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Master of Laws - LLM
Colchester Campus
Full Time
Jan 2027
1 Year
This one-year general LLM Law offers unparalleled flexibility, empowering to take control of the education and curate a bespoke curriculum drawn from across extensive range of postgraduate law modules.You will have the freedom to design a course that aligns exactly with your intellectual curiosity and professional goals. Whether you want to explore the intersections of international commercial law and human rights, or combine modules on artificial intelligence, environmental law, and international criminal law, you can build a versatile and interdisciplinary foundation for your career.Taught within the vibrant, research-intensive Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre by world-leading academics and expert practitioners, you will engage with cutting-edge legal debates. By building a diverse, adaptable skill set, you will graduate as a versatile legal thinker, ready to meet the evolving demands of modern employers across legal practice, NGOs, policymaking, or further academic research.
This module is a compulsory module for LLM students and is designed to support the development of academic skills required for postgraduate legal study. It focuses on legal research, use of sources, academic referencing, and written analysis. You work with a range of legal materials and develop your ability to engage with scholarship, respond to essay and problem questions, and produce independent written work at a postgraduate level. The module also includes a formative foundation essay, giving you an early opportunity to practise postgraduate writing and receive feedback to support your progress across the degree.
You’ll undertake a dissertation of 12,000 words in length for your LLM course. This is a compulsory element of the course.
