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MSc Pg Dip Construction Law And Practice

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    MSc/PgDip 2 Years distance learning

Course Description

Construction law and practice affects stakeholders working across the international construction sector. Gain the necessary legal knowledge and commercial awareness to perform your current role more effectively, or make the career move into this field, with our MSc Construction Law and Practice degree.

Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and delivered exclusively online, our postgraduate qualification is designed to help you examine the responsibilities of employers, contractors and construction professionals together with the problems raised by the complexities of construction, design liability and insurance.

Led by academics and industry practitioners, you will build your knowledge of construction contracts and the law underpinning them, together with a wide range of standard form contracts to assess and manage risk. You will also examine the complex issues arising from the multi-party nature of the construction process, together with the uncertainties that can arise from the passage of time and latent defects.

Entry Requirements

A second class undergraduate honours degree in a relevant discipline, or

A second class undergraduate honours degree in an unrelated discipline and significant relevant work experience within the built environment, or

A recognised appropriate professional qualification such as RICS or CIOB

Fees

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Student Destinations

Our Construction Law and Practice postgraduate degree course is designed to provide you with formal qualifications for and develop a skill set to succeed in a construction law career.  Applying the legal knowledge you will gain during your studies, you can use this to either enhance your existing role, or use it as a platform to move in a legal remit.

Construction law affects professionals throughout the industry. Typical career roles to consider include working as a claims consultant, commercial manager, dispute resolution specialist or a solicitor.

Module Details

  • Fundamentals of Construction Law
  • Liability and Complexity in Construction Law
  • Dispute Resolution – Law and Practice
  • Dissertation

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