Admission

Your complete application file should include: 

• A completed and signed application (online version) / application (Word version)
  
• A current resume (curriculum vitae)
• Personal Statement
• Official transcripts from all college/university and/or certified foreign diplomas or certificates sent directly to St. Thomas University School of Law, LL.M. Program in Intercultural Human Rights. All foreign diplomas and transcripts should be translated in English and certified or notarized. All foreign credentials must be evaluated by an approved agency in the U.S. We recommend World Education Services or Josef Silney & Associates.
• Two recommendation letters, preferably one from your present employer and one from your professor
• Two passport size photos [optional at this stage]
• Interview in person or conference call
• Application fee of $50 

Please click here for further information about the application process.

Application

Your complete application file should include: 

• A completed and signed application (online version) / application (Word version)
  
• A current resume (curriculum vitae)
• Personal Statement
• Official transcripts from all college/university and/or certified foreign diplomas or certificates sent directly to St. Thomas University School of Law, LL.M. Program in Intercultural Human Rights. All foreign diplomas and transcripts should be translated in English and certified or notarized. All foreign credentials must be evaluated by an approved agency in the U.S. We recommend World Education Services or Josef Silney & Associates.
• Two recommendation letters, preferably one from your present employer and one from your professor
• Two passport size photos [optional at this stage]
• Interview in person or conference call
• Application fee of $50 

Please click here for further information about the application process.

Program

• Introduction to human rights law
• Human rights and religion
• The protection of refugees
• Ethical moorings: philosophical and religious foundations of human rights
  
• The covenant of civil and political rights: the scope of the rights and the role of the Human Rights Committee
• Human rights and terrorism
• Human rights lawyering
• justiciability of economics, social and cultural rights
• International criminal law
• Regional system of human rights protection Inter-American / African / European systems)
• Human rights and the environment
• international economic law and human rights
• Women's rights and rights of the child
• Humanitarian law
• IRH thesis

Please click here for further information about the courses. 

Program

• Introduction to human rights law
• Human rights and religion
• The protection of refugees
• Ethical moorings: philosophical and religious foundations of human rights
  
• The covenant of civil and political rights: the scope of the rights and the role of the Human Rights Committee
• Human rights and terrorism
• Human rights lawyering
• justiciability of economics, social and cultural rights
• International criminal law
• Regional system of human rights protection Inter-American / African / European systems)
• Human rights and the environment
• international economic law and human rights
• Women's rights and rights of the child
• Humanitarian law
• IRH thesis

Please click here for further information about the courses.