Career prospects

The LLM programme in International Human Rights Law will ultimately help prepare graduates for a (legal) career in performing human rights related assignments in governmental or EU institutions and ministries, the UN or other international organisations, non-governmental organisations (such as Amnesty International or Greenpeace), in the international commercial sector, internationally operating enterprises, and academic institutions.

Alumni survey

Below you will see a distribution of the different arenas where past students are currently working. And here you can read about the career paths of our Faculty international graduates, for example a graduate who pursued a PhD.

'Civiel Effect' (for students with Dutch Law-degrees)

To see if this LLM will qualify you for "civiel effect" in the Netherlands, please read here. The information is only available in Dutch since you need to be fluent in Dutch to practice law in the Netherlands.

Career Services

Further, you will have access to the University Career Services and Career Services Law, where you can seek advice about finding and preparing for internships and employment.