Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
The University of EdinburghCriminal Law and Criminal Justice LLM is a postgraduate degree at The University of Edinburgh, based in Edinburgh, taught full-time over 1 year.
About this course
A cutting-edge and intellectually demanding programme, the LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice will equip you with an advanced knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and theories underpinning criminal law and criminal justice and how they operate in practice.
The programme covers the following core areas:
* Current issues in criminal law and criminal justice
* Fundamental principles of substantive and procedural criminal law
* Criminalization
* International, transnational, and European criminal law
* Sexual offending
* Global crime and insecurity
* The penal process
* Different approaches to understanding and critiquing criminal law and criminal justice, including:
* doctrinal
* comparative
* theoretical
* socio-legal methods
The programme is suitable for students who have studied law or a related subject at undergraduate level and wish to develop a specialist understanding of criminal law and criminal justice.
Study Options
This course is available in 2 study options:
Duration: 2 Years
Qualification: LLM
Location: Edinburgh
Duration: 1 Year
Qualification: LLM
Location: Edinburgh
Career Prospects
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Course Details
- Qualification
- LLM
- Study Mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- 1 Year
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Edinburgh
- Scheme
- Postgraduate
- Subjects
- Law, Policing
2025-entry data — 2026 offers may differ