LLM in Law (General) University of Dundee

This course allows you to build your own personalised LLM by choosing from our wide range of specialist modules, meaning you can study areas that interest you.

We offer a wide variety of law modules in different specialist areas. There are options in:

• corporate law
• competition
• banking
• trade law
• investment law
• intellectual property
• e-commerce
• environmental law
• climate change
• water law
• international law
• human rights law
• international criminal justice
• international security
• transnational crime

As well as specialisms delivered by our staff, there are options in oil and gas or energy law (from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy). You can also choose from business, politics and international relations.

Students often combine topics from different areas. For example, you might want to combine an understanding of corporate and commercial law with environmental law or to combine an understanding of security with international criminal justice.

This wide choice allows you to develop existing areas of specialism or to expand your knowledge into new areas of law that you have not studied or practised before.

Pagoda Projects Internships

Law students can apply for a global internship with Pagoda Projects to develop employability skills and gain valuable international work experience.

Teaching

We offer an induction programme in legal research skills at the start of each semester. This ensures that you understand the UK and European legal systems and can find and use the resources that you will need. You will also learn what is required of you in a study environment where you may be learning more independently than previously.

Most of your teaching will be in student-led seminars where you will read extensively in advance, and discussion will be facilitated by the lecturer. Sometimes there will be a lecture component, e.g. at the start of the class, to structure the discussion.

All our modules are delivered by experts in their field. Guest lecturers may also visit, either within modules or as a separate event. We offer a wide variety of external activities, including a residential study trip for all students.

You will devise, research, and write a dissertation in the summer, which will consider a question relevant to the subjects you are studying. This will let you demonstrate your research skills, and there will be classes to help you prepare for this.

Assessment

You will be assessed mainly through a combination of exams and essays, reports or other written coursework. Some of our modules have exams, and some have essays, but whatever form of assessment is used, there will be a formative ‘practice’ assessment early in the semester to gauge your progress and identify ways to improve.

Your dissertation is assessed wholly on the basis of the final text that is submitted.

Our Legal Research Skills module, which runs in two blocks at the start of each semester, is assessed by a short essay (in your first block) and a group article and presentation (in your second block).

Core Modules

These modules are an essential part of your course.

• Masters Dissertation (LW50107)
• Legal Research Skills (LW50108)

Optional Modules

You need to choose one or more of these modules as part of your course.

Entrants to LLM courses usually fall into one of four categories:

• they are professionals, often working in legal practice, and they want to increase their qualifications and specialisms in order to enhance their career prospects
• they are looking for a change of career or a change of specialism
• they want to complete their education
• they are considering an academic career

The flexibility of the LLM (General) has meant that graduates have gone on to pursue careers in all aspects of the legal profession, from private practice, or as in-house counsel, to working for governments or NGOs, as well as PhD study and academia.