Explore the application of law and legal research in society, alongside a very small cohort of high-calibre students. Develop advanced skills in legal research methods and analysis of law and legal issues, with an emphasis on doctrinal, theoretical and contextual law. This programme is ideal preparation for PhD study, and advances your self-understanding as a participant in the practice of legal scholarship.

You can focus on research areas that interest you, such as jurisprudence, criminology or international human rights.

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.