FHEQ level

This course is set at Level 7 (Masters) in the national Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.

Please Note

The programme specification below is for illustrative purposes. Please contact the School Administrator (Curriculum) for more detailed information.

Course Aims

The aim of this programme is to enable students to tailor their own postgraduate degree programme, according to their experience, interest and career plans, selecting courses from across the range of core and option courses offered by the Sussex Law School. The programme aims to develop to an advanced level students' legal knowledge and skills. The programme is particularly suited to students who wish to broaden their understanding of contemporary legal problems and debates. Students will achieve a deeper understanding of law in its social, political and economic context.

Students of this programme take courses from the specialist LLM programmes offered by the Sussex Law School (LLM International Trade Law; LLM Family, Responsibility and the Law; LLM International Criminal Law; LLM International Law: Rights and Responsibilities). SLS is therefore ideally placed to offer this programme given the range of courses available from which students can choose. They benefit from studying under the supervision of faculty who are expert in their field and with peers on both the LLM degree, specialist LLM programmes and students from other departments.

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the programme, the successful student will be able to:

1. Analyse and critically evaluate the legal principles of their chosen subjects.
2. Reflect critically upon the theoretical approaches to the law of their chosen subjects
3. Critically evaluate a range of subjects specific to the optional courses chosen on the programme.
4. Understand and make use of a variety of research methodologies in law.
5. Undertake a substantial research project.
In addition, the programme will develop the following intellectual and transferable skills:
6. Evaluate and make judgments in an informed way, identify problems and solutions, synthesise information.
7. Utilise a range of practical skills including IT and traditional resources and techniques for the presentation of critical analysis, both written and oral.
8. Reflect on their own development.

Course Outline (May Be Used in Prospectus)

This programme offers students the opportunity to tailor an LLM programme according to their experience, interests and career plans. By selecting from across the range of core and optional courses offered by the Sussex Law School students of the LLM Master of Laws extend the breadth and depth of their knowledge of legal principles and the social, political, economic and cultural context in which they operate. Students can select from an interesting variety of courses which examine contemporary and controversial issues of law, taught by enthusiastic faculty actively researching in the field.

Part-time course composition