Students begin New Hybrid LL.M. Program in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law
Class Includes Practitioners and Professionals from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2014– The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is pleased to announce the start of the LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (HRHL), welcoming students from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. HRHL is the only program in the United States to offer a hybrid program of its kind in a U.S. law school in the field of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

	HRHL gave students a tour of the online platform used for the course during a live online orientation.

With online and residential courses, this program is designed for practitioners and other professionals who wish to pursue advanced studies in international human rights law and humanitarian law alongside their existing work responsibilities. The LL.M. Program began in January 2015 with the launch of the first of two Human Rights Law online courses—an introductory course on Human Rights Law. Students in the inaugural class bring a variety of NGO, federal, state, and international organization experience in the fields of freedom of expression, immigrants’ rights, and human trafficking to name just a few. The second course on Advanced Human Rights Law will be offered in the Fall.

The Academy will host these new LL.M. students during their first three-week residential summer program in May, as part of the onsite component of the degree program. During the residential summer program, students will interact with world-renowned experts who teach every year in the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

HRHL is designed and coordinated by Professors Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, co-directors of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and professorial lecturers-in-residence, and implemented under the academic direction of Robert K. Goldman, Louis C. James Scholar and professor of law.

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