International Children’s Rights (Advanced LL.M.)
Programme structure
The programme provides an in-depth study of the field of children’s rights, and pays particular attention to how children’s rights laws intersect with other disciplines of law.
Programme outline
International children’s rights is a unique area of law because it is both multi-layered (covering international, regional and national legal systems) and interdisciplinary in its scope.
You will study children’s rights from a comparative perspective, which includes comparisons between international and national children’s rights instruments. You will also look at how children’s rights laws intersect with other disciplines of law, including:
- human rights law
- civil law
- criminal law
- humanitarian law
- family law
- migration law
You will find the programme structure, an overview of the courses and detailed course descriptions in the Prospectus.
Courses
In this programme, you will take the following courses:
- Interaction between Children’s Rights and other International Legal Systems
- Children’s Civil and Political Rights
- Children's Economic and Social Rights
- Child, Family and the State
- Migration and Children’s Rights
- Children in the Justice System
- Children’s rights and Digital Technologies
- Enforcement and Monitoring of Children’s Rights
- Thesis
Full-time or part-time
The majority of students follow the programme full-time for one year, living in the Netherlands. There is an opportunity for European students to study part-time over two years. These students are offered the same facilities and courses as full-time students, and the courses are offered during the day. For students who do not have a status that allows them to live in Europe, the part-time option is not possible because of visa requirements.
For detailed information on the courses and curricula, see the Prospectus. Please note that this guide applies to the current academic year, which means that the curriculum for next year may differ slightly.
Yoshie Noguchi (Switzerland) - former Senior Specialist in Labour Law at the International Labour Organization (ILO)
Guest Lecturer
“I had a great honour and pleasure in giving lectures on child labour to the students at Leiden Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights programme.”
“The lectures, and the visit of the students at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, focused on international labour law, and especially on the ILO standards. The Q&A and discussions with the students turned out extremely rich and stimulating for me – I hope also for the students. Child labour will likely remain among the important international topics in SDGs (target 8.7) as well as in the discourse of global supply chains’ compliance. In addressing child labour in practice, the legal prohibition is only a part of much wider and comprehensive set of policy and action with a holistic approach, reflecting the rights of children. I hope that the reflection on the issue of child labour will help all the students in the programme to gain a different perspective, whatever specific field they take in their career.”