Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Entry requirements

Please visit the University of Essex website for entry requirement information.

Months of entry

October

Course content

In our current global economic crisis, are you concerned about the impacts of austerity measures on economic, social and cultural rights? Are you interested in public policies – on health, education, housing or food security – and how human rights can make a difference?

Our ground-breaking LLM Economic, Social and Cultural Rights builds on our distinctive expertise, reputation and experience of working on the protection of economic, social and cultural rights internationally and domestically in countries around the world.

Our LLM Economic, Social and Cultural Rights combines cutting-edge scholarship and practice on the legal aspects of the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights, with the latest thinking in the operationalisation and implementation of these rights through public policy. The course focuses on:

• International human rights law protections of economic, social and cultural rights
• Constitutional and administrative law
• How human rights law is operationalised in practice
• Public policy making
• New tools and methodologies for achieving these economic and social rights.

We include a range of key law courses to enable our non-law students to develop an understanding of public international, constitutional and administrative law. At Essex we specialise in commercial law, public law, and human rights law.