LLM Law
Cardiff, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 22,700 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas | for home: £10,450
Introduction
Our Law LLM program allows you to study across the legal spectrum without focusing on one specific area of Law.
It aims to offer you the knowledge and expertise to allow you to contribute more fully to your chosen profession through the development of intellectual competence and postgraduate skills.
You can follow any of the modules available in the year of study from the lists of the specialised LLM programmes, and complete a dissertation.
Why Study this Course
Study a programme designed to give you the greatest flexibility to pursue advanced legal study in any area that you wish.
Contemporary Issues
Gain a general appreciation of a range of current issues in specific areas of law, both domestic and international.
Think Critically
Will stimulate you to take a critical approach to the evaluation of current and proposed regulations.
Undertake in-Depth Research
You will demonstrate advanced knowledge in specific areas of law and join our world-leading research staff.
Customise Your Learning
Benefit from a varied range of modules which allow you to customise the programme to meet your own interests and career goals.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
We are committed to investing up to a total of £500,000 in this high-value competitive scholarship scheme to support UK students who are planning to start an eligible Master’s programme in 2024/25.
The Scholarships are each worth £3,000 and will be awarded in the form of a tuition fee discount.
Eligibility
UK students are eligible to apply for the Scholarship. You normally need to have achieved at least a 2.1 or equivalent in your first degree to be eligible. You need to submit an application to study at Cardiff University and be made an offer to study before your fee status can be confirmed.
Curriculum
The programme is delivered in two stages. Stage One (the taught component) comprises four 30-credit modules from the lists of the specialised LLM programmes. Stage Two comprises the Dissertation.
Two of the Stage One modules will be taught and assessed in the first semester and the remaining two in the second semester. You will progress to the Dissertation upon successful completion of Stage One.
Core Modules for Year One
- Dissertation
Optional Modules for Year One
- Insurance Law
- International Sales Law
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- World Trade Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- The Law of Devolution in Wales
- Constitutionalism and Governance
- Human Rights and Global Justice
- Commercial Arbitration
- Environmental and Climate Change Law
- Law of the Sea
- International Refugee Law and Asylum
- Comparative Commercial Law
- Copyright: Comparative and International Perspectives
- Patents and Trade Secrets: Comparative and International Perspectives
- Trade Marks: Comparative and International Perspectives
- Money Laundering and Financial Crime
- Admiralty Law
- Themes in Socio-Legal Studies
- Carriage of Goods by Sea
- International Energy Law
- International Disability Human Rights Law
- International Investment Law
- International Criminal Law
- Medicine, Law and Society
How Will I Be Assessed?
We make use of both formative and summative assessments.
Formative assessments do not count towards your degree but are designed to give you the opportunity to practice for your summative assessments and enable you and your tutors to assess your progress in your modules. Formative assessments will normally involve written coursework or a class test or may comprise individual student presentations.
Summative assessments count towards your degree. Your marks in these assessments count towards your formal progression from stage one (taught modules) to stage two (the dissertation), and towards the determination of your final award. Summative assessments in stage one will vary by module but will typically involve written coursework (5,000-word essays), unseen examinations or pre-release examinations. The Dissertation (up to 15,000 words) comprises the stage two summative assessment.
Program Outcome
What Skills Will I Practise and Develop?
You are expected to assume a greater responsibility for your education as you undertake your postgraduate studies.
Through the LLM, you will acquire and develop a range of valuable skills, both those which are discipline-specific and more generic employability skills. During the programme, you will be able to extend your communication and presentation skills, both oral and written. You will also be able to develop collaborative skills, take leadership roles and enhance skills of disciplined and independent study.
You will be encouraged to work independently to seek out legal materials for yourself, to read and analyse these materials critically and to present structured and reasoned arguments under the guidance of your tutors and supervisors. You will be provided with training in postgraduate research skills to develop your independent legal analysis, research and writing.
Outside the curriculum, you will have the opportunity to develop wider employability skills through participation in the school’s Law in Action pro-bono schemes run with partner organisations, in which student volunteers assist real people in their dealings with the law. The schemes currently include:
- Law in Justice: the Innocence Project, (dealing with alleged miscarriages of justice)
- Law in Healthcare: the NHS Continuing Healthcare Scheme, (challenges to NHS healthcare funding assessments)
- Law in Sport: the Rugby Union Project – (providing legal advice and legal newsletters to rugby clubs)
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
A law degree doesn’t restrict you to a career within the legal profession and law graduates enter professions as diverse as finance, sales and marketing, digital communications and recruitment.
We are committed to extending extracurricular opportunities to you, helping to enhance your CVs in a competitive graduate job market. We work in partnership with lawyers, charities and voluntary organisations to give you the opportunity to practise and extend your skills and we run several Pro Bono schemes and provide advice to members of the community on different legal issues.
If you successfully complete the LLM programme you may have the opportunity to continue your legal study through the School’s PhD programme or through the Centre for Professional Legal Studies professional programmes (the Legal Practice Course or Bar Professional Training Course).