LLM Law - General Legal Studies

Our vibrant international community and diverse teaching methods enrich the LLM experience at the University of Bristol. You’ll engage with course materials and benefit from regular, in-depth interaction with tutors who are leaders in their fields, as well as with your peers, through a blend of lectures, seminars, bespoke skills workshops and structured independent learning.

Our wide range of optional units reflect the expertise of our globally renowned academics, allowing you to further specialise your degree. As part of this programme, you will select four units from the list offered across our LLM programmes and complete a dissertation project.

On our programme, you can:

• Curate your own pathway through the programme with free choice for your four modules.
• Benefit from a diverse range of units, including clusters of activity across commercial law, company law, health law and policy, sustainability and climate, the law relating to work, human rights and the regulation of technology.
• Study units such as Legal Perspectives on Sustainability; Health Inequalities, Law and Society; International Law and Armed Conflict; and Company Law in a Global Context.
• Choose between an innovative group dissertation pathway or an individual dissertation research project, allowing you to develop key employability skills such as teamwork, or individual project planning and management. You’ll be supervised by an expert in the field and supported through a tailored programme of development activities to help you succeed in your chosen pathway.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our LLM in General Legal Studies. 

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in Law.

OR an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent non-law degree in a related field, such as Business, Economics, History or Politics.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

We will also consider your application if your subject is not listed above, if you have evidence of significant academic or professional experience (at least 12 months, paid) in fields including, but not limited to: commercial practice, financial services practice and policymaking; corporate or commercial law, arbitration, regulation or policy.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have a relevant postgraduate qualification.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.