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LLM - Master of Laws
Main Campus
Part Time
Sep 2026
2 Year
A cutting-edge and intellectually demanding programme, the LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice will equip you with an advanced knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and theories underpinning criminal law and criminal justice and how they operate in practice. The programme covers the following core areas:current issues in criminal law and criminal justicefundamental principles of substantive and procedural criminal lawcriminalisationinternational, transnational, and European criminal lawsexual offendingglobal crime and insecuritysentencing and the penal processDifferent approaches to understanding and critiquing criminal law and criminal justice, including:doctrinalcomparativetheoreticalsocio-legal methodsThe programme is suitable for those who have studied law or a related subject at undergraduate level and wish to develop a specialist understanding of criminal law and criminal justice.
