Designed to allow you to make choices aligned to your individual career aspirations, while developing expertise in human rights, a fast paced and increasingly significant area of law.
Develop knowledge and understanding of fundamental legal principles and contemporary issues through innovative and authentic learning, teaching and assessment methods.
Top reasons to study this course:
A 2.2 (minimum) honours degree in a legal or related discipline or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience. Equivalent qualifications include, for example CiLEX, or level 6 equivalent law degrees from other jurisdictions, and equivalent experience includes work involving regulatory compliance.
Upon graduation you will have developed recognised subject-specific knowledge and understanding, cognitive, intellectual, practical, professional and generic key skills and qualities, which have a directly beneficial effect on future employability, whether in the legal profession or in subject-related disciplines, including academia. You will be equipped to contribute to and inform policy-making decisions in your chosen sphere.
A number of our previous students have published work in academic journals, and / or have progressed to PhD study.
Course details
Course structure
Core modules
Advanced Issues in Law (Domestic and Global)
Law, Rights and Society
Legal Research for Postgraduate Writing
LLM Dissertation
and one optional module
Human Rights in Criminal Law and Criminal Evidence
Investigation of Organised Crime
Law Clinic
Reimagining Sustainable Management in Global Markets
Modules offered may vary.
At Teesside University we believe that an investment in knowledge still pays the best return. By developing your skills, expertise, experience and net...