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Queen Mary

Postgraduate Study @ the School of Law, including the Centre for Commercial Law Studies

The School of Law at Queen Mary offers a unique combination of postgraduate research and teaching activities in an exceptionally broad range of subject areas.

The School is, first and foremost, a community of researchers and scholars. Its academic staff of over 60 full-time members has an internationally recognised research reputation.

In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which was a five-year national assessment of research in UK universities conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council, the Queen Mary School of Law was awarded a 5 star rating. This is the highest possible rating, denoting a standard of international excellence in research, achieved only by Queen Mary and seven other law schools out of the 60 Law Schools submitted in the RAE in the United Kingdom.

Queen Mary is one of the largest Colleges of the University of London. The postgraduate degrees awarded by the College are University of London degrees.

The expertise and scholarship of the School's staff underpin the breadth and depth of taught postgraduate programmes on offer. The School offers 16 specialist and one General LLM, which provides students with the opportunity to choose from over 89 different taught courses covering a huge range of postgraduate law subjects. The University of London LLM has a worldwide reputation for combining academic excellence with a practical and innovative approach to developments in law and practice

•    General LLM
•    LLM in Banking and Finance Law
•    LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law
•    LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution
•    LLM in Competition Law
•    LLM in Computer and Communications Law
•    LLM in Economic Regulation
•    LLM in European Law
•    LLM in Human Rights Law
•    LLM in Intellectual Property Law
•    LLM in International Business Law
•    LLM in Law and Development
•    LLM in Legal Theory and History
•    LLM in Medical Law
•    LLM in Public International Law
•    LLM in Public Law
•    LLM in Tax Law

Further details:
http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/llm/programmes/index.html#range

Many of the more innovative LLM courses were pioneered at Queen Mary. To enable the School to support such a range and variety of LLM courses, there are an additional 100 visiting teachers with expertise in specialist areas. http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/expert.html
As a student, you can pick from a whole range of LLM courses or can decide to specialise in particular subject areas.
In addition to the LLM programme, the School also offers taught MA and MSc courses as well as a number of specialised postgraduate diplomas. A major new development is the MA by Research, which is an ideal stepping-stone for students wishing to proceed to doctoral study, or simply for students wishing to enhance their career prospects by developing expertise in a specific area of law. Full details of all these courses and programmes can be found in the School of Law prospectus or http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/maresearch/
This strength in cutting-edge research and teaching also enables the School to provide a stimulating environment for a large and thriving body of PhD and MPhil students, one in which they can develop and prosper as researchers and fledgling law teachers and specialists in their own right. Research supervision is offered in all the major areas of law, and more specialised supervision is offered in areas of particular expertise of the School of Law staff.

Within the School, there are two departments:

•    Department of Law – (non commercial areas f law, including medical law and ethics, European, migration, money laundering, counter terrorism, human rights, public law, and international public law, jurisprudence, criminal, environmental, international. Staff teach on the LLM, other taught Masters, MPhil, PhD and have primary responsibility for undergraduate teaching. Based at the Mile End College (main) campus, 2 stops on the tube from Liverpool Street

•    The Postgraduate School of Law, including the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), is based in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn. Areas of expertise include; Arbitration (Advanced Dispute Resolution), Banking and Finance, Computers and Communications, IP, Tax, Economic Development, Commercial and Corporate Law, International Business

Both London sites - close to the financial heart of the City and Canary Wharf as well as the Courts of Justice and numerous law firms in Holborn,- provide access to a wide range of specialist institutions and practitioners who contribute cutting-edge expertise to an educational programme that blends academic issues with practical skills. Government, public bodies, overseas institutions, the legal profession, industry and commerce all consult and utilise the expertise, knowledge and skills of the School's staff.
The School is international in composition and outlook. It is able to draw on the input of distinguished resident and visiting scholars from overseas, and to engage in comparative examination of the legal systems of other countries. This gives our students an exceptionally rich study environment. We have students from virtually all European countries, including graduates and practitioners with several years work experience.

Examples of student profiles:

Claudia Arnautu, LLM

"Competition law is one of the fast growing fields in the Romanian legal environment and it is a “must know” for any ambitious young lawyer wishing to practice in the filed of commercial law. Working with the Romanian Government increased my awareness of the legislative and practical issues Romania was facing while knocking at the EU’s doors.
I chose to study competition law at Queen Mary University of London due to the ranking of the University and its ongoing involvement in the field of competition law. The first class I attended did nothing but to reinforce my decision to study competition law with one of the best teachers and practitioners in the field.
It was a very rewarding academic experience that opened the doors of many international law firms upon my return home. It is due to the practical skills and legal knowledge acquired during my LLM studies that I now have the chance not only to observe the legislative developments in the field of competition law but also to enthusiastically participate in them as a practitioner."

We take particular care to ensure that the excellence of our academic programme is combined with a friendly and welcoming atmosphere within the School.

More info

Centre Secretary centre-sec@ccls.edu

Queen Mary, University of London

67 - 69 Lincoln's Inn Fields

London WC2A 3JB

Further information about studying at Queen Mary, University of London is available in the School of Law Prospectus, which is available on the website: www.law.qmul.ac.uk