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Course Title:
LLM European Union Law

Entry Criteria:
A good upper second class honours degree in Law or its equivalent, or an honours degree and substantial practical experience in a field related to the course. Where English is not the mother tongue, IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 230/570.
[If an applicant does not meet the specified criteria, he or she may discuss the application with the Head of Postgraduate Admissions.]

Admissions:
Please see the postgraduate prospectus for further information. Any queries can be directed to pgadmit@essex.ac.uk or by telephone: 01206 872719.

English Language Requirements:
Non-UK students are generally required to produce evidence of proficiency in the English Language. We are able to take into account some school or other English Language grades as well as IELTS or similar. Please contact us if you have queries.

Information for Prospective Postgraduates:

LLM European Union Law

StudentsFinal Award: LLM, Master
Mode of study: Full time or part time
Location: Colchester Campus

Aims and Objectives

The course aims to provide students with an advanced conceptual understanding, which is informed by insight based on scholarship at the forefront of the discipline, of the methods, techniques and legal principles regarding European Union law; set the relevant law and policy in its business and global contexts; develop critical, analytical and research skills, and transferable skills; and produce graduates capable of working in the field of European Union law as lawyers, regulators, legal advisers or researchers with governments and international and business organisations (including the EU administration), and as academics.

The LLM in European Union Law has three elements: modules, essays and a dissertation. The first six months are spent doing the modules and writing the essays. The dissertation is written during the period April to September.

Students are required to take the equivalent of eight half modules. Generally speaking, a module lasting one term is worth half a module and a module lasting two terms is a full module; a non-law module lasting three terms, however, is worth one full module.

Course Structure

Optional Modules:

European Competition Law (LW702)
Intellectual Property Law in the European Community (LW703)
Free Movement of Goods and Services in the Internal Market (LW705)
European Community External Relations (LW706)
European Environmental Law (LW709)
European Community Employment Law (LW711)
The Economics of the European Union (LW715)
Philosophy, Political Theory and the European Union (LW716)
The Enlargement of the European Union (LW718)

Further information is available from the University's Module Directory.

Dissertation

The dissertation must be of a length approximately 15,000 – 20,000 words. The topic for the dissertation is determined by the student in agreement with the supervisor early in the third term. Supervision and writing of the dissertation takes place in the third term and over the summer period. The dissertation must be submitted by mid-September.

Assessment

Assessment for all Law LLM courses is by means of assessed essays. Options on other LLM’s may be examined by other methods appropriate to the module in question.

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