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Available Awards: By enlolling in the programme, all students aim at: • An LLm, on completion of 180 credits comprising 120 credits of taught subjects and a 60 credit dissertation. Students can decide to exit the programme with an interim award as follows: • Postgraduate Diploma in Law, on completion of at least 120 credits |
The LLM Programme is becoming an ever more popular stage in a student’s study prior to the vocational stage oflegal training or as a foundation for other career routes such as academia or private business. It builds upon undergraduateacademic study and allows students to explore the law in far greater depth than was possible for them atundergraduate degree.
The LLM Programme is designed to provide an opportunity to students to develop and broaden their knowledge inthe specified areas of law. To this end, the LLM Programme caters for a variety of individuals, ranging from recentlaw degree as well as non-law degree graduates who want to acquire specialist knowledge before embarking ontheir careers, to practicing lawyers and to people employed in the labour market who wish to complement their workwith further specialised studies.
Through the LLM Programme, students will extend their systematic understanding of the law together with a criticalawareness of current problems and/or research at the forefront of their chosen subject areas; enhance their intellectual,transferable and interpersonal skills as well as developing other postgraduate skills including independentresearch, the exercise of initiative and critical awareness of current problems; additionally, improve their prospectsof professional, commercial, business or academic employment.
