International Migration and Refugee Law and Policy (LLM) (1ML30)

The LLM in International Migration and Refugee Law is the only course of its kind on offer in an Irish university. This unique programme enables students to develop their knowledge of international and regional law, policy and practice as it relates to the phenomena of international migration, human trafficking and refugee law.

Students can combine the study of international migration with specialised modules in international humanitarian law and peace operations, business and human rights, gender and law, child rights, international criminal law, advocacy, activism and strategic litigation, transnational lawyering, post-conflict justice, Islam and human rights.

Subjects in this course are:-

• Optional LW5110: International Human Rights Law Clinic - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5111: Business and Human Rights 2 - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5112: Human Rights and Global Governance - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5106: Economic Social and Cultural Rights - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5107: International Child Rights - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW547: Human Rights Field Work: Law and Practice - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW548: Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW455: Minority Rights - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW471: International Humanitarian Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW475: Field Experience Assignment - 15 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW525: Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW530: Procedure Before International Criminal Courts - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW538: Transitional Justice - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW546: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights III - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW417: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights II - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5104: Islam and Human Rights II - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW439: Advocacy, Activism and Public Interest Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW561: Mental Health Law and Policy - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5116: Gender and Human Rights - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5117: International Human Rights Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5118: Public International Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5119: The Politics of Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5120: European Convention on Human Rights: Law and Politics - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5121: Transnational Lawyering - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5122: International Criminal Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5123: International Peace Operations - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW5103: Islam and Human Rights I - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Required LW450: Dissertation - 30 Credits - Semester 1
• Required LW5105: Contemporary Issues in International Migration Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Required LW5114: International Refugee Law - 10 Credits - Semester 1
• Required LW5113: The Common European Asylum System - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Required LW5109: European Migration Law - 5 Credits - Semester 1
• Optional LW385: European Human Rights - 5 Credits - Semester 2