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Full time | The University of Edinburgh | 1 year | 09-SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

09-SEP-24

Key information
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Qualification type

LLM - Master of Laws

Subject areas

Law

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Programme description

This general LLM programme is the ideal choice for students wishing to expose themselves to diverse areas of advanced legal scholarship. We offer a very wide range of specialist courses, many taught by internationally recognised experts in their fields, and legal and industry professionals.

You will select courses from across the School’s key research and teaching fields, including: commercial law; criminal law; criminology; EU law; IP, media and technology law international law; legal history and legal theory; medical law; private law; public law.

This structure ensures you can pursue a truly diverse and challenging curriculum through which you will be able to develop a broad expertise in cutting-edge legal scholarship.

Career opportunities

The LLM in Law is an excellent way to identify and develop a legal specialism for a career in legal practice or academic research.

Many recent graduates have used the programme as a platform for further study. Others who are professionally qualified are now working as attorneys, lawyers, legal advisers and specialists, financial analysts and tax associates for organisations including Deloitte, The Royal Bank of Scotland, the Brooklyn Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Japan.

Modules

An independent piece of research and analysis of up to 10,000 words on an agreed topic within the field. The dissertation is an extended piece of scholarship in which a student is expected to formulate and sustain a substantive piece of research and is expected to engage critically and analytically with the literature in the field, building upon relevant concepts and theories covered in the taught element of the programme.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£15,200

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£27,300

Entry requirements

A minimum UK 2:1 honours degree from a UK university, or its international equivalent, in law. We will also consider candidates with a degree in a related discipline which includes relevant prior study.