International Law and Human Rights

With increasing globalization, distinctions between the domestic and the international fade. Numerous regulatory decisions, once decided domestically, are influenced, even shaped, by international institutions and international law.  These processes have an impact on Israel and the entire Middle East region. Israel, is particularly exposed to the forces of globalization, being open to international trade and subject to scrutiny by external actors regarding its policies.  Israel is also a major contributor to the evolution of international law mainly through the sophisticated and groundbreaking decisions of the Supreme Court that resonate throughout the world and command attention and respect.  Israeli scholarship on international law stands at the cutting edge of the study of international law and is widely respected.

The goal of the International Law & Human Rights Track is to provide students with tools that will enable them to identify and explore the emerging global regulatory regimes in the fields of human rights and humanitarian law, environmental and cultural heritage protection, trade and investment regulation, and other fields.  As well as to assess the normative challenges that these regime pose to our democratic sensibilities and reflect on the possibilities for shaping these global institutions and their policies through accountability requirements of transparency, participation, reason-giving, liability, and judicial review.  This track is therefore attractive not only to students interested in international law but also to those whose passion is constitutional law and administrative law and those who wish to gain the tools to address problems of public law and policy in an era of global interdependency.

• Seminar - Labor Approach to Human Trafficking
• Workshop - International Law 
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• The American Approach to Religious Freedom: History and Law
• Human Rights and their Critics
• International Intellectual Property Law
• Welfare State: Philosophy, Politics and Law
• International Legal Perspectives on the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict

*Please be aware courses and professors change each year. 

• CV/Resume
• Law degree transcript(s) & diploma(s)
  Transcripts must show all courses and grades obtained, and should be submitted with the corresponding diploma. Please provide a letter from your law school indicating your individual rank in your class, if available.
  Transcripts may have to be officially translated at the applicant's expense to be reviewed by the Registrar's Office. 
• Law school ranking
  If available, please ask your law school to provide a letter indicating your individual law school ranking.
• Personal Statement (essay)
  Your personal statement should be no more than 500 words and should describe your background, your academic or professional interests and goals, and your motivation to study in the International LL.M program. 
• Two letters of recommendation
  Recommendation letters should written by law professors or legal employment supervisors. 
• TOEFL or IELTS score
  An English-language proficiency exam must be taken before July 1 and official scores must be sent directly to the TAU International office by the testing agency. TAU International's ETS code is 7704. TOEFL test minimum scores: written 582, computer-based 223, or internet-based 89. The minimum overall bandwith score for the IELTS test is 7. Exemptions may be granted - please inquire with the Admissions Director.  
• Completed online application form
  Make sure to complete the program-related questions on the application portal.
• $150 application fee

Financial aid / scholarships will be offered to promising candidates according to needs or academic qualifications, and in order to promote diversity.