Maritime Law LLM

Key information

Gain the key knowledge and vital skills required for a successful career in maritime law with this specialised LLM at The City Law School. Your learning will cover shipping contracts, carriage of goods, admiralty, insurance and commercial arbitration. You can also explore the International Law of the Sea.

Course overview

Benefits of this course

Your learning will have an active emphasis on how the law operates in relation to specific maritime issues. These issues include shipping contracts, insurance, admiralty practice, international sale of goods, and commercial arbitration. You can also explore the International Law of the Sea.

You will learn directly from academics and practitioners with years of extensive experience in the field.

We aim for you to gain greater commercial awareness of the legal principles and rules that impact international transport, especially by sea.

You are likely to benefit from this commercial approach if you work in the maritime and international trade sector, or have an interest in doing so.

Who is this course for?

If you have an interest in legal practice relating to maritime issues, this course is ideal. You may currently be based anywhere in the world and be at any stage of your career.

Our programme is suitable if you aim to develop a career in private commercial practice, or in-house.

City, University of London's Dubai Centre, located in the Dubai International Financial Centre, can offer local support to Maritime Law LLM students based in the region.

Career

This specialist Maritime Law LLM qualification will enhance your prospects for a career in the maritime world.

We aim for you to be well positioned for a legal and non-legal career. You could work:

• in private practice
• in-house at a law firm
• in policy and government
• for a shipping firm, insurer, broker or P&I Club
• in non-governmental organisations
• in a non-legal career involving dispute resolution.

Our graduates have secured work with shipping companies, law firms and P&I Clubs including LATSCO, INCE & CO and American P&I.

We are interested in receiving applications from individuals with at least an upper second-class honours undergraduate degree in law (roughly equivalent to a B or B+) from a recognised international institution. Applicants with a good undergraduate degree in another subject will also be considered.