University of Dundee
Law (General) LLM
Dundee, United Kingdom
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
GBP 21,900 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for International students
Introduction
This course allows you to build your own personalized 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 specialization or to expand your knowledge into new areas of law that you have not studied or practiced before.
Admissions
Curriculum
Core Modules
These modules are an essential part of your course.
- Law LLM Dissertation
- Legal Research Skills
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
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 doctoral research and academia. Graduates have also used the legal skills they have developed to find employment in the commercial sector.
Program delivery
We offer an induction program 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.