English Law & German Law
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
Overview
Our Anglo-German course at King’s provides a challenging bi-juridical and bilingual education that is respected and valued by a wide range of employers. Our course is equally suitable as a platform for students who want to practice in England or Wales but wish to obtain an in-depth knowledge of German Law or those who intend to practice in Germany, or both.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.
Key benefits
Recognised globally as one of the UK's premier law schools.
Teaching by internationally respected, leading academics and visiting lecturers and practitioners from global law firms.
Unrivalled location for law, based in the East Wing of Somerset House on the Strand, with the Royal Courts of Justice, Law Society and Inns of Court all on your doorstep.
Consistently high student satisfaction ratings in the National Student Survey.
Excellent legal research resources at the College's impressive Maughan Library.
Active student-run societies organising social and career-oriented functions as well as mooting competitions.
Our course benefits from a partnership with international law firm Reed Smith LLP, to support your learning and future career development.
The generous The Dickson Poon Undergraduate Law Scholarship Programme aims to support the brightest and best students. The Scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit and open to all who apply to study Law at King's and who are offered a place on one of our LLB courses.
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Credit
- Benefits
- English
- LLB
- LLM
- International
- Global
- Law
- University
- Public
- Property
Course programme
Year 1
Year 1
Currently, students study the modules shown below. King's reviews its modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School for further advice.
Courses are divided into modules. In year 1 at King's you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.
Required ModulesYou are required to take the following modules for this course. In addition, and depending on your language skills, you will participate in a German legal language course (non-credit bearing), provided by our Modern Language Centre exclusively for students on the Anglo-German LLB course.
- Legal Reasoning and Legal Services (non-credit bearing)
- German Public Law (30 credits) - classes and examinations are conducted in German
- Elements Of The Law Of Contract (30 credits)
- Criminal Law (30 credits)
- Public Law (30 credits)
Year 2
Year 2
During your second year, you will take 120 credits if you are taking the LLM option or 150 credits if you are taking the First State Exam.
Required Modules
The following 30-credit modules are required for this course. In addition to the required modules and depending on language skills, students continue to attend the German legal language course offered by the Modern Language Centre.
- German Civil Law (30 credits) - classes and examinations are conducted in German
- German Criminal Law (30 credits) required for students who want to pursue the First State Exam pathway at Humboldt University, classes and examinations are conducted in German.
- Law Of Tort (30 credits)
- Law Of Property (30 credits)
- Law Of Trusts (30 credits)
Year 3
Year 3
You will spend Year 3 at Humboldt University, following either the First State Exam or LLM option. If you choose the LLM option you will return to King’s in Year 4.
Required Modules You will complete a range of modules from Humboldt University. Optional ModulesYear 4
Year 4
If you are following the First State Exam course you will spend your fourth year at Humboldt University.
If you are following the LLM course you will return to King’s.
Required ModulesFor the LLM course the following 30-credit module is required in Year 4:
- Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
In addition, you will choose optional modules worth 90 credits in total from a range of options, which may typicallly include:
- Advanced Constitutional Law (30 credits)
- Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property (30 credits)
- Anti-Discrimination Law (30 credits)
- British Legal History (30 credits)
- Commercial Law (30 credits)
- Company Law (30 credits)
- Comparative Private Law (15 credits)
- Competition Law (30 credits)
- Consumer Protection: advising global businesses and their customers (30 credits)
- Criminal Law Theory (15 credits)
- Criminology and Criminal Justice (30 credits)
- Environmental Law (30 credits)
- Family Law (30 credits)
- Finance, Credit and Security (15 credits)
- French Legal System and Laws (15 credits)
- Hot Topics in Law, Technology & Society (15 credits)
- Human Rights Law (30 credits)
- Intellectual Property Law (30 credits)
- International Commercial Arbitration (15 credits)
- Labour Law (30 credits)
- Law and Economics (30 credits)
- Law and Social Theory (30 credits)
- Law of Personal Taxation (30 credits)
- Machine Intelligence, Surveillance & Society (15 credits)
- Medical Law (30 credits)
- Moral Philosophy (15 credits)
- Principles of Enterprise Governance (30 credits)
- Private International Law (30 credits)
- Public International Law (30 credits)
- Russian Legal System (30 credits)
- Student Law Clinic (15 credits)
- Transnational Company Law (15 credits)
English Law & German Law