“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
The Human Rights LLM programme at Dundee aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding and appreciation of major issues in contemporary human rights law. The programme is structured around two compulsory taught modules – in addition to the Legal Research Skills module, which is compulsory for all LLM students – and a compulsory Dissertation. The two compulsory taught modules are International Human Rights Law, which introduces students to the law and institutions which exist at international level for the protection and promotion of human rights and examines the protection of a selection of specific rights at both global and regional level; and International & Comparative Human Rights & Civil Liberties, which considers the rule of law and associated concepts as a prelude to looking on a comparative basis at both international and national mechanisms for the protection of human rights and civil liberties.
The compulsory taught modules are supplemented by two optional taught modules. Understanding Human Rights seeks to promote students’ understanding of the concept of human rights by considering its historical development in Western thought and then reflecting on its contemporary black-letter application in the United Kingdom in the light of the work of four major legal and political theorists. Rights in Europe focuses on the two regional legal systems governing and affecting fundamental rights in Europe, namely the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights and their associated institutions. It is open to students to select in place of either or both of the optional taught modules a module from outside the Human Rights cluster (such as Individual Criminal Liability in International Law or Principles of Public International Law). The Dissertation will be of 15,000 words, in a subject directly related to one of the four taught Human Rights modules.
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