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• Human Rights Implementation Centre
• The Innocence Network UK
• Jean Monnet Chair in European Law

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LLM in General Legal Studies

This programme offers one of the widest choices of units available in any UK postgraduate law programme. The only limitation on a particular student’s choice of units is that certain units require prior or contemporaneous study of some other unit(s).

• Requirements for the LLM in General Legal Studies
• Units Available on the LLM in General Legal Studies
  • Specialist Units
  • Foundational Law Units

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Requirements for the LLM in General Legal Studies

To obtain an LLM by Advanced Study in General Legal Studies students must both:

1. submit a 12,000 word dissertation; and
2. take four LLM units.

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Units Available on the LLM in General Legal Studies

Specialist Units

For this programme students may choose from the following list of specialist units. We cannot guarantee that a particular unit will run in any particular academic year.

• Admiralty Law (Not available 2012-2013 Session)
• Banking Law
• Carriage of Goods
• Company Law
• Competition Law of the EU
• Corporate Theory and Governance in the UK and US
• Credit, Security & Insolvency
• Democracy and Legitimacy in the EU (Not available 2012-2013 Session)
• EC Trade Law (Not available 2012-2013 Session)
• Environmental Law
• European Contract Law (Not available 2012-2013 Session)
• Law, Gender and Sexuality
• Human Rights in Law, Politics and Society
• Human Rights Law
• Individual Employment Rights
• Information Technology Law
• Intellectual Property
• International Law and Armed Conflict
• International and European Immigration and Refugee Law
• International Commercial Arbitration  
• International Commercial Litigation   
• International Law and Human Rights
• International Law: General Principles
• International Law of Labour & Welfare Rights
• International Law of the Sea
• International Law of Trade and Aid
• International Sale of Goods
• Law, Gender and Sexuality  (Not available 2012-2013 Session)
• Law, Globalisation and Economic Development  (Not available 2012-2013 Session)
• Law of Electronic Commerce
• Marine Insurance Law
• Miscarriages of Justice?
• Philosophical Foundations of the International Legal Order
• Privacy Law
• Regulation of Financial Markets and Institutions

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Foundational Law Units

Students from a non-common law background may choose one of the following Foundational Law units as one of their four units:

• Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
• Constitutional and Substantive Law of the EU
• Land Law
• Law of Contract
• Law of Personal Property and Trusts
• Law of Tort
• Public Law

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