Critically reflect on the role of various institutions and global actors within development. This pathway provides specialist knowledge and skills required by professionals, scholars and leaders in the field of international law and development. Choose from topics including human rights law, policy and practice, addressing poverty and inequality, food security and development, and the global architecture of crisis, conflict and disaster management.

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.