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It is a fast track to obtain your Master of laws (LLM) at the University of London
-----through its offering distance learning

Self-study programme with extensive new study materials (print, CD and Web-based), written and edited especially for distance learning students.

eCampus containing online library resources, legal databases and dedicated discussion forums for each course.

Progression routes are offered enabling students to accumulate credits towards the Master of Laws (LLM).

Flexible, modular structures.

Postgraduate Certificate in Laws can be completed in six months, Postgraduate Diploma in Laws or Master of Laws (LLM) in one year.

Up to five years in which to complete your studies.




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The great benefit of this new programme is its flexible structure. It is up to you whether you study the subjects of most interest to you and/or those that will be most useful to your career. There is a wide range of courses to choose from and three awards to aim for: you decide the level you want to achieve and the areas you want to cover. And because you can study when you choose, you can plan your studying fit in with work and home commitments.

Each course is divided into four sections and there is a separate exam for each section. For some courses, there are set sequences to guide you through the sections (given under the syllabuses). For others, you decide the order in which you study you chosen sections.

You take the following number of courses and sections:

• Postgraduate Certificate – five sections from up to four courses
• Postgraduate Diploma – ten sections from up to four courses
• Master of Laws (LLM) – 16 sections from four courses.

Your progression through the awards
As you finish each award, you only need to take the additional sections necessary to complete the next award. You can think of progression as shown in this graphic, although you can choose any five or ten sections from four courses, as long as you respect the set sequence (if any) through the sections of a course as set out in the syllabus.

If you begin with the Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma and progress to the Postgraduate Diploma and/or Master of Laws (LLM), you continue to study the courses you have begun until they are completed.

In addition, you choose whether you would like to either cover several areas of the law or to specialise. If you choose to specialise, the name of your specialisation will appear in the final certificate of your award, for example 'Master of Laws in the specialisation: Computer and Communications Law' or 'Postgraduate Diploma in Laws in the specialisation: Maritime Law'.

Some courses do 'double duty' (or even more), fitting in to more than one specialisation, making it possible to obtain the Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Laws (LLM) in different specialisations.

Each course is divided into four sections. For most courses, there is some freedom to choose the order in which you study the sections. Students may choose sections from no more than four courses. All syllabuses are subject to confirmation in the Regulations.

• If you would like to specialise in a particular field of law, you'll need to follow specific courses and/or sections. This way, the specialisation will be named on your final certificate for the award – for example, 'Master of laws (LLM) in the specialisation: International Business law'. If you allow the progressive route from Postgraduate Certificate to Postgraduate Diploma to the Master of Laws (LLM) each award might be in a different specialisation.
• To have a specialisation named on your certificate, you need to study a certain number of courses or sections within that specialisation, as follows:
• Master of Laws (LLM) - three complete courses (12 sections) chosen from one specialisation
• Postgraduate Diploma - eight sections chosen from one specialisation
• Postgraduate Certificate - four sections chosen from one specialisation
• You can specialise in any of the following areas:

  Banking and finance law	Commercial and corporate law
  Common law	Comparative and foreign law
  Competition law	Computer and communications law
  Corporate and securities law	Criminology and criminal justice
  Economic regulation	Environmental and natural resources law
  Equity and trusts	European law
  Family law	Human rights law
  Insurance law	Intellectual property law
  International business law	International criminal justice
  International dispute resolution	International intellectual property law
  International justice	Law and development
  Legal theory and history	Maritime law
  Media law	Medicine and the law
  Procedural law	Public international law
  Public law	Tax law

Note: Throughout your study on the programme, you can select sections from no more than four courses.

Examples of specialisations

To receive the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws in the specialisation: Equity and Trusts you wil need to study at least four sections chosen from any of the following three courses:

• Commercial Trusts Law
• Equity and Trusts in Context
• International and Comparative Trust Law

To receive the Postgraduate Diploma in Laws in the specialisation: International intellectual property law, you will need to study at least eight sections from any of the following three courses:

• Intellectual property on the internet
• International and comparative law of copyright and related rights
• International and comparative law of trade marks, designs and unfair competition

To receive the Master of Laws (LLM) in the specialisation: Banking and Finance Law you will need to study at least three courses (twelve sections) from the following four courses:

• Corporate Finance and Management Issues in Company Law
• International and Comparative Trust Law
• International Economic Law
• International Trade Law

Captain Michael Foli
LLM graduate, Ghana.

Captain Foli was called to the Ghana Bar on 1 October 2004.

"I first got the LLB as an External student and I think the LLM is just a natural progression. I chose to do it at the University of London because it provides the flexibility of working full time and studying. And, of course, the quality of the University of London degree is unmatched in the world.

I chose the External Programme because I am a full-time pilot with Ghana Airways and it is not possible to get time off work to study for this course."