Course summary
This course is designed for practising legal professionals, allowing you to top-up your existing legal qualifications to a full Master of Laws degree. At Worcester, we'll support you to deepen your legal knowledge within your current specialism, or you can choose to branch out into a new area of the law. You’ll learn about research methods, then apply this to plan and write a dissertation. These skills can help you stand out from the competition in your legal career. Key features
- You'll receive expert guidance on a legal research topic of your choice from experienced legal academics and professionals
- Top-up your Legal Practice Course (LPC) or Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) to a full Master of Laws degree
- Flexibly delivered part-time over 12 months, through a combination of face-to-face sessions and online learning
- The opportunity to engage fully in the life of the School of Law including attending and participating in research seminars and conferences
- Worcester rose to become the number one English university (excluding specialist institutions) for sustained employment, further study, or both, three and five years after graduation in the 2022 Government-published Longitudinal Educational Outcomes survey, having been in the top 10 in 2020 and 2021. 96% of our graduates are in work or further study 15 months after graduating (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022).
- The University of Worcester has been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Quality Education in the Times Higher Education’s University Impact Rankings every year since its inception in 2019. The University has also been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Gender Equality in all years of the rankings and currently holds the number one spot (2023).
- Worcester is a leader in sustainability and has been awarded First Class Honours in the People and Planet Green League each and every year since 2009. In 2019, the University was named Sustainability Institution of the Year in the Green Gown Awards and was Highly Commended in the global awards at the UN.
Modules
- Legal Research Methods
- Dissertation
Assessment method
The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments. Each module has one formal or ‘summative’ assessment which is graded and counts towards the overall module grade. As students on the Programme will already have completed 120 credits of postgraduate study composed of structured taught learning opportunities, the 60 credits which makeup the LLM Professional Practice (Top-Up) are devoted to the preparation for and the creation of a research project in the form of a dissertation. The assessment is divided between the plan for a dissertation in the Legal Research Methods module and the Dissertation itself. In most instances, the Research Plan will be on the same research topic as the final dissertation. However, students can undertake a different research topic if advised to do so by their supervisor. Assessments include a 3000-word research proposal for the Research Methods module and a 10000-word dissertation for the Dissertation Module.
Entry requirements
Typical students entering onto the LLM in Legal Practice (Top-Up) will have passed either the: Legal Practice Course (LPC); or Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). Or equivalent post graduate diploma legal practice qualifications.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
Please see the university website for fee details.
Provider information
University of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ