Hi All,

I have received conditional offers from both QMUL and University of Glasgow for international law. QMUL is offering me immigration and refugee law whereas Glasgow is offering International Law and Security.

I am extremely confused and would love some advice on which university is a better fit.

Thank you!

Hi,

Congratulations!

I guess it all depends on your personal preference and career prospects: these two programs seem to be completely different.

Do you want to focus on IHRL?

Hi,

Congratulations!

I guess it all depends on your personal preference and career prospects: these two programs seem to be completely different.

Do you want to focus on IHRL?

May I ask what are your career prospects? Do you already have a degree in IHRL or do you want to focus on IHRL?

May I ask what are your career prospects? Do you already have a degree in IHRL or do you want to focus on IHRL?

If you still have time then maybe you should apply for actual LL.M.s in IHRL?

Apparently the university of Essex is very good in Human Rights, you should check it out.

An other option could be the Geneva Academy: its main focus is not IHRL, but there is still a fair amount of IHRL - and you could study IHL and IRL. You kind of would have all legal aspects linked to armed conflicts. I think applications for 2017-2018 are over though.

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If you still have time then maybe you should apply for actual LL.M.s in IHRL?

Apparently the university of Essex is very good in Human Rights, you should check it out.

An other option could be the Geneva Academy: its main focus is not IHRL, but there is still a fair amount of IHRL - and you could study IHL and IRL. You kind of would have all legal aspects linked to armed conflicts. I think applications for 2017-2018 are over though.

What is the LL.M. you applied for at Durham?

Regardless of the reputation of these universities, it just seems like the two LL.M.s you talked about are completely different. I ONLY VERY QUICKLY SKIMMED THROUGH SO I MIGHT BE WRONG but International law and security really seems to focus on armed conflicts/security issues. From what I saw it seems like that could be a good program to work for your government or an international organization.

On the other hand, the LL.M. at QMUL seems to really be focused on immigration, and not so much on security issues. I guess that could lead to a position in government/IOs as well, but I would not be surprised if most people would go to NGOs after that.

These programs seem to be very different, so that really depends on what you want to do with your career. As I said, Glasgow seems more focused on armed conflicts/security issues, whereas QMUL seems to be very heavily focused on immigration and "regular" Human Rights issues.

What is the LL.M. you applied for at Durham?

Regardless of the reputation of these universities, it just seems like the two LL.M.s you talked about are completely different. I ONLY VERY QUICKLY SKIMMED THROUGH SO I MIGHT BE WRONG but International law and security really seems to focus on armed conflicts/security issues. From what I saw it seems like that could be a good program to work for your government or an international organization.

On the other hand, the LL.M. at QMUL seems to really be focused on immigration, and not so much on security issues. I guess that could lead to a position in government/IOs as well, but I would not be surprised if most people would go to NGOs after that.

These programs seem to be very different, so that really depends on what you want to do with your career. As I said, Glasgow seems more focused on armed conflicts/security issues, whereas QMUL seems to be very heavily focused on immigration and "regular" Human Rights issues.