Postgraduate study in Laws:

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

· 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

· 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 Certificate in Laws in the specialisation Equity and trusts, you will need to study at least four sections from any of the following three courses:

· Commercial trusts law

· Equity and trusts in context

· International and comparative trust law

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