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MA by Research in Law, M.A.
Queen Mary, University of London, Masters Programmes
- International Law
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| Country: | United Kingdom | Duration: | 12 Months |
| City: | London | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English |
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Programme Description
The MA Research offers students a structured one year research programme within which they can explore individually supervised research on topics of their own choice, whilst following taught classes in Research Methods covering theory and methodology.
The Programme is ideal for students wishing to proceed to doctoral study, or for students wishing to enhance their career prospects by developing expertise in a specific area of law. Theoretical and inter-disciplinary, as well as more practical and traditional approaches, are all accommodated in this programme.
For applicants interested in non-commercial law, the School of Law has well-known strengths in areas such as legal theory, legal history, international law, human rights, migration law, property law, European law, Company law, comparative law, family law, medical law, criminal law and criminology, comparative law, constitutional law, and any number of areas of traditional public and private law.
From September 2007, students interested in pursuing the MA Research in commercial areas of law, for which Queen Mary´s Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) is internationally renowned, can apply. Areas include: Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Communications, Development, EU, Intellectual Property, IT, Media and Tax.
MA Research students are regarded as full members of the School´s research community, and are encouraged to attend the staff seminars which are scheduled throughout the year
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The Programme is available on both a one year full time and two-year part time basis. All students enrolled in this programme will undertake supervised research with a view to submitting a 20,000 word dissertation by the end of the year. Students whose thesis receive a mark of 65% or above for their thesis are eligible to progress into the PhD program (subject to the availability of a suitable supervisor).
Students will also attend a Research Methods course which will expose them to a broad range of theoretical and practical approaches to legal research. This course will be taught through one 2 hour seminar each week.
In the first term the course covers theoretical topics including Ethics and Law, Law and Economics, Systems theory, Liberal theory, and Critical Theory.
In the second term, the course has a methods focus and covers areas such as research interviews, literature review and historical research methods. These second-term seminars will, so far as is possible, be tailored to the dissertations of enrolled students.
The Law Department has a limited number of bursaries available to postgraduate students.
The course is assessed by two 2500 word essays. The course entitled `Theory and Method in Legal Scholarship´ accounts for 25 per cent of the final grade and the final dissertation accounts for 75 per cent of the final grade.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
A minimum of an upper-second class honours degree or an equivalent qualification from an overseas University.
We welcome applications from anyone interested in pursuing a research project in a very specific area of the law, for example contract, criminal, banking or IP regulations for which a law degree would be necessary or a legal aspect of another academic or professional discipline for instance -judiciary, politics, history, philosophy, literature, economics, medicine, theology, journalism, or other social, natural or human sciences, for which a related but non-law degree would be acceptable.
English Language Qualifications
Non-native English speakers will be required to have achieved minimum
IELTS 7.0 or above or equivalent.
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