The University of Essex Human Rights Centre is one of the world’s oldest and most highly-respected environments for the multi-disciplinary study of human rights. Studying human rights at Essex will enable students to become members of one of the world’s largest, most culturally diverse and professionally successful community of human rights students, practitioners and academics.

Essex’s interdisciplinary course, MA Theory and Practice of Human Rights, examines the history, theoretical development and implementation of human rights. Beyond the practical problems of human rights lie many unresolved theoretical and philosophical issues. These form the basis of this course, which provides students with a solid grounding in fundamental human rights matters within: law, politics, philosophy, and sociology. Studying this course will enable students to undertake practical or legal work for human rights organizations.