LLM offered by the University of East London

General Programme Aims:

This programme is designed to give you the opportunity to:

• Enhance your capability to find rewarding, satisfying and productive employment.
• Provide you with a relevant, interesting and stimulating learning experience.
• Engender a lifelong learning attitude that will enhance employment opportunities, future career development and further study

Overall learning Outcomes

Students will:

• Develop an advanced understanding of law in a variety of contexts.
• Critically engage with the major theoretical debates on the role of law in a given field.
• Display the ability to deal with different types of legal systems and laws.
• Apply critical and contextual approaches across a wide variety of subject matter.
• Develop the ability to analyse, articulate and write on the subject, by linking previous or current experience with an academic inquiry, particularly via a dissertation or an extended work-based LLM project.

Knowledge

• Ability to command key areas of legal discourse and doctrine
• Ability to understand the working of key national and/or international socio-political
• structures and institutions.
• Develop expertise by linking previous or current experience with current scholarship and
• legal debates, particularly via the dissertation or work-based LLM project.

Thinking skills

• Ability to engage with principal debates in specific areas of law.
• Awareness of the contribution of non-legal legal disciplines to legal study.
• Understanding of important debates within given areas of legal doctrine.