入学要求 Requirement:
学术要求:normally have a first or good second class honours degree in law OR an equivalent degree where law is a substantial element OR an equivalent degree in an appropriate discipline
英语要求:IELTS 7.0
学费 Tuition Fee: 2011/2012 £12,000
课程特征 Course Features:
This stream is intended to give the widest possible choice from our range of modules and permit you to make up your own portfolio of topics to suit your own needs or interests. It is possible to combine one or more modules on commercial matters, human rights, European integration, public international law and legal research to meet specialist interests or the needs of niche career plans. This might be of particular help to someone planning a career in non-specialist legal practice or in widely based legal policy oriented organisations whether commercial, NGO or government based.
课程内容 Course Content :
Leicester LLM students are required to complete taught modules totalling 120 credits and a dissertation weighted as 60 credits. As most of the modules on the LLM programme are 15 credits, this normally means studying four modules in both semesters (a small number of modules are 30 credits).
For the Leicester LLM there is a 15 credit compulsory module in semester 1.
Compulsory 15-credit module:
Writing Skills
Optional Modules:
•Civil Dispute Resolution Methods
•Commercial Conflict of Laws: Issues of Jurisdiction *
•Commercial Conflict of Laws: Choice of Law Issues *
•Comparative Law
•Contemporary Legal Problems of World Trade
•Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Sea *
•Critical Perspectives in Law
•Current Trends in International Law
•Diplomatic Law
•Feminist Perspectives on International Law
•Financial Services Crime
•Financing International Sales Transactions *
•Freedom of Expression
•General Principles of International Law
•Genocide and the Law
•Global Protection of Human Rights: Implementation Methods
•Global Protection of Human Rights: Core Principles
•Intellectual Property and the European Internal Market *
•International Boundary Disputes
•International Corporate Insolvency *
•International Courts and Tribunals
•International Environmental Law
•International Law and Development
•International Regulation of Companies
•International Sales Transactions *
•Law and Organisation of the World Trading System
•Legal Argumentation and Method
•Regulation of Financial Markets
•Socio-Legal Research
•Fundamental Rights
•The Law of Armed Conflict
•The State, the Law and Religious Freedoms
•Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
•Theories of Rights
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment:
The modules are taught by seminars which are designed to allow students to discuss and debate the subject, with guidance from the tutor. All modules are assessed by written coursework, although other forms of assessment may be used as well.