Postgraduate law taught programmes
The Law School has one of the most diverse ranges of specialised LLM programmes available in the UK. We also offer MA and MSc as taught postgraduate degrees.
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Postgraduate FAQs
Read more about our commonly asked questions on topics such as course content, the admissions process, student support and careers. You can also access our MA-specific FAQs here.
International students
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LLM Banking and Finance Law
This programme considers the law and regulation of banking and finance, with the opportunity to examine wide-ranging questions concerning the impact of law, regulation, policy and practice.
LLM Commercial Law
This intensive study programme enables you to engage in commercial and industrial topics, with the opportunity to concentrate on European commercial issues, international trade or aspects of domestic commerce.
LLM Company Law and Corporate Governance
This programme provides an in-depth understanding of company law and corporate governance. It examines various issues that focus on the legal, regulatory, policy and practice responses to corporations’ actions.
LLM Employment, Work and Equality
This programme is designed to enrich understanding of employment, work and equality law, investigating the various legal disciplines. It examines wide-ranging questions concerning the impact of regulation, policy and practice.
LLM Environment, Sustainability and Business Law
This course offers in-depth, intensive study of law and regulation that can help tackle the environmental and sustainability challenges facing businesses, governments and not-for-profit organisations, as well as influence the relationships between business actors and their shareholders and stakeholders.
LLM General Legal Studies
This programme enables you to specialise in a particular area, or, opt for a broader, more general set of units. You’ll consider relevant issues theoretically and practically from various perspectives.
LLM Health, Law and Society
This programme examines how to approach some of the greatest challenges and opportunities for law, policy and social norms as mechanisms to address health and wellbeing.
LLM Human Rights Law
This programme offers various units suitable both for those with some previous knowledge of human rights law and for those seeking an introduction to specific human rights law issues.
LLM International Commercial Law
In this programme you’ll engage in specialist international and commercial topics. International units can be chosen from topics within the field of private international law, and commercial units include an international element.
LLM International Law
This programme offers a variety of units making it suitable both for those with some previous knowledge and for those seeking an introduction to specific international law issues.
LLM International Law and International Relations
This programme is ideal for students who are looking to pursue a career in international non-governmental organisations, government departments and international firms, or as international consultants.
LLM Law, Innovation and Technology
Offering in-depth, intensive study in a range of areas, you will gain expertise in IT law, IP law, privacy and data protection, e-commerce and online business development, digital markets and virtual competition, and digital technology in legal practice.
MA Law
A two-year Masters law degree, suitable for graduates of any discipline.
MSc Socio-Legal Studies
A one-year, disciplinary Masters degree into the study of law and legal phenomena, suitable for graduates from a wide range of disciplines (including the Arts, Social Sciences and Law) who have an interest in the way law works in society. If a student is awarded ESRC funding, they have the opportunity to further their studies into a PhD.