LLM Law, Environment, Sustainability and Business

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 take four units and a compulsory dissertation.

• You will study Legal Perspectives on Sustainability, where you will learn about the relationship of the law and the concept, policy and practice of sustainability.
• You also have the option of choosing among three specialist units linked to the LLM Environment, Sustainability and Business, as well as one unit from any of our other LLMs.  Optional units typically include Intellectual Property, Information Technology Law, Financial Markets and Bank Regulation and Digital Markets, Competition and Regulation, amongst many others.
• You can 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. 

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 Politics and International Relations, Economics, Business, Human Geography, Sociology, Anthropology.

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 you 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: environmental and sustainability IGOs and NGOs, environmental regulatory agencies.

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.