is ineligible for this prize.)
Entrance Requirements
Applicants should normally have a primary degree (2.1 or 1st class or equivalent) in Law or a cognate discipline from the Social Sciences or Humanities.
Organisation of the LLM Programme
The programme is offered on a modular basis. It may be completed in one year on a full-time basis or two years on a part-time basis. To complete the degree, students must have successfully passed courses amounting to 180 credits. Students wishing to complete the LLM in Human Rights and Criminal Justice are required to take compulsory modules in:
Protecting Human Rights (30 credits)
Criminal Justice Processes (30 credits) or Theory & Practice Criminology (30 credits)
To make up their remaining 60 credits they must choose from the following elective modules. including:
30 credits from:
· A Social History of Criminal Justice (15 credits)
· Restorative Justice (15 credits)
· Comparative Youth Justice (15 credits)
· Penal Policy and Practice (15 credits)
· Psychological Aspects of Crime (15 credits)
· Criminal Justice Research (15 credits)
· Sentencing and the Criminal Justice System (15 credits)
· Transitional Justice and Conflict Transformation (15 credits)
30 credits from:
· European Convention on Human Rights and Current Issues: Human Rights II (30 credits)
· Conflict Regulation (30 Credits)
· Children’s Rights (15 credits)
· Women’s Rights (15 credits)
· Theories of Rights (15 credits)
· Human Rights and Governance (15 credits)
· Human Rights and Exploitation (15 credits)
For further information on module content please see the course handbook.
Please note that optional modules are subject to variation from year to year as the aim of the School is to provide research-led teaching.
Assessment
All modules are primarily assessed by way of an essay. For 30 credit modules this will normally be an essay of up to 6000 words, for 15 credit modules this will be generally an essay of up to 3000 words. The dissertation must be up to 20,000 words in length and must normally be submitted by mid-September of the student's final year.
Closing Date for Applications
Applications will be accepted up to end August 2010. After this date, please contact the School Postgraduate Secretary (pglawenquiries@qub.ac.uk)
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Dr Hakeem Yusuf h.yusuf@qub.ac.uk |
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