Admission requirements
Master degree
Description
Individual research project
Course objectives
Following the successful completion of the taught courses of the programme, students are required to submit a thesis on a topic of their choice. It must address and analyse an issue of European and international human rights law and include a comparative perspective. The latter means it has to engage at least two different human rights law systems or elements thereof. More specifically the thesis should *show the student’s ability to conduct academically sound research on a topic in the area of European and international human rights law in a comparative perspective *show the student’s ability to present the findings of this research in writing in a clear and structured way *show the student’s ability to investigate and present relatively new and innovative findings; the thesis should not be merely descriptive.
Assessment method
Examination form(s)
Assessment method(s) and the weighting of each form of assessment towards the final grade
Thesis 100%
Submission procedures
Hardcopy (3x) + via Blackboard (safe submission; including check on plagiarism)
Areas to be tested within the exam
See thesis assessment form.
Contact information Programme Co-ordinator: Ms. Mahshid Alizadeh Leiden University | Leiden Law School | Office for International Education Steenschuur 25 | 2311 ES Leiden | The Netherlands
m.alizadeh@law.leidenuniv.nl | (t) +31 71 527 3593 |