Full time
1 year
13-JAN-25
LLM - Master of Laws
Law
Taught
Course overview
The LLM enhances your knowledge of the fundamental principles of law, combined with the flexibility to explore your own interests with support from research-active teaching staff. The underlying philosophy of this course is to enable you to continue your professional, educational and personal development by consolidating, enhancing and extending your disciplinary expertise, professional ethics, experience and abilities.
You develop recognized subject-specific knowledge and understanding as well as cognitive, intellectual, practical, professional and generic key skills and qualities. The course enables you to more effectively plan, manage and evaluate your own learning to become an independent lifelong learner. You work with complex knowledge, theory and concepts appropriate to postgraduate study and are required to demonstrate high levels of personal responsibility and self-direction. The LLM course is the result of research carried out by academics and lawyers in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law to develop a programme focusing on the philosophical theories that underpin the law and building on current perspectives in law. It focuses on the underlying legal theories that determine the scope of the existing law and proposals for changes to legislation and the common law. The student-centered nature of assessment across all modules allows you to tailor your studies to your own areas of interest. The LLM course:
Career opportunities
pon 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.
For this course (per year)
£6,710
For this course (per year)
£17,000
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.
Teesside University Middlesbrough is a friendly, modern university located in the heart of North East England. It has a large and vibrant campus, home to more than 22,000 students and includes a community of over 8,000 postgraduates. The university offers a broad portfolio of postgraduate programmes including taught and research degree, as well as continued professional development courses and short courses in a variety of subject areas. It...more
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