Postgraduate law courses
Develop your career in law with our range of postgraduate law courses.
Courses in law for postgraduate students
Are you looking to re-qualify to enter the legal profession or to continue your professional education in law?
You can develop your career in law with our range of postgraduate law courses.
We also have a wide range of Master's degrees to choose from if you who would like to develop an expertise in a specific area of law or are simply looking for that additional qualification to go on your CV.
We offer flexible modes of study through 4 main postgraduate programmes in law:
Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)
If you have a first degree, which is not a qualifying law degree, but you would like to requalify as a solicitor or a barrister, then the GDL is for you.
The Graduate Diploma in Law covers the academic stage of training that you need to undertake before starting a Legal Practice Course or the Bar Professional Training Course.
See course details for the Graduate Diploma in Law
Legal Practice Course
Become a solicitor with the help of our postgraduate Legal Practice Course.
Once you have completed the academic stage of training, this newly-validated full-time course will allow you to undertake the professional stage of training to become a solicitor.
This distance learning/campus-based programme offers flexible study. Around 60% of the programme is delivered online.
Face-to-face attendance is kept to 1 day per week for the majority of the academic year.
See course details for the Legal Practice course
LLM in Legal Practice
Once you have completed your Legal Practice Course you can proceed to our LLM in Legal Practice programme.
This will allow you to obtain a full LLM qualification through our LLM internship module.
See course details for the LLM in Legal Practice
Pre-Masters (Graduate Certificate in Law)
The Pre LLM is a dynamic programme aimed at providing you with a challenging and engaging legal education which, approaches study from both academic and professional viewpoints, enabling development of knowledge and skills which have relevance to all aspects of the legal community and profession.
See course details for the Pre-Masters (Graduate Certificate in Law)
LLM Master's in Law
Develop a specialism in an area of law, while adding additional skills and a qualification to your CV.
This course allows you to research a range of commercially-orientated legal areas.
Along with an extensive range of modules, there is also the opportunity (subject to an application procedure) to undertake an internship instead of a dissertation.
This will allow you to obtain academic credit from an internship, which is organised by the School of Law to ensure that you have a genuine work-place experience.
See course details for the LLM Master's in Law
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