This programme is offered at the Irish Centre for Human Rights within the School of Law. This Centre is one of the world’s premier university-based institutions for the study and promotion of human rights and humanitarian law. The LLM in International Criminal Law (ICL) will provide students with an advanced understanding of the history and institutional structures of the various international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court. It will equip students with an in-depth knowledge of the principles of international criminal law and its component crimes and procedural issues, while also allowing them to develop a critical approach to the relationship between other accountability mechanisms, such as truth commissions.

Students who have undertaken and successfully completed the programme tend to fall into one of four categories: those who work within UN or UN-affliated organisations; those who work in NGOs and quasi-NGOs both human rights and development; those who work in academic institutions or pursue a PhD/JD; those who work in diplomatic or government-based work (in the human rights division of the Department of Foreign Affairs, for example).