LLM Law
Canterbury, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Kent Law School, at the University of Kent, is a leading UK law school with recognised excellence in teaching and legal research. Our distinctive critical approach views the law within the broader social, political and economic contexts in which it operates. You study full-time or part-time and can begin your studies in September or January, so you can set your own pace for your learning and career.
You'll join a dynamic, diverse, and intellectually stimulating environment, working closely with supportive academic staff. You will engage with critical research-led teaching throughout our programmes to ensure that you benefit from the Law School’s world-class research at the forefront of developments in Law.
Our innovative Master’s in Law degree has an international and contemporary focus. It offers an open choice of modules and pathways enabling you to tailor your LLM study to suit your needs and interests. Your specialism is left open until you arrive and is determined by the modules you choose. This way, your degree accurately reflects your ambitions and interests - making you ready to kickstart your legal career in whatever field you want to make your mark in.
You can develop in-depth expertise by studying one or two specialised subject pathways or studying for a general Kent LLM with no specialist pathway.
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Scholarship value
The award covers tuition fees, return airfares and living costs for a one-year taught Master's programme.
Deadline
Deadline for Commonwealth application: - 12 December 2024.
Hold an unconditional offer (with the only outstanding condition, international fee deposit) of a programme of study from the University of Kent - 31 January 2025
Criteria
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, candidates must:
- Hold an undergraduate degree at UK first-class level equivalent.
- Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed or be a British Protected Person.
- Be a permanent resident in one of the eligible Commonwealth countries listed above.
- To be committed to the University of Kent, you can apply for more than one course and/or to more than one University, but you may only accept one offer of a Shared Scholarship.
- Not have studied or worked for one (academic) year or more in a high-income country.
- Be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship.
- Return to their home country as soon as their period of study is complete. In some circumstances, a student may be permitted to remain in the UK if seeing doctoral study and satisfy certain strict conditions.
- Hold an offer by the deadline for a full-time postgraduate taught degree on one of the eligible courses at the University of Kent:
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
- MSc Infectious Diseases
- MSc Cyber Security
- MA International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- MSc Applied Actuarial Science
- MSc Conservation Science
- MA English and American Literature
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
- MSc Infectious Diseases
- MSc Cyber Security
- MA International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- MSc Applied Actuarial Science
- MSc Conservation Science
- MA English and American Literature
Further details
Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, set up by DFID in 1986, represent a unique partnership between the United Kingdom government and UK Universities.
Funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID), Commonwealth Shared Scholarships enable talented and motivated individuals to gain the knowledge and skills required for sustainable development. They are aimed at those who could not otherwise afford to study in the UK.
These scholarships are offered under six themes:
- Science and technology for development
- Strengthening health systems and capacity
- Promoting global prosperity
- Strengthening global peace, security and governance
- Strengthening resilience and response to crises - Access, inclusion and opportunity.
How to apply
To be considered for the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship you must:
- Make a formal application for a postgraduate degree at the University of Kent commencing September 2025/26. This can be done online here.
- Complete the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) online application process. For information on how to do that and full details of the application process please go directly to the Commonwealth Scholarships webpages.
- Applications will be considered based on Academic Excellence and a completed application.
- The Commonwealth will accept applications until 12th December 2024 (closing at 16:00 GMT).
Curriculum
The following modules are offered to our current students. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation.
Stage 1
- Legal Research and Writing Skills 1
- Legal Research and Writing Skills 2
- Legal Research and Writing Skills 1
- Legal Research and Writing Skills 2
Stage 2
Dissertation in Law (Canterbury)
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Employability is a key focus throughout the University and at Kent Law School. You have dedicated employability support together with a broad choice of work placement opportunities, employability events and career talks.
Within the Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice (LSSJ), we have excellent links through our dedicated LSSJ Careers team, with leading law firms and prominent members of the legal profession - many of whom visit the University to meet our students. We also work with employers to create work placement opportunities for our students.
Details of graduate internship schemes with NGOs, charities and other professional organisations are made available to postgraduate students via the School’s Employability Blog.
Law graduates have gone on to careers in the following fields:
- Finance
- International commerce
- Government
- Law
- NGO's
- Charity sector
Our dynamic and diverse international community provides the perfect environment to network and forge global connections to help boost your career chances across the world. Whatever area of law, or whatever country you want to work in, our LLM is the perfect next step to realising your ambition.
Program delivery
How you'll study
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Tutorials
- Independent Study
- Group Work
- Workshops
Teaching and assessment
The postgraduate programmes offered within the Law School are usually taught in seminar format. Students in the Diploma and LLM programmes study three modules in each of the autumn and spring terms. The modules are normally assessed by a 4-5,000-word essay. Students undertaking an LLM degree must write a dissertation of 15,000 words.