Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year Full time
The LLM (Master of Law) equips you with advanced knowledge and expertise in specialist areas of law, empowering you to pursue a diverse range of legal careers, or PhD study, in the UK and internationally.
You’ll have the opportunity to choose from the full range of innovative LLM modules delivered by the Department of Law (full module details below). To diversify your studies, you’ll also be able to choose relevant optional modules from the Department of Politics and International Relations.
An LLM from Goldsmiths puts you in the driving seat, enabling you to study Law from a multidimensional perspective.
Our curriculum has been built for the 21st-century landscape of Law, including subjects from Feminist Approaches to Law to NGO Advocacy in a polarised world, AI and Disruptive Technologies, Environmental Challenges, Social Justice and Human Rights.
Applicants will normally have a degree in Law, a related social science discipline (such as Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Media & Communications, Economics or Psychology) or a humanities degree (such as English, History, Philosophy or Art).
We also accept applications from people with professional, transferrable experience working in:
Students will normally be expected to have an upper second-class honours degree or its equivalent. There is some flexibility where applicants demonstrate exceptional commitment or abilities to study for the degree because of their possession of other qualifications, or because they have relevant experiences that would qualify them for the programme.
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Modules
All LLM Law students will write a compulsory dissertation (60 credits)
Module title Credits
Dissertation 60 credits
Students can then choose optional modules to the value of 120 credits.
These 120 credits can be up exclusively of Department of Law modules, or you may choose 15 credits from either of the following Interdisciplinary module lists below, which include options from the Department of Politics and International Relations.
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