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Nottingham Law School
The Nottingham Trent University
The Department of Academic Legal Studies - The Nottingham Law School
Nottingham Law School is one of the largest full service law schools in the UK. It enjoys a national and international reputation for delivering high quality education and training across a broad range of academic and professional law programmes. Established links with legal practice make the School well attuned to the needs of both aspiring and qualified solicitors and barristers. There are over 100 full-time lecturers supporting over 2,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Professorships are sponsored by major Nottingham and London law firms and leading legal publishers and the School has an internationally distributed journal, The Nottingham Law Journal.
LLB Law
The LLB full-time degree provides a sound academic grounding in English Law, including elements of practical skills. As a qualifying law degree it combines core legal subjects with a range of electives, enabling the degree to be extensively tailored to the student's particular interests. Assessment is by a mixture of examinations and coursework. Students study five compulsory modules in the first and second years. In the third (or fourth if you have enrolled on the Diploma in Professional Practice) students study one compulsory module and four optional modules.
BA (Hons) Law with Criminology
This exciting new degree combines the established law and criminology courses and is a qualifying law degree. The law strand provides sound theoretical grounding in English law, and includes the teaching of practical skills, such as mooting. The criminology part addresses the foundational areas of crime and criminal justice with the opportunity to study specialist areas of choice in relation to victims, offenders and specific crime types.
LLM Competition Law
This is an exciting and increasingly important area of law, particularly internationally and EU-wide. This subject offers students the opportunity to explore the impact of competition law in areas such as monopolies and mergers and their regulation and control; cartels and price-fixing; market sharing and bid-rigging; intellectual property rights and anti-competitive practices; international competition and international trade.
LLM Corporate Law
Corporate Law focuses on corporate organisations and the law as it is related to them. The course has been designed in response to the rapid growth in the development of Corporate Law in both Britain and Europe, and to meet the needs of the legal profession in this area. Traditional subjects of corporate law are a key part of the programme, such as Insolvency Law. In addition students have the opportunity to study more contemporary subjects such as Intellectual Property and Employment Law.
LLM Health Law
This programme explores the controversial and expanding area of health law and ethics. The course is designed for a mixture of students in terms of background, including recent law graduates, practising lawyers and people working in the health care profession. Students examine general principles such as Consent to Treatment and Medical Ethics, together with more specialist areas such as the Law Relating to organ Transplants, Reproduction and the Law, Mental Health Law, Medicines and Pharmacy Law, and Employment and Health.
LLM Europe and the Law
This programme offers students the opportunity to study the law in a European context. As well as basic and specialist EU areas of law, this programme also covers Human Rights Law, UK Comparative European Law, French Law, German Law and Conflicts of Law which have application to all legal jurisdictions. Please bear in mind – you do not need to speak French or German to enrol on this LLM.
LLM Sports Law
This programme explores the growing area of Sports Law. The course will be of interest to students from a variety of backgrounds, including recent law graduates, practising lawyers and those working in sports related professions, such as sports science. This programme focuses on the Regulation of Sport at both UK and EU level and explores areas such as Sport, Law and the Human Body; Intellectual Property and Sport; Employment Issues and Sport; and Sport, Law and Society.
General LLM
The programme offers student the opportunity to study for a general Master's Degree in Law. Students will be able to select modules from the four specialised Master's courses in accordance with their interests and needs.
LLM Health Law
Employment law affects virtually all working people (much of the law in this area is relevant to the self-employed too) and is fast-changing, with political, economic and socio influences and implications. This course covers both UK and EU law and the specific contexts of sport and health working relationships.
LLM Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual Property is an increasingly important area of law, particularly internationally and EU-wide. The course offers students the opportunity to explore intellectual property law in both UK and EU contexts, together with the links to competition law and sport. This programme explores in particular Intellectual Property (Corporate), Intellectual Property and EU Competition Law, Sport and Intellectual Property Law
Research Degrees Mphil/PhD
The Nottingham Law School welcomes applications to register for Mphil and PhD degrees in Law. Although we particularly encourage applications in the fields of, criminology, criminal justice, civil justice, corporate law and health law, we do also value applications to undertake research degrees in other fields. Supervision is provided for research students by two or three members of staff, involving regular contact and periodic progress reviews.
About the University
The Nottingham Trent University is the fourth largest university in the UK, and one of the most popular universities in the country in terms of applications received. We attract students from across the globe and our total student population of around 26,000 is made up of approximately 21,000 undergraduates and 5,000 postgraduates. Our teaching is under pinned by strong research. All of our research units were rated as nationally or internationally important in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and four gained the coveted '5' Grade.
Nottingham Trent welcomes international students. We provide the distinctive qualities and advantages of the British Higher Education system within an environment accustomed to the demands and sensitivities of many different cultures. The University's International Student Support Service provides an ongoing support programme throughout the year to help international students make the most of their time and study in the UK.
International students are guaranteed university accommodation for at least your first year under certain criteria (please see our web site).
Students have access to excellent study and research facilities with the £13 million state-of-the-art Boots Library built on the City campus in 1998 and the academic computing network offers 24-hour access to the university's computing facilities.
Address Information:
| Address |
Department of Academic Legal Studies,
Nottingham Law School,
Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street,
Nottingham NG1 4BU England |
| Tel. No. |
LLM Courses: +44 (0)115 848 4498
Research Degrees: +44 (0)115 848 5543 / 6028
Undergraduate Courses +44 (0)115 848 4498 |
LLM & Undergraduate
courses email |
nls.enquiries@ntu.ac.uk |
| Mphil / PhD email |
gsr@ntu.ac.uk |
| Course titles |
Undergraduate Courses:
• LLB Law
• BA (Hons) Law with Criminology
Postgraduate Courses:
• LLM Competition Law
• LLM Corporate Law
• LLM Europe and the Law
• LLM Employment Law
• LLM General Law
• LLM Health Law
• LLM Intellectual Property Law
• LLM International Criminal Justice
• LLM International Trade Law
• LLM Sports Law
Research Degrees:
• Mphil/PhD |
| Type of course |
Undergraduate degrees - Full-time, part-time and Distance Learning
LLM and Research degrees - Full-time and part-time |
| Length of course |
Undergraduate degrees 3 or 4 years full-time, and distance learning
LLM degrees - One year full-time and two years part-time |
| Date of Commencement |
September each year |
| Accommodation |
Yes. All new undergraduate students are guaranteed accommodation – depending upon criteria. Please see web site for full details |
Student grants/
financial assistance |
For postgraduates there may be a limited number of bursaries available for international students. |
| Admission requirements |
Undergraduate:
Equivalent to British A-levels
LLB IELTS 6.5 TOEFL 550/213
Postgraduate:
Equivalent to first degree (Bachelor) or Master degree
LLM and Research Degrees IELTS 6.5 TOEFL 600/250 |
| Student profile |
Countries of origin: UK, Pakistan, Bulgaria, USA, Germany, Sweden, Jamaica, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Guyana, India, Malaysia, Cameroon, Brazil, Cyprus, Trinidad & Tobago, Kenya, Hong Kong, Tanzania. |
Contact Details
for application |
LLM Courses - Admissions Team
Mphil/PhD – Graduate School
Undergraduate - Admissions Team |
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