LLM

Overall learning Outcomes

Students will:

Develop an advanced understanding of law in a variety of contexts.
Critically engage with the major theoretical debates on the role of law in a given field.
Display the ability to deal with different types of legal systems and laws.
Apply critical and contextual approaches across a wide variety of subject matter.
Develop the ability to analyse, articulate and write on the subject, by linking previous or current experience with an academic inquiry, particularly via a dissertation or an extended work-based LLM project.
Knowledge

Ability to command key areas of legal discourse and doctrine
Ability to understand the working of key national and/or international socio-political
structures and institutions.
Develop expertise by linking previous or current experience with current scholarship and
legal debates, particularly via the dissertation or work-based LLM project.
Thinking skills

Ability to engage with principal debates in specific areas of law.
Awareness of the contribution of non-legal legal disciplines to legal study.
Understanding of important debates within given areas of legal doctrine.