入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求： A second class honours degree in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.
英语要求：English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with a minimum score of 6.0 in all individual components, or equivalent.
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 £10,100
课程特征 Course Features：
The LLM Law is designed to provide a flexible educational experience that enables law graduates, non-law graduates and lawyers to develop their specialist legal interests at postgraduate level. Students have the opportunity to develop expertise in very practical and sought-after subjects through taught units and supervised research.
课程内容 Course Content ：
The course consists of 120 credits of taught units followed by a 60 credit dissertation. There is a range of 30 credit and 15 credit optional units including a 30 credit foundation unit entitled Legal Approach to Business which is core for those students without a law degree.
Semester 1
•Global Corporate Responsibility (30 Credits)
•International Private Law (30 Credits)
•Legal Approach to Business (30 Credits)
•Employment Law (15 Credits)
•Discrimination law (15 Credits)
•Information Technology Law (15 Credits)
•Tribunals Practice Procedure and Theory (15 Credits)
•Expert Witness and Dispute Resolution (15 Credits)
•Simulated Tribunal (only in conjunction with Expert Witness and Dispute Resolution or Tribunals Practice Procedure and Theory, 15 Credits)
•Work-based Learning Project (15 Credits)
•Project Units (15 Credits)
•ILEX Masters (Law Graduate only, 30 Credits - 15 credits in each semester)
Semester 2
•Corporate Governance (30 Credits)
•Reflective Practitioner (30 Credits)
•Financial Crime and the Law (15 Credits)
•Intellectual Property Law (15 Credits)
•Reflective Practitioner (30 Credits)
•Financial Crime and the Law (15 Credits)
•Interviewing and Testimony (15 Credits)
•Intellectual Property Law (15 Credits)
•International Commercial Arbitration (15 Credits)
•International and EU Business Law (15 Credits)
•Work-based Learning Project (15 Credits)
•Project Units (15 Credits)
Project Units
•Employment Law
•Discrimination Law
•Intellectual Property Law
•Information Technology Law
•International Private Law
Global Corporate Responsibility
This unit provides students with an understanding of the content of International Law and provides them with a critical appreciation of the relationship between International Legal Systems and International Human Rights. Amongst other things students will assess whether or not a multi-national corporation acts within the scope of international hard and soft law governing corporate human rights compliance.
International Private Law
This unit aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the problems of conflicts of law with an in-depth awareness of the areas of tort, contract and property law. Students will practice critical evaluation of the methodologies and theoretical basis used to establish a choice of law or relevant jurisdiction in a particular case.
Legal Approach to Business
The aim of this unit is to provide an understanding of what law is about and to help students to develop a sense of what it means to be bound by legal rules. Theories will be discussed and explored and students will be encouraged to appreciate how these theories impact on the way law is administered in this country. The unit aims to enhance students' understanding of how and why law is at the centre of our democracy and to develop students' ability to understand complex concepts and to approach it in an objective and analytical way. It will cover introduction to business law and basic principles of contract, tort and trusts.
Employment Law
Students who take this unit will obtain a thorough understanding of the law relating to the contract of employment and job security and will practice the application of this knowledge to problems within the work place. It is pre-requisite to the tribunals and simulated tribunal units. It is also a pre-requisite to those who wish to work with the Employment Law Live Client Clinic.
Discrimination Law
Discrimination law is a fast developing area. Much case law arises from the employment situation, but the law regulates education, housing and other services. The subject covers equal pay and discrimination on grounds of sex, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion and age.
Discrimination law is studied in context and thus the political root and social consequences are considered. Key concepts such as direct and indirect discrimination, harassment and positive discrimination and action will be considered in the first part of the course. In the meantime, students will select a topic and develop it as a research project. Assessment will be based on an oral presentation of this project to peers and the tutor in a role-play situation.
The unit will attract those who are developing expertise in employment law for professional or other career routes, but it will offer much to those interested in the rights of particular groups.
Information Technology Law
This unit will provide students with detailed knowledge and understanding of the various laws which related to information as a corporate resource including the laws which govern management and storage of information including data protection, the internet and ecommerce law. This will also include contracting and liability for website content.
Tribunals Practice, Procedure and Theory
This unit aims to give the student an understanding of the philosophy behind the creation of the tribunal as a means of dispute resolution and also the knowledge of the practice and procedure of an employment tribunal in order to equip them with the tools and capability to bring a claim to such a tribunal on behalf of a client.
Expert Witness and Dispute Resolution
This unit will enable students to examine the range of formal and informal methods of dispute resolution available within the civil and criminal legal systems and will provide students with an understanding of the conceptual themes, legal and procedural features relating to dispute resolution and to the efficacy and effectiveness of each method. In particular students will develop an understanding of both the legal context and practical protocols relating the role and function of the expert witness.
Simulated Tribunal
This unit will enable students to develop, practice, and evaluate advocacy skills in a courtroom setting and will develop students' understanding and appreciation of the practical constructs and applications relating to the legal framework governing tribunals and alternative dispute resolution settings and the procedural issues and etiquette applicable within those contexts. Students will build upon their knowledge of employment law and will be able make use of the mock courtroom.
Work-Based Learning
This unit helps to provide a flexible curriculum to those students who mix work and study. Learning is designed around the full experience and utilization of the learning cycle and other traditional theories and practices. The student will construct a learning contract in conjunction with an academic supervisor and an appropriate work place adviser. The contract is designed to encourage the student to actively manage their own learning processes and apply academic theory and content to their work place.
Project units
These units help to provide a flexible curriculum and are linked to a substantive law unit. They enable the students to enhance their skills of research and enquiry through providing a further opportunity to conduct an independent research project more limited in size to that of the Dissertation.
ILEX Level 6 (Master's route)
This unit builds upon knowledge of legal principles and legal practice and enables students to apply prior learning within a variety of litigation contexts. The students must have studied obtained a qualifying law degree to take this unit. It carries accreditation with it such that graduates with a qualifying law degree who take this unit will be eligible for membership of ILEX.
Corporate Governance Theory, Law and Practice
This unit will give students an understanding of the laws which regulate companies in the United Kingdom including an understanding of the law relating to corporate governance and the economic principles that underpin it. Students will come to understand the scope of company law protection and stakeholder debate, the corporate governance mechanisms, shareholder protection and remedies, market abuse and insider dealing.
Reflective Practitioner
This unit enables students who take part in the live client clinic to gain credits through the curriculum. The unit will be taught in a three week cycle: in week one, the students will work in teams to interview clients with access to a supervisor and will prepare a client care letter and file documents; in week two, all students attend a two hour workshop to be given guidance on their research; in week three, students will finalise and send out, under supervision, a letter of advice. Students will be assessed by means of reflection and submission of client files.
Financial Crime and the Law
This unit will enable students to appreciate the varying forms and constructs of financial crime, to understand current theories relating to the causal socio economic factors for white collar crime and appreciate the current regulatory and crime control statutes and the context of their development and enactment.
Intellectual Property Law
Students will study all forms of laws in which ideas are protected; from patents and copyrights to design trademark and the law of confidence. Students will obtain an in-depth knowledge and understanding of substantive law in the UK and the impact of EU and international law in UK provision.
International Commercial Arbitration
This unit draws on the expertise of our Professor of International Business Law and is his specialist subject. Students will be called upon to prepare and present seminar papers on selected topics and the issues raised in the paper will be discussed. Seminars are intended to cultivate presentation skills as well as to enhance students' research skills which will contribute to their intellectual attainment and deeper understanding of the subject.
International and European Business Law
This unit will provide students with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of substantive EU Social Law and International Human Rights Law and the impact of that law in the UK.
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：
Learning is student-centred and you will be regularly directed to undertake independent study. Participation is an essential element of the programme and much time will be devoted to individual and group problem solving. The taught courses build on the research strengths of the course team and discussion and debate will be encouraged. LLM Law students have scope for choosing subjects of particular interest to them that will be helpful in their future careers.
All students are able to select a subject of their own choice to research on which they will then write a dissertation. A supervisor will be appointed to support your dissertation work.