The University of Essex ground-breaking LLM Economic, Social and Cultural Rights builds on Essex’s distinctive expertise, reputation and experience of working on the protection of economic, social and cultural rights internationally and domestically in countries around the world.

Essex combines cutting-edge scholarship and practice on the legal aspects of the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, with the latest thinking in the operationalization and implementation of these rights through public policy. The course focuses on: international human rights law protections of economic, social and cultural rights; constitutional and administrative law; how human rights law is operationalized in practice; public policy making; new tools and methodologies for achieving these economic and social rights.