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M.Phil. Law
Newcastle University
| Application deadline: | Applications are considered throughout the year |
| Start date: | September 2013 |
| Duration full-time: | 12 months |
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| Delivery mode: | On Campus |
| Educational variant: | Part-time, Full-time |
Description
We offer research supervision in the areas given below. It is important to align your research along existing areas of expertise within the Law School.
* Agricultural law
* Commercial law - including franchising, technology transfer, competition law
* Banking law and regulation
* Financial market law and regulation, financial services law
* Credit and secured transactions law
* Company law, corporate finance law and corporate governance
* Charity law and the regulation of the not-for-profit sector.
* Contract law
* Criminal law and criminology
* Environmental law and land use law
* European law
* Family law
* Housing law
* International human rights law
* Legal and political theory
* Intellectual property law
* International refugee law
* Islamic Finance and the law
* Law and ethics
* Law and literature
* Law and religion
* Law and gender
* Legal education
* Legal philosophy
* Medical law
* Planning law
* Property law - including equity and trusts, land law, succession and administration
* Public law - particularly constitutional theory, judicial review
* Public international law
* Taxation and insolvency law
* Terrorism and counter-terrorism law
* Tort law
* WTO and trade law
Contents
Our programmes include intensive subject-specific supervision, training in research methodologies and core skills, and opportunities to participate in research seminars and an annual postgraduate conference.
In addition, our Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate School organises a comprehensive training programme for postgraduate students that covers research techniques, professional/key skills and provides support for personal development.
Requirements
Normally an upper-second-class (2.1) Honours degree, or an international equivalent. Most, but not all, of our applicants hold law degrees, but we also admit many non-law degree holders if their background enables them to benefit from our programmes. Typical backgrounds have included finance, business, politics, accountancy and engineering. Applicants whose first language is not English require IELTS 7.0 overall with at least 6.5 in writing, TOEFL 100 (Internet-based) or 600 (paper-based), or equivalent.
English Language Requirements
| IELTS band: | 7 |
| TOEFL internet-based test score: | 100 |
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