LLM (Master of Laws)

LLM (Master of Laws)

The University of South Wales’s LLM course offers you a flexible approach to postgraduate study, where you can tailor your Master’s programme to suit your specific needs and career aspirations. You can explore a broad range of legal subjects, including commercial law, international trade law, competition law, employment law and intellectual property law.

Educational Aim

The course aims to:

• Provide engagement with theoretical and current issues of debate on topical, cutting-edge areas of concern.
• Develop advanced legal knowledge to provide for rigorous analysis of key areas of contemporary law and practice
• Develop the skills needed to deal with the legal rules relating to the relevant area of law and the ability to analyze and critique those rules in a practical and academic context.
• Place those studies in appropriate conceptual frameworks using a range of academic disciplines and insights.
• Develop the skills needed to use a range of legal and policy documents, including primary and secondary sources from the European Union, United Kingdom, and other legal jurisdictions.
• Develop research skills necessary for participation in a project or other professional task requiring the deployment of knowledge, comprehension, application, evaluation, analysis, and synthesis in the relevant area of law.
• Provide an opportunity to focus on contemporary and possibly controversial areas of law and policy development in order to engage in informed debate.

Pathway

Required Credits/Units: 180

Core Modules

• LC4S174 - Research Methods
• LC4S177 - Corporate Law and Governance
• LC4S180 - Commercial and Consumer Law
• LC4S185 - International Human Rights Law
• LC4S188 - Law of Obligations
• LC4S189 - Frameworks of International and European Law
• LC4T103 - Dissertation
• USW-IND-101 - Induction Module

UNICAF offers a number of scholarships to eligible students. For more information, please contact a UNICAF student adviser.