Peace Operations, Humanitarian Law and Conflict (LLM) (1ML15)

The LLM in Peace Operations, Humanitarian Law and Conflict provides students with a comprehensive insight into global frameworks of international humanitarian law and human rights protection with the addition of a peacekeeping specialisation. This interdisciplinary programme focuses on UN peacekeeping and related operations to provide insights into the peace operations and conflict resolution frameworks.

This unique programme offering combines issues relating to peacekeeping, international humanitarian law, human rights and conflict resolution to prepare graduates for work in the field of international peace operations with international organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and as individual advocates.

Subjects in this course are:-

• Optional LW561: Mental Health Law and Policy - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW556: Law and Policy on Independent Living - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW553: Inclusive Education Law and Policy - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW551: Contemporary Challenges in Disability Law and Policy - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW550: Advocacy and Access to Justice - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW562: Regional Disability Law and Policy - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW548: Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5105: Contemporary Issues in International Migration Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5106: Economic Social and Cultural Rights - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5107: International Child Rights - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW547: Human Rights Field Work: Law and Practice - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5103: Islam and Human Rights I - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5104: Islam and Human Rights II - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5109: European Migration Law - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5110: International Human Rights Law Clinic - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5111: Business and Human Rights 2 - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5112: Human Rights and Global Governance - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5113: The Common European Asylum System - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5114: International Refugee Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW530: Procedure Before International Criminal Courts - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW546: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights III - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5101: International Disability Human Rights Clinic - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW455: Minority Rights - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW417: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights II - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW475: Field Experience Assignment - 15 Credits 
• Optional LW525: Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW439: Advocacy, Activism and Public Interest Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5116: Gender and Human Rights - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5117: International Human Rights Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5118: Public International Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5119: The Politics of Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5120: European Convention on Human Rights: Law and Politics - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW5121: Transnational Lawyering - 5 Credits 
• Optional LW5122: International Criminal Law - 10 Credits 
• Optional LW538: Transitional Justice - 10 Credits 
• Required LW471: International Humanitarian Law - 10 Credits 
• Required LW5123: International Peace Operations - 10 Credits 
• Required LW450: Dissertation - 30 Credits