Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster
LLM Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice
LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights
Deadline for application: 27 June 2014

The Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster is currently accepting applications for two LLM programmes: LLM Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice and LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. Both programmes offer scholarship opportunities.

LLM Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice
This programme is the only one of its kind in the UK and Ireland. It is delivered by active researchers at both the Jordanstown and Magee campuses, on a full-time (one year) or part-time (two +years) basis, providing excellent flexibility in location and duration of study. The programme will enable you to develop skills highly relevant to legal practice, and to policy, research and advocacy roles.

Modules include:
• Foundations in International Human Rights Law
• Foundations of Transitional Justice
• Gender and Transition
• Policing and Human Rights
• Memory, Transition and Conflict
• Political Violence, ‘Wars on Terror’ and the Law
• International Criminal Justice
• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
• Transitions from Conflict – Law and Politics
• Dissertation Research Methods and Dissertation

LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights
This programme is delivered by active researchers at the Jordanstown campus (near Belfast, Northern Ireland) on a full-time (one year) or part-time (two+ years) basis. The programme will enable you to develop skills highly relevant to legal practice, and to gender policy, research and advocacy roles. Successful completion may also open up a range of further study and research options.

Modules include:
• Gender and Human Rights; Gender and Transition
• Dissertation Research Methods
• Foundations in International Human Rights Law or Foundations of Transitional Justice
• Policing and Human Rights
• Memory, Transition and Conflict
• Political Violence, ‘Wars on Terror’ and the Law
• International Criminal Justice
• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
• Transitions from Conflict-Law and Politics
• Dissertation

Full details on both programmes can be found here.