Law LLM
Postgraduate
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
You'll learn from leading scholars with expertise in a wide range of areas, so you can keep your options open and explore a variety of approaches to law.
You can select core modules from any of our LLM courses. This means you'll extend your breadth and depth of knowledge of legal principles and the social, political, economic and cultural context in which you operate.
This LLM gives you the opportunity to investigate a broad range of legal subject areas and to choose different pathways.
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About this course
Career options available after graduation are as wide as the course itself. Many of our graduates go on to qualify as law professionals, nationally and internationally.
Others find employment in government or NGOs, or in commerce. Some choose to work in-house without qualifying in any particular jurisdiction or go on to further study.
Graduate destinations
94% of students from Sussex Law School were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent School of Law, Politics and Sociology graduates have gone on to jobs including:
paralegal, Turpin and Miller
general advisor, Citizens Advice Bureau
refugee researcher, Amnesty International UK.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Human Rights
- Intellectual Property
- Environmental Law
- Governance
- Property Law
- Resources Law
- Energy law
- Criminology
- Information law
Course programme
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
- Dissertation (LLM generic)
- Advanced Legal Research and Writing
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Anthropology of Law
- Approaches to International Law
- Aspects of Intellectual Property Law
- Biodiversity and Natural Resources Law
- Civil and Political Rights: Contemporary Challenges
- Climate Change and Energy Law
- Corruption and the Law
- Criminology in Theory and Method
- Critical Approaches to Information Law
- Cyber Law
- Digital Intellectual Property Law
- Environmental Law and Governance
- Environmental Law in Action
- EU External Relations Law
- Hate Crime and Sexual Violence
- Human Rights Law Clinic
- Indigenous and Minority Rights
- International and Comparative Company Law
- International and Transnational Offending
- International Aspects of Intellectual Property and Technology Regulation
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Crimes
- International Environmental Law
- International Financial Law Regulation and Governance
- International Human Rights Law
- International Investment Law
- International Law: Rights and Responsibilities
- Issues in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
- Law of Armed Conflict
- Law, Religion, and Human Rights
- LGBTQI Rights: International and Comparative Perspectives
- Migration, Rights and Governance
- Principles of International Law
- Privacy and Data Protection Law
- Regulating the Creative Industries
- Socioeconomic rights: economic violence, social justice and human rights law
- Sustainability and Law
- The Law on Financial Crime
- The Law, Economics and Behaviour of Corporations
- The Legal Regulation of International Trade
- The Use of Force and International Law
- Transnational Commercial Law
- War, Terror, Violence and International Law
- Women and Human Rights
- Youth Justice
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Law LLM