Gain an understanding of issues that arise in the interrelations between domestic, regional, and international legal frameworks, and develop expertise in EU law, refugee law, and global governance. On this pathway, you’ll critically reflect on the role of institutions and global actors, across topics such as the death penalty, contemporary issues in international environmental law, World Trade Organization disputes, and human rights law, policy and practice.

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.