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  • DeadlineStudy Details: LLM 12-15 months full-time 16-27 months with placement full-time 24-27 months part-time 27-36 months with placement part-time

Course Description

The Brunel Intellectual Property Law LLM is designed for graduates wishing to gain specialist knowledge in the fast-growing discipline of intellectual property law.

Our programme, one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the UK, will give you a solid grounding in the fundamentals of intellectual property and the opportunity to develop specialised skills through our wide range of elective modules covering both policy and practical technology-related issues.

You can choose to study 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time (both start in September) or study 15 months full-time or 27 months part-time (both start in January).

As the use of the Internet and other cross-border communications and commercial technologies expands at pace, employers are on the look-out for candidates with the skills and know-how to keep up with complex and evolving legislation at an international level. 

Your Intellectual Property LLM will do just that and make you a preferred prospect by law firms and businesses.

Entry Requirements

  • A 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree, or equivalent internationally recognised qualification, in Law or a related subject (International Relations, Political Science, Criminology, and Criminal Justice). 

Other related disciplines and qualifications.

Fees

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Student Destinations

You will leave Brunel with a firm grounding in Intellectual Property law and with solid legal knowledge, allowing you to be flexible in your future choices. While you’ll have the foundation to pursue an academic career, you will also be well equipped to get into the specialist area of Intellectually Property as a practitioner or adviser at national or international levels.

Our students in recent years went on to pursue careers in range of high-profile organisations such as White and Case LLP, Trade Mark Wizards, European Parliament, ECDC- Ocean Accelerator Inc. and Patent and Trademark Clinic (PTC).

Module Details

Compulsory

  • LX5500 - Dissertation
  • LX5674 - Patents and Trade Marks
  • LX5675 - Copyright and Allied Rights

Optional

  • LX5612 - World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Human Rights Law
  • LX5653 - European and International Media Law
  • LX5625 - Internet Law II - Resolving Internet-related Legal Issues and Disputes
  • LX5655 International Commercial Law
  • LX5613 - World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law
  • LX5616 - Privacy and Data Protection
  • LX5624 - Internet Law I - Substantive Legal Issues
  • LX5650 - Contemporary Themes in Intellectual Property Law and Policy
  • LX5528 - International Environmental Law
  • LX5673 - Intellectual Property and New Technologies
  • LX5646 - International Intellectual Property Law
  • LX5621 - Philosophical Foundations of Intellectual Property

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