Taught by leading experts in the field, the LLM in International Criminal Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law offers an in-depth knowledge of international criminal law and procedure, and international humanitarian law. It will equip you to practice international criminal law before international tribunals or national courts.
This one-year program is based at the School of Law, but as a student you’ll have the option to take your second semester at an international tribunal.
Requirements for the LLM in International Criminal Law
To complete this degree track, you must earn 24 credits: 11 credits of required courses and another 13 credits of electives.
Required courses are:
- International Criminal Law and Procedure (3 credits)
- U.S. Contract Law for LLM (3 credits)
- Foreign Graduate Seminar (2 credits)
- U.S. Legal Research, Writing and Analysis (3 credits)
Elective courses can include any of the following classes:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Basic Mediation Training
- Conflict of Laws
- Counterterrorism Law
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure I
- Criminal Procedure II
- Death Penalty Law and Process
- Death Penalty Lab I & II
- Evidence
- Immigration Law
- Immigration Law II: Asylum and Refugee
- International Arbitration
- International Human Rights Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Law
- International Law Research Lab
- Immigration Law
- Mediation Representation
- Nonprofit Organizations Law
- Pretrial Practice: Criminal
- Prisoner Rights & Litigation
- Professional Responsibility for LLMs
- Psychiatry and the Law
- Scientific Evidence in Criminal Litigation
- U.S. Scholarly Legal Writing
- War and Morality
- White Collar Crime