Maritime Law (Top-up) (Distance Learning) (Taught)

Why study this course?

This Maritime LLM Top-up route allows students who have passed the London Metropolitan University and Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law distance learning course to obtain a Master's qualification.

More about this course

The LLM degree enables you to develop an advanced understanding of a specialist area of maritime law. It is suitable for those in both the legal and maritime industry who are looking to enhance their career prospects.

This unique distance learning programme for the shipping sector will:

• allow you to develop an advanced understanding of an aspect of maritime law through independent research

• improve both your research and independent study skills

• enhance your ability to develop substantiated critical argument

There will be formative assessment on the research proposal and literature review which will precede the substantive research for the dissertation.

The summative assessment will be entirely by way of the dissertation.