School of Social Sciences

Healthcare Ethics and Law LLM / MA / MSc

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months full-time | 24 months part-time

About the course

PATHWAYS:

Examine a wide variety of ethical and legal issues and their implications while receiving the highest quality of teaching in healthcare ethics and healthcare law with an interdisciplinary approach.

The MA covers the same wide variety of fascinating ethical and legal subjects as the LLM, but with an equal focus on ethics and law, whereas the LLM has a bias towards law-based modules.

The MSc is designed for students on medical degrees. This course compliments your training by giving you the opportunity to study the in-depth moral and legal issues that you will face as a medic or researcher.

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Join one of the UK's Top 10 universities for Law

(QS Rankings, 2024)

Apply bioethical and legal theory to 'real world' scenarios.

Our graduates are among the most targeted by top UK employers

(High Fliers 2024)

Compulsory Units

Dissertation by Independent Research
Philosophical Bioethics
Medico-Legal Problems

Optional Units

Mental Health Law and Policy
Research Ethics
Ethics & Genetics and Genomics
Research methods and methodologies for bioethics and law
Philosophy of Law
Medicine Law and Society

Compulsory and optional units vary across the LLM, MA and MSc. These are examples of units offered in 2023/24 and are subject to change.

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Where will your degree take you?

Graduating from this course, you will be able to progress within a wide variety of roles in medical, legal and ethical fields. Graduates from previous years have, for example, proceeded to specialise in medico-legal practice and academic careers, and the degrees have enhanced the careers of healthcare professionals.

You'll also develop skills in research, communication and critical thinking, setting you up well for a range of other interesting and worthwhile careers.

Nancy Evans

Healthcare Ethics and Law Graduate

"My student experience was thoroughly positive. My tutors were highly supportive, and I enjoyed being able to discuss opinions with other members of the course who come from a number of different backgrounds"“