Law and Human Rights

Description

Our four-year LLB Law and Human Rights provides you with training in the discipline of law, with a detailed focus on human rights. We enable you to engage in a discourse on human rights law, informed by thinking on rights from political, sociological, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives.

You are presented with the theoretical foundations, substantive knowledge, and evaluative tools for you to understand, respond to, and help shape national, regional, and international legal and political developments. We develop your critical awareness of the nature of law within its social, political, sociological, philosophical, economic and historical contexts. In addition to compulsory modules, we offer a range of law options, and an additional Legal Skills module in your first year.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our courses are flexibility and choice. In your first year, you usually take four or five modules that include pre-requisite(s) for your course but, in many cases, mean you can try subjects you have not come across before. On our LLB courses, the requirements relating to professional accreditation mean your course content is fairly closely prescribed but there is still some scope for choice after your first year.
We offer a range of optional modules in your second- and final-years and most courses allow you to undertake a final-year project, an individual piece of research on a topic that interests you.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1
Foundations of Human Rights;
Public Law 1;
Legal Skills;
Foundations of the Law of Property;
Criminal Law.

Year 2
Issues and Methods in Human Rights;
Public Law 2;
Jurisprudence 1;
Introduction to Public International Law;
Selected Issues in Public International Law;
Foundations of Obligations; and
Contract.

Year 3
Human Rights Colloquium;
EU Law;
Land Law;
Equity;
Tort;
and one optional module.

Year 4
European Human Rights Law or Protection of Human Rights and Issues in UK Human Rights Law:
and six optional half-year modules.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

A-levels: AAB-ABB, including at least one A-level in a subject that demonstrates essay-writing skills
GCSE English: C
IB: 33-32 points
Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 12 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above)
Other equivalent qualifications may also be accepted.
English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.