36 monthsProgramme duration
27,500 GBPTuition Fee/year
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Programme overview
Main Subject
Law and Legal Studies
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
UCL Laws has one of the most selective MPhil/PhD programmes in the UK, and produces graduates of internationally recognised quality. Ranked first in the UK for its world-leading research environment in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (2014), UCL Laws attracts leading figures in the field to our extensive programme of events, informing debate on critical legal issues.
Research areas:
- Antitrust, Regulation and Competition Law
- Comparative and Foreign Law
- Contract, Restitution and Tort
- Corporate, Finance and Insolvency
- Criminal Justice
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Environmental Law
- European Law
- Family Law and Bioethics
- Human Rights, Employment and Equality Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Business, Insurance and Trade
- International Commercial Law
- Judicial Studies
- Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
- Law and Economics
- Law and Ethics
- Law and Religion
- Law of the Sea
- Legal Education
- Legal History and Roman History
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Medical Law
- Property and Trusts
- Public, Admin and Constitutional
- Public International Law
Programme overview
Main Subject
Law and Legal Studies
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
UCL Laws has one of the most selective MPhil/PhD programmes in the UK, and produces graduates of internationally recognised quality. Ranked first in the UK for its world-leading research environment in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (2014), UCL Laws attracts leading figures in the field to our extensive programme of events, informing debate on critical legal issues.
Research areas:
- Antitrust, Regulation and Competition Law
- Comparative and Foreign Law
- Contract, Restitution and Tort
- Corporate, Finance and Insolvency
- Criminal Justice
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Environmental Law
- European Law
- Family Law and Bioethics
- Human Rights, Employment and Equality Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Business, Insurance and Trade
- International Commercial Law
- Judicial Studies
- Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
- Law and Economics
- Law and Ethics
- Law and Religion
- Law of the Sea
- Legal Education
- Legal History and Roman History
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Medical Law
- Property and Trusts
- Public, Admin and Constitutional
- Public International Law
Admission Requirements
We have a strong preference for a recognised LLM or equivalent Master's degree and would normally expect a distinction overall, with evidence of first-class ability (or equivalent) in extended written work/dissertation.
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