Human Rights Law & Policy
Specialise your studies in the Master of Laws.
The development of human rights law continuously alters how nation-states, governments, individuals and groups interact at the international, regional and domestic levels. Challenges to the standards underlying these laws by states and individuals require informed and robust responses by human rights professionals to ensure their promotion and protection.聽聽
This Master of Laws聽specialisation聽will enable you to acquire expertise in human rights law and the policy context that it operates in. It combines the expertise of human rights academics and practitioners across a range of human rights issues that are of contemporary domestic and international significance. It will expose you to the benefits and limitations of human rights theory and practice.
Knowledge and experience you鈥檒l gain from this聽specialisation
Specialised聽knowledge of international human rights law theory and doctrine and its appropriate application in various settings.
Enhanced skills of legal problem-solving, critical reflection about international human rights laws, analysis of human rights legal texts and documents, and an ability to make informed judgments about their application to current events and legal disputes.聽
Experience in undertaking scholarly research on any issue of international human rights law of your choosing.聽
Increased understanding of the role of international human rights law and the institutions they are mediated through.
Possible career outcomes
National government department policy advisors.聽
Legal officers and policy advisors in national human rights institutions or commissions.聽
Human rights officers,聽advisors聽or聽lawyers in the United Nations and its聽specialised聽agencies, e.g.聽UNICEF, UN Women聽and聽UNDP.
Advisors聽or聽practitioners in international courts and tribunals.聽
Human rights officers,聽advisors聽or聽lawyers in domestic and international NGOs, such as Amnesty, Human Rights Watch聽and聽Oxfam.
Who should study this聽specialisation?
Those with聽professional experience in or聽a focus on:
private legal practice and/or in the public sector, e.g.聽in NGOs, community legal聽centres, government departments and agencies, such as law reform聽and聽legal aid commissions
fields such as international relations, humanitarian studies, development policy, political science聽and聽media studies.
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International opportunities
These overseas electives are available as part of your聽specialisation:
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