Where could a law degree take you?
We believe that a degree in law will empower our graduates to make positive contributions and changes within society, and across an array of sectors and professions.
Taught Masters Programmes
General Law
This programme is aimed at those students who do not wish to select a specialist LLM but who wish to study law at an advanced level. Students are given the opportunity to select a range of course modules from across the LLM specialist degrees.
Continue your study of law to an advanced level without the limitations of a specialist LLM. General Law offers a wide range of course modules from our other postgraduate degrees so that you’re able to tailor your studies to your own requirements.
Energy & Environment
A current global challenge is the provision of sufficient energy at appropriate prices to promote and sustain growth, whilst accommodating environmental, climate, and social justice concerns. Law has a key role to play at all stages of energy development, transport, and consumption. Energy law regulates relationships between consumers and producers, industry actors, as well as between states trading the resources. Because of its excellence in energy law research, the School is able to offer a range of programmes designed to prepare lawyers in this challenging context.
Commercial & Trade Law
The Commercial and Trade Law LLM programmes at the University of Aberdeen present students with an opportunity to mould their study of this ever-developing area. Drawing on the expertise of staff, the School of Law offers a variety of specialist courses which cater for the full spectrum of international commercial law.
- LLM International Commercial Law with Dissertation
- LLM International Commercial Law with Professional Skills
- LLM International Trade Law
- LLM International Trade Law & Treaty Negotiation with Professional Skills
- LLM Business Law and Sustainable Development
- LLM Corporate Finance and Law
- LLM International Dispute Resolution with Dissertation
- LLM International Dispute Resolution with Professional Skills
Human Rights & Criminal Justice
From the suffering generated by human trafficking to the criminalisation of harm towards civilians during war, many contemporary problems can be viewed through the lens of Human Rights, Criminal Justice or a combination of both. Our Human Rights programme allows you to undertake courses dealing with issues from a human rights perspective alone, studying the problems of creating systems of rights, enforcement, and lawful limitations on human rights. Our Criminal Justice programme also permits a focus on contemporary issues within the criminal justice system, at a domestic and international level, exploring how the obligation to enforce criminal law is balanced against other concerns, such as the rights of the accused. For students interested in both, the Criminal Justice and Human Rights programme allows a mix of courses to be studied, allowing you to focus on issues which engage with human rights and criminal justice from both perspectives.
International Intellectual Property and Information Law
This suite of programmes explores the laws relating to rewarding innovation and creativity, regulation and control of information, and the impact on society as a whole. You will have an opportunity to explore a range of topical, fascinating and multi-faceted legal and societal questions across the globe, and to examine the benefits and challenges within corporate, economic and political frameworks whilst gaining expertise in an area that is extremely valuable to businesses and policy makers.
International Law
International Law has become increasingly important in a more globalised, interconnected world. This interconnection makes an understanding of international rules, from those which govern commercial transactions to the law on the use of force, of increasing significance for lawyers. The School of Law has a long tradition of research excellence in International Law, and our programmes reflect our diverse experience in both private and public international law. We also collaborate with the School of Social Sciences to provide interdisciplinary programmes, allowing students to undertake an innovative approach to their studies by combining international law with either international relations or strategic studies. Each of our programmes prepares students for a career in international organisations, international courts and tribunals, and international legal practice more generally.
