LLM (General) – (LL.M.)

Contents

The programmes can be taken either full-time (over a year) or part-time (over two years). The LLM academic year runs from September-September.

Options for the LLM:

* Advanced Equity and Trusts Law (also in two half-subjects: Commercial Trusts Law and Equity and the Home)
* Commercial Trusts Law (half course)
* Equity and the Home (half course)
* Advanced Land Law
* Advanced Medical Negligence
* Alternative Dispute Resolution
* Banking Law
* Challenging Public Power: Advanced Administrative Law
* Commercial Law Written and Oral Advocacy
* Communications Law
* Company Law
* Comparative Class Actions
* Comparative Immigration and Nationality Law
* Comparative Law in non-Western contexts
* Comparative US and EC Anti-trust Law
* Computer Law
* Consent (in contemporary medicine)
* Constitutional Law and Constitutional Rights in the USA
* Contract Law in the European Union
* Corporate Governance
* Courts in Comparative Perspective
* Discrimination Law
* E-commerce Law (replaces Internet law - split between this and Internet Regulation)
* Environmental and Planning Law
* Ethnic Minorities and the law
* EU Financial Law
* EU Justice and Home Affairs
* EU Social Law and Policy
* European Community Competition Law
* European Community Tax Law
* European Internal Market
* Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues
* Global Policy & Economics Of Intellectual Property Law
* Globalisation, International Community and New World Order: Law beyond the Nation State
* Human Rights of Women
* Information Law
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Aspects of Medicine
* Intellectual Property in the Digital Millenium
* International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration
* International and Comparative Competition Law
* International and Comparative Law of Copyright & Related Right
* International and Comparative Social Justice
* International and Comparative Law of Trade Marks, Designs and Unfair Competition
* International and Comparative Trust Law
* International Commercial Law
* International Commercial Litigation - Commercial Conflict of Laws
* International Construction Contracts And Arbitration
* International Criminal Law
* International Environmental Law
* International Law and Development
* International Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force
* International Law of the Sea
* International Law on the Rights of the Child
* International Merger Control
* International Protection of Human Rights
* International Tax Law I
* International Tax Law II
* International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement
* IP Transactions
* Judicial Protection In The EU
* Law of Economic Crime
* Law of Finance and Foreign Investment In Emerging Economies
* Law of Treaties
* Legal Aspects of International Finance
* Legal Problems of International Trade and Intellectual Property Law
* Legal Theory in the Common Law Tradition
* Media Law
* Medical Jurisprudence
* Mental Health Law
* Modern Legal History
* New Medical Technologies and the Law
* Regulation Of Financial Markets
* Remedies in Contract and Tort
* Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions
* Securities Regulation
* Taxation Principles and Concepts
* The Law of Succession
* Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources
* UK Business Taxation
* Youth Justice (half-course)
* The Law on Investment Entities
* UK Competition Law
* Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries
* Climate Change Law and Policy
* International Natural Resources Law
* European Environmental Law
* Environmental Law and Policy (with special reference to the UK)
* EU Immigration Law (Half course 029 Term 1)
* EU Criminal Law (Half course 029 Term 2)
* European and UK Protection of Equality Rights (half option Term 1)
* European and UK Protection of Human Rights at Work (half option Term 2)
* Competition and Regulation of Network Industries: The Legal Regime of Services of General Interest in the EU (half option 2nd term)
* Cyberspace Law (replaces 065 Internet Regulation)
* EU Constitutional Law 1 (half option)
* EU Constitutional Law 11 (half option)

Module requirements for awards

Students are required to take and pass modules to the value of 180 credit points, normally comprising modules to the value of 135 credit points and a 45 credit point dissertation. No more than 90 credit points may be taken in the form of dissertations. All credit points must be at academic level M. The credit value for the dissertation is normally 45 credit points. The dissertation is normally 15,000 words. Additional dissertations of a lower credit point value may be permitted. A candidate who fails to complete modules but has taken the required number (ie registered for them), and who meets the requirements for award, will be classified including the taken but incomplete units.

Advanced standing

A candidate who has completed the postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma of the College, may be admitted to a programme leading to the associated masters' degree with advanced standing to study the elements of the programme that are yet to be completed for the next award, normally a masters' degree. Advanced standing may also be extended to other candidates based on their previous postgraduate or professional studies. Advanced standing may be permitted up to 45 credit points. Advanced standing is granted in each candidate's individual case and is not automatic.

Progression

Students are expected to undertake the prescribed assessment for their taught modules before progressing to their dissertation module(s). Students taking the programme by part-time study will normally attempt courses or dissertations to the value of at least 90 credits in each year of study. A candidate who has met the progression requirement but has failed one or two modules is permitted to resit or retake those failed units in order to improve the mark achieved.

Eligibility for award

To be eligible for the award of LLM a candidate must have:

* Met the requirements for the LLM for which the candidate is registered.
* Met the requirements for the duration of registration.
* Met the requirements for the number of modules to be taken.
* Met the progression requirements where they exist.
* Passed all modules for the taught component of the programme or, for candidates with advanced standing, passed the required number of modules.