Law (Online) (LLM) - University of East London

• Online delivery: Online delivery gives you the flexibility to plan around existing work commitments and progress in your career while you study. Complete and submit your coursework from the privacy and security of your own space.
• Flexibility: Study at your own pace. The flexible online courses allow you to study while arranging your daily tasks and career needs. Manage your time effectively by taking one module at a time. Focus on your learning and create your own study schedule.
• Experienced Faculty: Learn from experienced academics who share innovative techniques, research, and knowledge on up-to-date topics. Be inspired, challenged, and encouraged by a team of professionals to reach your goals.
• Virtual Classroom: Study online through our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), study module material, participate in online discussions with faculty and students and access the online library 24/7 with its complement e-books and journals.

Students will:

• Develop an advanced understanding of law in a variety of contexts.
• Critically engage with the major theoretical debates on the role of law in a given field.
• Display the ability to deal with different types of legal systems and laws.
• Apply critical and contextual approaches across a wide variety of subject matter.
• Develop the ability to analyse, articulate and write on the subject, by linking previous or current experience with an academic inquiry, particularly via a dissertation or an extended work-based LLM project.

Knowledge

• Ability to command key areas of legal discourse and doctrine
• Ability to understand the working of key national and/or international socio-political structures and institutions.
• Develop expertise by linking previous or current experience with current scholarship and legal debates, particularly via the dissertation or work-based LLM project.

Thinking skills

• Ability to engage with principal debates in specific areas of law.
• Awareness of the contribution of non-legal legal disciplines to legal study.
• Understanding of important debates within given areas of legal doctrine.