Master of Laws in Human Rights Law in Sweden

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LLM is Latin for Legum Magister, signifying Master of Laws. Our Master of Laws (LL.M.) Program in American Law is a one-year graduate program. Foreign law graduates who successfully complete the program are awarded the degree “LL.M. in American Law.”

With the increase in human rights violation around the world, a degree in LLM in Human Rights Law enables you to acquire skills to defend the people against the civil society. The training gives the authority to understand these rights of the less fortunate human beings in the society and the world as a whole.

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LLM in International Human Rights Law

Lund University
Campus Full time 2 years September 2019 Sweden Lund

The Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law in Lund was one of the first LL.M programmes established specifically to provide for the academic mastery of an increasingly complex area: international law of human rights and humanitarian law. [+]

Programme overview

For 25 years, the Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law has been offered by the Faculty of Law. It is a cooperative venture by the Faculty of Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI). This makes your education unique: no other LL.M programme offers the joint resources of a prestigious law school and an implementation-oriented human rights institution. We believe that this gives opportunity for a scholarly approach to human rights close to human rights practice.

We aim to train your contextual awareness, analytic clarity and practical skills alike. Both the Faculty of Law at Lund University and the RWI are respected educational actors and our graduates benefit from the fact that the Master’s programme in Lund is held in highesteem worldwide. The programme staff havebeen selectedto ensure the highest scholarly standards in research and training. We regularly add outstanding scholars, experts, judges from international courts and tribunals, diplomats and human rights intellectuals to the list of guest professors addressing our students. Notable guests at the Faculty and RWI have among others been Kofi Annan, Shirin Ebadi, Hans Corell, Chris Patten, Rosalyn Higgins and Gro Harlem Brundtland.... [-]