Overview
Introduction
This LLM provides the highest quality of teaching by leading international and UK academics. It combines views and experiences from different disciplinary traditions and jurisdictions, ensuring that what you learn is relevant to legal study and practice.
Courses are offered across a broad range of fields, including: arbitration; human rights; international law; corporate; commercial; and financial law.
You can choose to pursue your LLM with a general focus, or pursue a subject specialism. If you take the required number of LLM courses (or more), you can request that your chosen specialism is included on your final certificate.
Should your dissertation topic directly correlate with your nominated specialism, the compulsory Legal Research and Writing Skills course can make up part of your programme if this is agreed by the LSE Law School. Furthermore, with the relevant approval, and subject to space, you may be able to take up to a full unit course, or two half-unit courses from another LSE department.
The specialisms for 2024/25 are:
- Competition and Innovation
- Corporate and Commercial Law
- Criminal Law and Justice
- Dispute Resolution
- Environment and Energy Law
- European, Comparative and Transnational Law
- Financial Law and Regulation
- Human Rights Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Business Law
- IT and Data Law
- Law, Politics and Social Change
- Public International Law
- Public Law
- Taxation Law
Graduates with a legal qualification from their home jurisdictions may be eligible to join a variety of employers in financial and management consulting, subject to re-qualification and visa requirements. Others may continue to progress their careers in national, regional and international law firms, or work in a legal capacity within an NGO or multilateral organisation.