Laws (LL.M.)
- Duration: 1 Year(s) Full Time
- Admission Requirements: See bottom of this page
- Closing Date: 31st May 2013
- Course Director(s): Professor Neville Cox
- Course Administrator(s): Ms. Kelley McCabe
- Course Email(s): kelley.mccabe@tcd.ie
- Course Tel(s): +353-1-679 2392
- Course Fax(s): +353-1-677 0499
- Course Next Intake: September 2012
- Course Url: www.tcd.ie/Law/postgraduate/llm/
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The LL.M. is directed at well-qualified graduates in law and related disciplines. It seeks to promote critical analysis of, and reflection on, different aspects of national, European and international law. This programme is delivered over one academic year. Students are examined in six modules and complete a research dissertation of up to 25,000 words over the academic year on an approved theme. The modules offered might typically include the following: Advanced Comparative Law: European Legal Systems, Advanced European Union Law, Advanced Lawyering Techniques, African Human Rights Law, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Chinese Legal System in Comparative Perspective Comparative Civil Rights, Corporate Governance, Corporate Insolvency, Corporate, White-Collar and Regulatory Crime, Corruption Law, Employment Litigation, EU Aviation Law, EU Banking and Securities Law, EU Competition Law, EU Consumer Law, EU Environmental Law, EU Financial Services Law, European Energy Law, European Human Rights Law, European Intellectual Property Law, European Tax Law, Globalisation and the Law, International and Comparative analysis of Unfair Competition and Trade Mark Law, International Economic Law, International Dispute Resolution, International Family Law, International Humanitarian Law, International and European Tax Law, International Trade Law, Internet Law and Regulation, International Criminal Law, Islamic Law, Judicial Activism, Human Rights and Indian Constitution, Judicial Review and Human Rights: Theory and Practice, Law and Bioethics, Law and Literature, Law on the Seizure of Criminal Assets, Legal System of Timor-Leste, Law and Literature, Public Law of the European Union, Theoretical and Comparative Criminal Law, Transitional Justice Travellers, Human Rights and the Law. The Law School reserves the right to vary the above list and, in particular, the right to withdraw and add courses. Note that timetabling considerations may also restrict choice. Further information on the precise modules available in a given year is available on the LLM website.Admission Requirements
Applications for admission to the LL.M. programme are invited from graduates holding a good honors law or law-based interdisciplinary degree. Assuming that this basic pre-requisite is in place, thereafter, admission to the programme is at the discretion of the LL.M. Sub- Committee who will decide on questions of admission having regard to the totality of all application files and the objectives of ensuring a diverse LL.M. class of the highest possible academic calibre.