Health Care Law and Human Rights – (LL.M.)

The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

On our LLM Health Care Law and Human Rights, you look at health care law, a rapidly expanding discipline as it has to provide a regulatory framework for all issues arising in the context of the provision of health care (eg consent to medical treatment, medical negligence or abortion) and constantly react to novel medical and scientific developments (eg stem cell research or cloning). Human rights law plays a growing role in the regulation and provision of health care, as human rights considerations must be taken into account when deciding how to organise the provision of health care, or when striking a balance between individual rights of patients and conflicting rights of others or societal interests.

Our LLM provides you with an advanced conceptual understanding of the methods, techniques and legal principles regarding health care law and human rights. It is informed by insight based on scholarship at the forefront of the discipline and allows you to set health care law and human rights into its ethical, social and global contexts.