The LLM Programme is becoming an ever more popular stage in a student's study prior to the vocational stage of legal training or as a foundation for other career routes such as academia or private business. It builds upon undergraduate academic study and allows students to explore the law in far greater depth than was possible for them at undergraduate degree.
The LLM Programme is designed to provide an opportunity to students to develop and broaden their knowledge in the specified areas of law. To this end, the LLM Programme caters for a variety of individuals, ranging from recent law degree as well as non-law degree graduates who want to acquire specialist knowledge before embarking on their careers, to practicing lawyers and to people employed in the labour market who wish to complement their work with further specialised studies.
Through the LLM Programme, students will extend their systematic understanding of the law together with a critical awareness 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 independent research, the exercise of initiative and critical awareness of current problems; additionally, improve their prospects of professional, commercial, business or academic employment.
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