L.L.M International Migration and Refugee Law and Policy

Course Overview
The LL.M in International Migration and Refugee Law is the only course of its kind on offer in an Irish university.  This unique program enables students to develop their knowledge of international and regional law, policy and practice as it relates to the phenomena of international migration, human trafficking and refugee law.

Students can combine the study of international migration with specialized modules in international humanitarian law and peace operations, business and human rights, gender and law, child rights, international criminal law, advocacy, activism and strategic litigation, transnational lawyering, post-conflict justice, Islam and human rights.

This programme will be of interest to those who wish to develop specialised legal practice skills in the expanding field of migration and asylum law and human rights.  For those already working in the area of international migration/refugee law, you will develop a more solid conceptual and knowledge base to enhance that role.

Course Highlights:

• The Irish Centre for Human Rights is one of the world’s premier university-based institutions for the study and promotion of human rights.  
• Expert Lecturers deliver program modules.  Our academics are internationally recognized scholars with world-class expertise and strong records of engagement and impact in the fields of international migration, human trafficking, and refugee law. 
• Unique qualification on the practice of migration and refugee law through specialized modules, clinical lawyering and advocacy training.
• Excellent networks and links to leading international organisations and practitioners. 
• Graduates will join a global alumni network of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, with options to pursue careers in the fields of migration, forced displacement, refugee law and policy, and human rights. Students are supported in seeking internship and work placement opportunities and provided with targeted career advice and supports.
• Skills development is enhanced through practice-oriented teaching, allowing students to specialise in oral and written advocacy (legal and policy), strategic litigation, fact-finding and international development and transnational lawyering clinical skills.
• Seminars and workshops with leading international practitioners in migration and refugee law and policy.
• Career Support with targeted career advice and assistance in seeking internship and work placement opportunities.
• Field trips to the Hague and / or Strasbourg to visit leading international law institutions are optional.  
• Assessment is primarily through research papers, presentations and minor thesis rather than exams.

Course Type:- Part-time also Available