Laws (LLM)
Southampton, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Aug 2024*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 24,200 **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for UK | other countries, China: 29 July 2024
** for EU and international student | UK students: GBP 9,250
Introduction
Customise your degree to suit your law interests and tackle the latest legal problems on this LLM Master of Laws. Choose modules across areas like commercial, corporate and human rights law.
Learn from our research-active team, who are at the forefront of global legal reform and development. Gain the knowledge and practical skills to pursue a wide range of legal and non-legal careers.
On this flexible master’s in law, you'll start with a week-long introductory course on common law to understand the way this important legal system works.
From here you’ll develop your legal skills to take on complex issues arising from practical scenarios. You’ll learn how to advise, litigate and negotiate. You'll learn to understand the legal frameworks that underpin your areas of interest.
During the taught element of the course you choose the modules you’d like to study to match your career plans. They might include:
- International Law of the Sea
- Marine Insurance
- Principles of Commercial Arbitration
- Intellectual Property Law in a Global World
- Corporate Governance
- Human Rights in Context
- Armed Conflict in International Law
- Free Speech and Privacy on the Internet
Our high-profile advisory and law reform work, along with our internationally recognised research, brings the latest legal developments to your learning.
Admissions
Curriculum
The full-time version of this postgraduate law degree is taken in 1 year.
The course includes campus-based taught learning and a dissertation. You’ll complete your taught modules between October and June. From June to September you’ll complete a supervised dissertation on a topic of your choosing.
Modules
The modules outlined provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. As a research-led University, we undertake a continuous review of our course to ensure quality enhancement and to manage our resources. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.
Year 1
You must choose your modules from the following modules in year 1:
- Admiralty Law: Enforcement of Maritime Claims
- Admiralty Law: Principles and Liabilities
- Artificial Intelligence Regulation: Theory and Practice
- Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property LawContemporary Issues in Refugee Law
- Corporate Governance
- Data Governance and Digital Technologies
- Human Rights and Global Justice
- Insurance Law
- Intellectual Property Law in a Global World
- International Commercial Litigation
- International Competition Law and Policy
- International Criminal Justice
- International Environmental Law
- International Law, Globalisation and the Individual
- International Sale of Goods
- Law of the World Trade Organization
- Marine Environmental Law
- Marine Insurance: Cover and Practice
- Marine Insurance: Law and Principles
- Navigational Law and Practice
- Principles of Commercial Arbitration
- Regional Human Rights Frameworks
- Ship Finance
- The Law on Bills of Lading
- The Law on Charterparties
Year 2
You must study the following module in year 2:
- Dissertation
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Depending on your choice of modules, you could choose to become a solicitor or barrister.
You can use your legal knowledge in the insurance, financial, banking or commercial sector. You could work within a commodity house, shipping company, government body or protection and indemnity club.
Our graduates enjoy careers all over the world, in law firms and companies including:
- Ince and Co
- Hogan Lovells
- Campbell Johnston Clark Ltd
- Holman Fenwick & Willan
- PSP Law Linklaters LLP
- Interport Maritime Ltd
- Van Traa
You’ll have the chance to meet high-profile organisations and law firms at our law careers fair.
Explore our LLM careers brochure. You’ll find information on:
- Typical Job Opportunities
- How to Qualify as a Barrister or Solicitor in England and Wales
- Useful Resources
This degree is also excellent preparation for further study at PhD level.
Program delivery
You’ll learn through a range of teaching and learning methods that may include:
- Small-group Teaching
- Seminars
- Tutorials
- Debates
- Presentations
- Simulated Court Hearings (Moots)
- Clause Drafting
- Public Consultation Response Preparation
- Exploring Conventions and Their Legal Implications
The LLM Challenge offers an extra learning experience. Students across all our LLM courses are assigned to a team and given a current topic to debate to compete for a monetary prize. The LLM Challenge helps you develop your collaborative working and leadership skills.
Assessment
We’ll feedback on your work during class to help you to identify your strengths and understand where you can improve.
Formal assessment varies by module and includes exams and coursework, as well as your dissertation.