SOAS, University of London, LLM, Law

Students are required to take four taught courses, one of which will be assessed by a 15,000 word dissertation. The dissertation must be linked to one of the law courses and counts as assessment of that law course.

Choices of the four taught courses can be the following:

• Three courses must be chosen from the LLM course list (50 full and half unit courses) or may be an approved language
• Another option: LLM course list below, an approved language, or an appropriate SOAS non-law option (with the approval of the LLM convenor)
• There is also an optional pre-sessional course.

Three courses must be chosen from the following SOAS LLM course list:

• Access to justice & dispute resolution: special applications
• Affirmative action law
• Alternative dispute resolution
• Arab comparative commercial law
• Banking law
• Chinese commercial law
• Climate change law and policy
• Colonialism, empire and international law
• Commercial Law
• Comparative Commercial Law
• Comparative constitutional law
• Development, environment and the law in the South
• Economic approaches to law
• Feminist legal theory
• Feminist Legal Theory
• Foundations of Chinese law
• Foundations of Comparative Law
• Foundations of international law
• Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law
• Human rights and Islamic law
• Human rights of women
• Human rights in the developing world
• Intellectual property rights and development
• International and comparative copyright law: copyright in the global village
• International and comparative corporate law
• International commercial arbitration
• International criminal law in context
• International Economic Law
• International environmental law
• International human rights clinic
• International Labour Law and Equality Rights
• International law and global orders
• International law and international relations
• International laws on the use of force
• International protection of human rights
• International trade law
• Islamic law (MA/LLM)
• Islamic law 2: succession
• Jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals
• Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Societies
• Justice, reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies
• Law and development in Africa
• Law & governance in the developing world
• Law and international inequality: critical legal analysis of political economy from colonialism to globalisation
• Law and natural resources
• Law and policy of international courts and tribunals
• Law and society in the Middle East and North Africa
• Law and society in South Asia (MA/LLM)
• Law, human rights and peace building: the Israeli-Palestinian case
• Law, institutions and political economy of transition
• Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Human Rights (MA/LLM)
• Law of the creative cultural industries in the Middle East and North Africa
• Law of international finance
• Law of Islamic finance
• Legal regulation of the music industry
• Migration, gender and the law in South East Asia and beyond
• Modern Chinese law and human rights
• Multinational enterprises and the law
• Procedural principles and ethical standards
• Sociological Approaches to Law
• The law of armed conflict
• Water Law and Governance in Asia
• World Trade Organisation Law

Optional Pre-sessional Course

• Preliminary law, legal reasoning and legal methods