Overview

Human Rights have become a significant part of the legal order of the European Union, accompanied with an ever growing social need for better protection. Internationally agreed human rights principles and standards now also increasingly influence economic policy formation.

Key Features

Constantly ranked in the top tier of Law Schools in Central-Europe, the Faculty of Law, ELTE launches a program in European Human Rights to bring together leading scholars, lawyers and policy makers. Starting from 2016 September, our European Human Rights program focuses on complex and creative problem solving in the field of human rights law and wishes to enable students to take new approaches in human rights litigation on various European fora.

Globalisation has prompted interest in deepening understanding of the relationship between human rights and traditional areas of law. Important efforts have already been made by various international organisations to disentangle the links between ethics, human rights, development and economics.

Human rights advocates can bring rights-based approach not only to strive for higher level protection, but also to bring about better economic and developmental results, thereby instrumentalising human rights values and concepts.

The European Human Rights program at Eötvös Loránd University provides a vibrant, international environment where participants work under the supervision of internationally recognized experts. After graduation they will be able to confidently deliver legal solutions to multifaceted human rights issues or create tailor-made prevention tools to avoid human rights abuses.

The leading scholars seek to foster an encouraging learning environment to support legal professionals who are frequently facing new challenges.

Career opportunities

The distinguished program prepares students for outstanding careers in human rights litigation practices, government, academia, business, public policy, international and local NGOs.

Students successfully graduated from the program will be entitled to use an LL.M. title according to the regulations of Act on National Tertiary Education of Hungary. (Act No CCIV of 2011).

Job examples

Lawyer specialized in human rights

Legal expert of human rights

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Human Rights Protection - General Overview and Criticial Approaches

The Operational Mechanisms of the European Union and its Importance for Human Rights Protection

English Legal Writing

Human Rights Instruments of the Council of Europe and their enforcement mechanisms

Comparative Analysis of the National Constitutional Mechanisms of Human Rights Protection

Sociology of Human Rights

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-06-30 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

60 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Budapest, Hungary

Disciplines

European Law View 8 other Masters in European Law in Hungary

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants have to be in the possession of a Master level legal degree as this is a second master program.

Minimum level of language proficiency (oral) (A1-C2): B2

Minimum level of language proficiency (written) (A1-C2): B2

Motivation letter

Language certificate

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

2000 EUR / year

≈ 2000 EUR / year
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EU/EEA Nationals

2000 EUR / year

≈ 2000 EUR / year

Living costs

Budapest

Hungary

172338 - 268251 HUF / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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