Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
This course is ideal if you are looking for a broad selection of law modules that allow you to create your own portfolio of topics to suit your own interests or needs. You can customise your course by choosing from a range of modules taught by our leading academics.
You will be able to choose eight option modules. The choices will enable you to combine one or more modules on different areas of law, including commercial law and human rights law, to meet your specialist interests or niche career plans.
Your LLM degree will equip you with advanced, specialised legal training, and broaden your career options. Our course will be of particular help if you are planning a career in non-specialist legal practice or in widely based legal policy oriented organisations whether commercial, non-governmental organisation or government based.
A good second class degree or an equivalent degree in an appropriate discipline.
Relevant professional experience post-graduation is given due credit in considering entry requirements.
Our Law Fair is held annually and attracts over 40 law firms and other graduate employers.
Two dedicated law careers tutors are on hand to discuss career options, upcoming opportunities and give advice about different firms.
We host a wide range of external speakers every year, representing the whole legal profession.
Core modules:
Dissertation
Option modules
Choose four option modules from:
Civil Dispute Resolution Methods
An Introduction to International Space Law
General Principles of International Law
Intellectual Property Law for International Business
Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Core Principles
Legal Responses to Global Injustice
International Competition Law
International Sales Law
International Commercial Arbitration
Law of the United Nations
The State, Law and Religious Freedoms
Corporate Governance
International Migration and Refugee Law
The Law of International Protection: Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Human Rights and Health Care Law
International Migration and Refugee Law
Health Law 1
Mental Health Law
Inequalities and Health
Bioethics
Justice and the Future
Then choose four option modules from:
Freedom of Expression
Contemporary Challenges in Intellectual Property Law
Commercialising Space
International Banking Law
Company Law
International Investment Law
European Convention on Human Rights
International Law and the Use of Force
Feminist Perspectives on International Law
The Practice of International Commercial Arbitration
International Environmental Law
Autonomy, Capacity and Consent
Health Law II
Advanced Medical Negligence
Health in the workplace
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