This pathway is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Gain knowledge of commercial law, combined with a detailed and unique awareness and expertise in dispute resolution. Study topics such as international economic law, World Trade Organization disputes, and investment treaty arbitration.

Graduates have gone on to work in government agencies, international courts and tribunals, multinational corporations, law firms, and academia (subject to further study).

A postgraduate law degree can open doors to a wide range of employment areas, such as law firms and European and intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), as well as academia (with further postgraduate study), journalism and broadcasting, the civil service and other branches of public service.

Graduates from our LLM programmes have gone on to work for a range of national and international law firms, as lawyers and inhouse legal counsels for large multinational companies in the UK and abroad, as well as international organisations and NGOs.