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This new LL.M. programme which will be run jointly by the Faculty of Law, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, and the Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, is a unique challenge for those participating in it as well as for the host institutions.
The programme, which will be offered in English only, aims at providing in-depth knowledge about child law from a comparative perspective. It is not limited to substantive classes on the private, public and criminal law aspects of child law. However, it also includes classes in methodology.
Students, on the basis of their academic career so far and on the basis of their professional experience will be trained in comparative and international child and family law. In addition to core subjects, the programme includes insights into child-related aspects of social security (health, education, etc.) as well as presenting legal approaches to deal with effects of migration upon children and families.
The programme will also touch upon juvenile criminal justice. Finally, our comparative approach is well embedded in a human rights context which takes into account the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as child-related provisions of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights and of the 1981 African Charter on Human and People's Rights.
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