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LLM Master of Law

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 10 months 2 academic years 5 academic years

Top Reasons To Study

  1. Study at UCL, one of the world's best law schools, located in the heart of legal London for unmatched professional opportunities.
  2. Complete the intensive 10-month LLM program to fast-track your legal career and gain a competitive edge in the job market.
  3. Benefit from research-led teaching by world-leading academics and practitioners, ensuring relevant and cutting-edge legal knowledge.
  4. Customize your learning experience with a wide range of specialist modules and flexible study options including part-time and modular pathways.
  5. Join a global community of ambitious graduate students and enhance your professional profile through mooting, debating, and pro bono activities.

Masters Degree Description

Our generalist Master of Laws (LLM) degree offers a broad and flexible legal education, taught in the heart of London by world-leading academics and practitioners.

Overview

Join a global community of the brightest and most ambitious graduate students at one of the world’s best Law schools. Located in the heart of legal London, our 10-month LLM programme provides students with strong foundations to develop their legal expertise in specialist subject areas. Our shorter study period enables students to fast-track their career and gain a competitive edge in the job market. For those already in practice or with other responsibilities, there is the option to study part-time over two years (10 month each), or a modular/flexible option in which students will have up to five years (10 months each) to complete their degree.

Taught by leading experts, our research-led teaching ensures that what you learn is relevant in any jurisdiction. We offer a wide range of modules, including commercial and corporate law, human rights law, global health governance, environmental law, intellectual property, and legal history. Whether you wish to explore your intellectual interests freely or specialise in a particular area of legal research, UCL Laws provides the flexibility you need.

Entry Requirements

Entrants to the UCL LLM must have ‘a good 2.1 with evidence of 1st class ability’ (or equivalent in other jurisdictions), and must provide evidence in their application of motivation, reasoning and analytical ability and communication skills.

'A good 2.1’ shall normally mean an average of at least 65% (or equivalent in other jurisdictions) across all years of study, and ‘evidence of 1st class ability’ shall normally mean at least one 1st class mark (or equivalent in other jurisdictions) over the entire degree.

We may be willing to consider applicants who are close to, but do not meet these quantitative criteria, where space on the programme allows. Such applicants must demonstrate that they excel in motivation, analytical and reasoning ability and communication skills. This needs to be demonstrated across the personal statement and the written work. Applicants with less than an average of 62% (or equivalent in other jurisdictions) across all years of study, will not normally be considered under these criteria.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

UCL LLM graduates are highly sought after worldwide. Alongside advanced legal knowledge, students develop transferable skills in critical thinking, communication, and advocacy, which are qualities valued across many sectors. They also strengthen their professional profile through extracurriculars such as mooting, debating, and pro bono work, gaining practical e

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  •  Research Essay

Optional modules

  •  Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition
  •  International Human Rights Law
  •  International Law of Foreign Investment
  •  Carriage of Goods by Sea
  •  Competition Law (EU and UK)
  •  International Commercial Litigation
  •  International Trade Law
  •  International Arbitration
  •  Corporate Finance
  •  Law of Patents
  •  International and Global Environmental Law
  •  Law and Policy of International Trade and the Environment
  •  Law of Treaties
  •  International and European Refugee Law
  •  Access to Justice: Theory and Practice
  •  Historical Development of the Common Law
  •  Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
  •  Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals
  •  Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues
  •  Marine Insurance Law
  •  Legal Aspects of International Finance
  •  The Law and Regulation of Banks and Fintech Services
  •  Comparative Human Rights Law
  •  Aspects of National Security Law
  •  Law and Policy of Climate Change
  •  Competition Law, Regulation and the Intangible Economy
  •  Land Use, Sustainability and Environmental Justice
  •  Economics in Competition Law and Practice, The Role of
  •  Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making
  •  Human Rights at Work
  •  International and Commercial Trusts Law
  •  Advanced Foundations of Environmental Law
  •  Privacy, Data and Surveillance Law
  •  Discretion and the Rule of Law
  •  Insurance Law and Risk
  •  Human Rights at Work
  •  Civil Dispute Resolution - Civil Courts, Procedure and Litigation
  •  Commercial Remedies
  •  Trade Marks and Unfair Competition in the UK, Europe and the United States
  •  Law of Copyright and Related Rights
  •  Alternative Dispute Resolution
  •  Comparative Corporate Governance
  •  Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making
  •  Children and their Rights
  •  Use of Force in International Law
  •  Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition A
  •  Jurisprudence and Legal Theory A
  •  Global Competition and Litigation
  •  Comparative Human Rights Law I
  •  International and Comparative Secured Transactions
  •  Comparative Constitutional Law
  •  Constitutional Theory
  •  Religion, State and Law
  •  Legal Needs and Legal Assistance
  •  Corporations, Finance and the Environment
  •  International Criminal Law
  •  Foreign Relations Law
  •  Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals
  •  Financial Crime and Process

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