Key facts

Types	Online and Distance Learning Oxford Qualification - Part-time
Subject area(s)	Human Rights Law
Fees	See Fees and Funding section of main website
Application status	Closed to new applications
Application deadline	Fri 09 March 2012
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email iphumrts@conted.ox.ac.uk.

Overview

Welcome to the Master's programme in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. This is a part-time degree offered over two academic years. It involves two periods of distance learning via the internet as well as two summer sessions held at New College, Oxford. The degree programme is designed in particular for lawyers and other human rights professionals who wish to pursue advanced studies in international human rights law but may need to do so alongside their work or family responsibilities.

The aim of the degree programme is to train and support future leaders in the field of international human rights law. A central objective of the course is to ensure that participants not only know but can also use human rights law. The curriculum places roughly equal emphasis on the substance of human rights law, its implementation, and the development of human rights advocacy skills.

Announcement: The Commonwealth Scholarship Fund and the Foreign Office’s Chevening Scholarship Fund have recently announced that they will jointly pay for five new scholarships for candidates from African Commonwealth countries to study on the MSt in International Human Rights Law, starting September 2012. The awards are intended for human rights advocates from African Commonwealth countries who would be unable, without assistance, to take up their place on the course. They provide course and college fees over two years, a stipend to cover living costs and return air travel from the scholar’s home country for each residential session.

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