Advanced Master in Human Rights (shift schedule)

The law faculties at UCLouvain (Saint-Louis Bruxelles and Louvain-la-Neuve), Université de Namur and Université libre de Bruxelles offer a joint advanced master's degree in human rights. In addition to its primarily legal scope, this advanced master's degree was also developed in an interdisciplinary perspective. It aims to provide students with specialised knowledge in the field of human rights, at both domestic and international level. In its legal aspects, this advanced master's degree deals with the human rights provisions guaranteed not only by international jurisdictions and institutions but also by state laws. In its interdisciplinary aspects, this master's degree aims to provide students with knowledge from other fields of the humanities (history, philosophy, sociology) in order to better understand and implement this protection of human rights. Classes are taught in French, which is also the language of most course materials. A strong command of this language is therefore required. Passive knowledge of English is also necessary in order to be able to read certain related documents. Programme governance and administration The advisory council of the advanced master's degree is composed of all those involved in teaching the programme. The board is made up of professors Olivier De Schutter (UCLouvain Louvain-la-Neuve), Cécile de Terwangne (UNamur), Jogchum Vrielink (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Olivier Corten (ULB) and Julie Ringelheim (UCLouvain Louvain-la-Neuve) (chairwoman of the advanced master's degree), and acts as an admissions committee.