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Law LLM

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time

About the course

Our Law LLM gives you a solid grounding in the fundamental principles of law, combined with the flexibility to explore your interests and specialise in a particular area.

You'll have the unique opportunity to benefit from our impressive range of optional subjects, getting a broad education of legal, criminological and ethical issues.

Guided by our diverse group of academic experts, you'll build your analytical skills, broaden your knowledge and acquire a skill-set that will enhance your legal career in a variety of

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Benefit from our first-class facilities, including a purpose-built moot court where you can practically develop your skills

Join a university with a strong heritage of providing legal education since 1872, including graduates such as Dame Christabel Pankhurst

Our graduates are among the most targeted by top UK employers

(High Fliers 2024)

Compulsory Units

  • LL.M Dissertation

Optional Units

  • Academic Skills for Legal Studies
  • Postgraduate Competition Law in an International Context
  • International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
  • International Sale of Goods
  • International Banking Law
  • Global Economic and World Trade Law
  • Transnational Corporate & Capital Markets Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Trade Mark Law and Policy

These are examples of units offered in 2023/24 and are subject to change. See the full list of units and find out more on the full course profile >

Where will your degree take you?

The demand for business-minded graduates continues to grow worldwide. Our degrees allow you to develop a variety of both subject-specific and transferable skills suited to a wide variety of roles, such as critical thinking, legal analysis, research, problem-solving and communication.

Most of our recent graduates have gone on to work with leading organisations in law, government, policing, charities, or industry, and at top universities, with job titles such as Lawyer, Senior Policy Advisor, Compliance Officer, Human Rights Advisor, Manager, and Researcher.

Many of our graduates choose to go on to research degrees (PhD), either at Manchester or at another leading university, where they expand the boundaries of our knowledge and pursue careers in research or academia.

Holly Bamber

Law LLM Graduate

“At Manchester I'm surrounded by the best academics in the field they believe in me and treat me not as a student but as a lawyer. It inspires me to learn, alongside students from all walks of life students from all corners of the globe. I’m developing my legal research skills, learning how to apply my knowledge.

I know that a qualification from the School of Law at the University of Manchester already gives me the edge I need."

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