About this course
Postgraduate Laws programme: Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate
Specialisations
If you would like to specialise in a particular field of law, you'll need to follow specific courses and/or sections. This way, the specialisation will be named on your final certificate for the award for example, 'Master of Laws (LLM) in the specialisation: International business law'. If you follow the progressive route from Postgraduate Certificate to Postgraduate Diploma to the Master of Laws (LLM) each award might be in a different specialisation.
To have a specialisation named on your certificate, you need to study a certain number of courses or sections within that specialisation, as follows:
- Master of Laws (LLM) - three complete courses (12 sections) chosen from one specialisation
- Postgraduate Diploma - eight sections chosen from one specialisation
- Postgraduate Certificate - four sections chosen from one specialisation
You can specialise in any of the following areas:
| · Banking and finance law |
| · Commercial and corporate law |
| · Common law |
| · Comparative and foreign law |
| · Competition law |
| · Computer and communications law |
| · Corporate and securities law |
| · Criminology and criminal justice |
| · Economic regulation |
| · Environmental and natural resources law |
| · Equity and trusts |
| · European law |
| · Family law |
| · Financial services law |
| · Human rights law |
| · Insurance law |
| · Intellectual property law |
| · International business law |
| · International criminal justice |
| · International dispute resolution |
| · International intellectual property law |
| · International justice |
| · Law and development |
| · Legal theory and history |
| · Maritime law |
| · Media law |
| · Medicine and the law |
| · Procedural law |
| · Public international law |
| · Public law |
| · Sports law |
| · Tax law |
| Please note: throughout your study on the programme you can select sections from no more than four courses. |
Examples of specialisations
| To receive the Postgraduate Diploma in Laws in the specialisation International intellectual property law, you will need to study at least eight sections from any of the following three courses: |
| · Intellectual property on the internet |
| · International and comparative law of copyright and related rights |
| · International and comparative law of trade marks, designs and unfair competition |
| To receive the Master of Laws (LLM) in the specialisation Banking and finance law, you will need to study at least three courses (twelve sections) from the following four courses: |
| · Corporate finance and management issues in company law |
| · International and comparative trust law |
| · International economic law |
| · International trade law |