LLM in Law (General)
University of Dundee
Key Information
Campus location
Dundee, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
12 months
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 20,900 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* International £8,765 for Scotland| £8,765 for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland
Introduction
Design a bespoke LLM course to suit your needs by choosing modules from areas such as corporate and commercial law to international law and security.
This course allows you to build your own personalized LLM in law by choosing from our wide range of specialist modules, meaning you can study areas that interest you.
We offer a wide variety of law modules in different specialist areas. There are options in:
- Corporate law
- Competition
- Banking
- Trade law
- Investment law
- Intellectual property
- E-commerce
- Environmental law
- Climate change
- Water law
- International law
- Human rights law
- International criminal justice
- International security
- Transnational crime
As well as specialisms delivered by our staff, there are options in oil and gas or energy law (from the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy). You can also choose from business, politics and international relations.
Students often combine topics from different areas. For example, you might want to combine an understanding of corporate and commercial law with environmental law or to combine an understanding of security with international criminal justice.
This wide choice allows you to develop existing areas of specializationpracticed or to expand your knowledge into new areas of law that you have not studied or practised before.
Pagoda Projects Internships
Law students can apply for a global internship with Pagoda Projects to develop employability skills and gain valuable international work experience.
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Curriculum
Teaching
We offer an induction programme in legal research skills at the start of each semester. This ensures that you understand the UK and European legal systems and can find and use the resources that you will need. You will also learn what is required of you in a study environment where you may be learning more independently than previously.
Most of your teaching will be in student-led seminars where you will read extensively in advance, and discussion will be facilitated by the lecturer. Sometimes there will be a lecture component, e.g. at the start of the class, to structure the discussion.
All our modules are delivered by experts in their field. Guest lecturers may also visit, either within modules or as a separate event. We offer a wide variety of external activities, including a residential study trip for all students.
You will devise, research, and write a dissertation in the summer, which will consider a question relevant to the subjects you are studying. This will let you demonstrate your research skills, and there will be classes to help you prepare for this.
Assessment
You will be assessed mainly through a combination of exams and essays, reports or other written coursework. Some of our modules have exams, and some have essays, but whatever form of assessment is used, there will be a formative ‘practice’ assessment early in the semester to gauge your progress and identify ways to improve.
Your dissertation is assessed wholly on the basis of the final text that is submitted.
Our Legal Research Skills module, which runs in two blocks at the start of each semester, is assessed by a short essay (in your first block) and a group article and presentation (in your second block).
Core Modules
These modules are an essential part of your course.
- Law LLM Dissertation (LW50107)
- Legal Research Skills (LW50108)
Optional Modules
You need to choose one or more of these modules as part of your course.
- Legal English (LW11014)
- International Petroleum Law and Policy (CP51005)
- International Law of Natural Resources and Energy (CP51007)
- National and Comparative Oil and Gas Law (CP51039)
- Just Transition to a Net-Zero Economy (CP51044)
- Transnational Law of Sustainable Development and Environment (CP52003)
- Legal Framework for International Project Finance (CP52007)
- International Relations and Energy and Natural Resources (CP52008)
- Fundamentals of International Arbitration (CP52065)
- International Law and Energy Disputes (CP52066)
- Digital Evidence (LV52001)
- Private International Law of Business Transactions (LW51111)
- Environmental Regulation (LW51115)
- International Law and Security (LW51123)
- Business and Human Rights (LW51128)
- Private International Law (Common Law Perspectives) (LW51133)
- International Investment Law (LW51146)
- Privacy, Cybersecurity and Surveillance (LW51148)
- Comparative Constitutional Law (LW51149)
- Comparative Corporate Law and Insolvency (LW52003)
- Competition Law (LW52005)
- International Human Rights: Law, Theory & Practice (LW52022)
- Intellectual Property Law (LW52111)
- World Trade Organisation Law (LW52132)
- International Taxation Law (LW52135)
- Water Law (LW52141)
- International Dispute Resolution (LW52142)
- Internship (LW52143)
- The Law of Mergers & Acquisitions (LW52144)
- Corporate Sustainability and ESG Law (LW52146)
- Enforcing Debts Across Borders (LW52147)
- Human Rights in International Relations (PO52017)
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Career Opportunities
The flexibility of the LLM (General) has meant that graduates have gone on to pursue careers in all aspects of the legal profession, from private practice, or as in-house counsel, to working for governments or NGOs, as well as doctoral research and academia. Graduates have also used the legal skills they have developed to find employment in the commercial sector.
When you join Dundee Law School you will have access to dedicated careers support, both during and after your studies, through the Careers Service. This includes 1-1 advice on constructing your cv and preparing for interviews. Students also benefit from the guidance of our academics who have a wide range of international insights and experience from legal practice. We maintain strong connections with our Alumni who have run careers focused Q&A sessions and many are also involved in Mentoring.
Internships
We support our students who wish to apply for competitive internships – these can form part of your LLM or be undertaken after your studies. Our students have succeeded in securing prestigious internships in a range of international organisations, including the Council of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. And for some, internships can lead directly to a full time paid role.
Pagoda Projects
LLM students can also apply for a global internship with our partners Pagoda Projects to develop employability skills and gain valuable international work experience. A Pagoda internship, can be undertaken in a variety of locations globally, or done remotely. Either way it lasts 8 weeks and takes the place of the LLM dissertation. Students complete an internship report.