The human rights concentration is one of four concentrations offered to LL.M. students through Harvard Law School. This year's LL.M. concentrators come from
eight countries: Eritrea, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
The concentration enables students with a strong interest in human rights to focus their studies and work closely with other students and faculty who share
this interest. The concentration is best suited for those students with either background or interest in human rights scholarship or activism who would like to
deepen their commitment to the field, both from theoretical and practical perspectives.
Participants in the LL.M. Human Rights Concentration enroll in the "year-long" International Law Workshop Seminar (which meets throughout the fall and
spring terms). This seminar is intended to expose students to the range of scholarly writing in international law by bringing to the seminar a cross-section
of scholars engaged in some of the most interesting new work in the field. As part of their participation in the International Law Workshop seminar, concentrators
will also meet separately as a concentration group for two sessions devoted to their writing projects. The seminar requires a paper that will satisfy the 25-page paper requirement for the LL.M. degree. Students wishing to write the long (75-100 pp.) LL.M. paper in conjunction with the seminar will receive an additional two credits.
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