The Centre's Director, Christine Bell, visited the University of Cape Town in March and Professor Wilfried Scharf of the University of Cape Town visited Queen's in April 1999. It is hoped that following these visits the link arrangement will be developed into a full programme over the next three years which will focus on common issues of human rights in post-conflict transformation. In 1999 a total of 13 students graduated from the LLM course, two of them with a Distinction. This is one of the highest numbers to graduate from the LLM course in recent years. The LLM in Human Rights Law began in 1988 and is offered to both full and part-time postgraduate students.
Students participate from many countries around the world in addition to Northern Ireland.
The course is of one year full time or two years part time duration. The LLM in Human Rights Law attracts a range of students, including those actively involved in human rights work in private practice or within government agencies. Top of page Training The Centre, jointly with SLS Publications, has been involved in organising an extensive programme of training on the Human Rights Act for the public sector in Northern Ireland. This has taken the form of a number of one-day seminars involving staff from the Human Rights Centre as well as from the University of Ulster Human Rights and Equality Unit, plus lawyers in private practice in Northern Ireland. All of these seminars were really well attended and received very favourable evaluations from the participants.