Law General

Birkbeck, University of London
Postgraduate LLM Full-time 1 Year LawPolicing

About this course

This LLM Law General is a research-led course designed to ensure you gain a solid foundation in general and inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to legal research, while providing you with the opportunity for focused specialism, as well as flexibility and diversity in your module choice.

Why choose this course?

  • This course is led by academic staff with extensive research expertise and publications in their field. They are part of a proud tradition of critical scholarship in law who address issues of law through power and inequality and are led by principles of social, economic, political, environmental and racial justice.

  • It allows you to choose from a diverse range of modules from any of the other pathway law courses, according to your professional and academic interests.

  • It is ideal if you would like to advance in your existing career or are ambitious to carve out a new career path.

    What you will learn

    This course will provide you with substantive knowledge of a wide range of contemporary legal topics and introduce you to key critical legal theories and methodologies. A compulsory module will provide you with an essential grounding in inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches to legal research, methods and skills. You will also have the opportunity to combine this with an additional optional research project module for a focused and supervised final project.

    During the course you will:

  • gain an understanding of the intersection between law and other societal challenges, as well as the interaction between multiple areas of law

  • learn how to transfer your understanding of complex problems and regulatory responses to different contexts

  • critically evaluate legal, regulatory and policy proposals.

    How you will learn

    You will be taught on this course via a combination of pre-recorded lectures and seminars. Lectures are designed to engage you in an outline or overview of the topic and seminars are group sessions in which you are encouraged to contribute to discussion or group work around the topic.

    You will be able to choose between full- and part-time study. This course has an evening timetable with classes taking place in the evening.

    Highlights

  • At Birkbeck we understand that law is about more than just legal doctrine and legal technique, so we have designed a truly interdisciplinary course in which you are able to take option modules from within the Law School and from other schools at Birkbeck.

  • The Birkbeck Law School is internationally renowned for its pathbreaking theoretical, political and humanities-based scholarship.

  • You will be able to attend our Law School Annual Lecture and specialist research seminars which feature international scholars speaking on current issues and their interdisciplinary research.

  • We are home to the Birkbeck Law Press which publishes Law and Critique: The International Journal of Critical Legal Thought. You can also take advantage of the rich research collections nearby, including those of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Senate House Library, the British Library of Political and Economic Science (LSE Library) and the British Library.

    Careers and employability

    On successfully graduating from this LLM Law General, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills, including:

  • the ability to work as part of a team

  • high-level oral and written communication skills

  • proficient research skills

  • skills in evaluating and assessing types of information.

    Graduates can pursue career paths in: the legal profession, advocacy, policy analysis, NGOs, the civil service, academia, research or journalism. Possible professions include:

  • barrister

  • solicitor

  • researcher

  • journalist

  • chartered legal executive

  • licensed conveyancer

  • human resources officer

  • patent attorney.

    • Study Options

    This course is available in 2 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: LLM

    Location: London

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: LLM

    Location: London

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    1136 Human resource managers and directors
    2419 Legal professionals
    4135 Library clerks and assistants
    3520 Legal associate professionals
    2412 Solicitors and lawyers
    4113 Officers of non-governmental organisations

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    Course Details

    Qualification
    LLM
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    London
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Law, Policing

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    Birkbeck, University of London

    London

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