(LL.M) Human Rights programme at University of Hong Kong, 2011-2012
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Accepting applications for the Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights programme, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, 2011-2012

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong.

We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for our Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights Programme for the academic year 2011-2012.

The programme was established in 1999 to meet the increasing demand for practical and theoretical knowledge about human rights throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Its goals are to equip students with a thorough understanding of the relevant international, regional and domestic human rights norms and mechanisms and how to use them effectively. Teaching focuses on substantive and procedural law as it relates to human rights, but also draws on international relations, history, politics, philosophy, sociology and other disciplines to provide a contextual grounding. While the programme encompasses human rights developments around the world, it pays close attention to issues of particular significance in Asia.

More information about the programme is available at: http://www.hku.hk/law/download/HR.pdf and applications can be submitted via an on-line application system:
http://www.asa.hku.hk/admissions/tpg .

A limited number of scholarships are available for qualified students from the Asian region with strong human rights backgrounds. Scholarship information and application forms are available at:
http://www.hku.hk/ccpl/human_rights/HRScholarships.html .

To graduate, students must complete three compulsory courses and five elective modules. Compulsory courses include:

Human Rights: History, Theory and Politics considers human rights in historical, theoretical and political contexts, and uses some of the key issues in human rights today to illustrate the powerful influences that have shaped how we think of and act on human rights.

International and Regional Protection of Human Rights deals with the role and functions of international human rights law through the UN human rights system, the African, Inter-American and European Convention systems.

National Protection of Human Rights examines the domestic protection of human rights in constitutional, statutory and administrative frameworks and considers the important role that national human rights commissions and other domestic implementation bodies play; it looks, among other topics, at how international and regional standards are or can be reflected in national laws and policies.

Optional courses in recent years have included:

- Business and Human Rights
- Clinical Legal Education Course (Refugee Stream)
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Corruption in China: Comparative Perspective
- Current Issues in Human Rights
- Dealing with Legacies of Human Rights Violations
- Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Equality and Non-discrimination
- Ethnicity, Human Rights and Democracy
- Human Rights and Governance
- Human Rights in China
- Human Rights in Cyberspace
- Human Rights in Hong Kong
- Human Rights Research, Sources and Methodology
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons
- Multiculturalism and the Law
- Public International Law
- Rights and Remedies in the Criminal Process
- The Rights of the Child in International and Domestic Law

Kelley Loper
Director, Master of Laws (LL.M) in Human Rights Programme
Faculty of Law
The University of Hong Kong
[email protected]