Law (Taught)

This LLM Law is a research-led course designed to ensure you gain a solid foundation in general and inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to legal research, while providing you with the opportunity for focused specialism, as well as flexibility and diversity in your module choice.

Why choose this course?

• This course is led by academic staff with extensive research expertise and publications in their field. They are part of a proud tradition of critical scholarship in law who address issues of law through power and inequality and are led by principles of social, economic, political, environmental and racial justice.

• It allows you to choose from a diverse range of modules from any of the other pathway law courses, according to your professional and academic interests.

• It is ideal if you would like to advance in your existing career or are ambitious to carve out a new career path.

What you will learn

This course will provide you with substantive knowledge of a wide range of contemporary legal topics and introduce you to key critical legal theories and methodologies. A compulsory module will provide you with an essential grounding in legal research, methods and skills. You will also have the opportunity to combine this with an additional optional research project module for a focused and supervised final project.

During the course you will:

• gain an understanding of the intersection between law and other societal challenges, as well as the interaction between multiple areas of law

• learn how to transfer your understanding of complex problems and regulatory responses to different contexts

• critically evaluate legal, regulatory and policy proposals.

How you will learn

You will be taught on this course via a combination of pre-recorded lectures and seminars. Lectures are designed to engage you in an outline or overview of the topic and seminars are group sessions in which you are encouraged to contribute to discussion or group work around the topic.

You will be able to choose between full- and part-time study. Classes take place in the evening.

It is also part of our Birkbeck Flexible Master’s UK, which gives you the choice of how you want to study - on campus, online or via flexible learning, which combines both.

If you require a Student visa to study in the UK, you will only be able to apply for the on-campus study option for this course. Online and flexible options will not be available to you because they may affect the conditions of your visa.

Highlights

• The Birkbeck Law School is internationally renowned for its pathbreaking theoretical, political and humanities-based scholarship.

• You will be able to attend our Law School Annual Lecture and specialist research seminars which feature international scholars speaking on current issues and their interdisciplinary research.

• We are home to the Birkbeck Law Press which publishes Law and Critique. You can also take advantage of the rich research collections nearby, including those of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Senate House Library, the British Library of Political and Economic Scienc and the British Library.

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this LLM you will have gained an array of transferable skills, including:

• the ability to work as part of a team

• high-level oral and written communication skills

• proficient research skills

• skills in evaluating and assessing different types of information.

Graduates can pursue career paths in: the legal profession, advocacy, policy analysis, NGOs, the civil service, academia, research or journalism. Possible professions include:

• barrister

• solicitor

• researcher

• journalist

• chartered legal executive

• licensed conveyancer

• human resources officer

• patent attorney.