Our LLM Programmes – your choice

The Southampton Law School LLM programmes draw on the research strengths of the School’s academic staff who are active at the cutting edge of international and national legal reform and development. Our expertise is recognised as being of international excellence, and we are committed to providing the very best learning experience for all our students in a stimulating, supportive and research-led environment.

Students can select their module options and pathways once they arrive and tailor their LLM to their own interests and career development. Students are required to choose four subjects in the area of their interest and write a dissertation in that subject area.

The programme aims to:

• give you a thorough and systematic knowledge and understanding of the main principles of law in each of the modules and an overview of the social and economic policies and values which underpin them
• give you an understanding of the process by which law is produced and to evaluate that process
• give you an understanding of how UK and European Law, and UK and International law interact
• provide you with experience in dealing with legal principles deriving from a variety of legal instruments, including international conventions, statutes, case law and standard form contracts
• enable you to develop skills of legal analysis and problem solving, both systematically and at an advanced level
• enable you to understand the workings of the common law system where you come from a different legal background
• enable you to understand the legal and policy questions at the forefront of the academic discipline and to display a critical awareness of the present legal framework