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Law at the University of Essex

Photo: Graduands.The School of Law has an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. We offer opportunities for study at undergraduate (LLB), taught postgraduate (LLM) and research postgraduate (MPhil, PhD) levels. All of our degrees are taught by experts committed to excellence in legal scholarship and teaching.

The School has teaching and research interests in all areas of the legal curriculum. Our special interests include public law and human rights law at national, European and international levels; company, commercial and trade law; family, child and medical law; the laws governing the use of digital and communications technology; and humanitarian and environmental law.

As an Essex undergraduate you will find that all our LLB's are qualifying law degrees. You may study for an LLB in English Law or in Law with another subject (Human Rights, Philosophy or Politics). If you have excellent French language skills, we offer the LLB/Maîtrise through our links with Paris X Nanterre; otherwise we have range of other degrees offering the chance to study abroad.

At postgraduate level, we offer a range of LLM's including, by way of example, International Human Rights Law, International Trade Law and European Business Law (the PALLAS programme).

The PALLAS programme is a joint teaching venture of nine leading European Union Universities. This Programme has been ranked among the six best LLM courses in Europe and the ten best in the world.  It has produced graduates working across the full range of public and private sector institutions, including top international law firms in most major European countries and on other continents.  The Pallas LLM is located at Essex; lecturers come from top law firms around the world and other partner universities.  Essex is one of the founders of this inter-university LLM, designed for those thinking of a legal practice which requires knowledge of comparative European law, as well as of the norms coming from the Union itself.  Please contact Gail Howell for more information on this unique course.

For further details of all of these exciting opportunities and more please follow the links.

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