Introduction:
100% of NTU's research submitted to the Law Unit of Assessment was assessed to be world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of research impact (REF 2021).
Nottingham Law School has significant academic expertise in the areas of human rights. The course parallels the historical and contemporary significance of these aspects of law, in particular their growth as topics of both domestic and international importance over recent decades.
Why choose this course?
- Study the key international principles in human rights law that may influence the development of policy.
- Explore expressive rights such as the freedom of religion, politics and art.
- Benefit from strong links to our Centre for Rights and Justice
- Study full-time or part-time.
- Attend an International Summer School and explore Law from a European perspective.
- Scholarships available.
- Individual modules can be studied for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) awards. Contact us for details.
Careers and employability
Your future career
Career development is an integral part of the programme and our careers team run a series of workshops where you can identify methods and strategies to enable you to pursue your career goals.
Due to the School's excellent reputation within the legal profession, our graduates are highly sought-after and recognised for the depth and relevance of their knowledge.
Continuing professional development (CPD)
Practitioners can study individual modules from the LLM programme for CPD awards.
Nottingham Law School offers a suite of practice-based practitioner programmes specifically designed to meet the personal development needs of legal practitioners. We offer courses that qualify for CPD with the Solicitors Regulation Authority, in-house training and bespoke programmes. These courses are highly flexible and can be delivered throughout the year both nationally and internationally.
While this course does not currently offer placements we do encourage our students to pursue placement opportunities.
Course modulesCore module
- Human Rights
* Scholarships available for international students.

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