Durham Law Sch ool Ranked 5th Pos tgraduate study oppo rtunities 2 01 2/13 for Law by The Independent Complete World-class taught and research degrees to PhD University Guide 2 01 2. 5th for Law by The Independent Complete University Guide 201 2. Law Durham Law School is a centre of international excellence in both legal scholarship and research. A Durham postgraduate Law qualification will provide you with an excellent foundation for a career in the legal profession. ABOUT THE SCHOOL The main part of the Law School is MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH Durham Law School was ranked fourth located just a few yards from Durham’s The Durham Law School is one of highest Law School in the UK in the ancient castle and from our own the UK’s leading centres for legal 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, dedicated law library. Our postgraduate research and provides a dynamic and having returned 100% of its staff in office is opposite the County Court. vibrant environment for developing the RAE. The ranking is based on the Our excellent library resources include your research interests. percentage of submissions graded 4* electronic access to journals, case law The following is a brief overview of the (world-class). and update services through databases major areas of research in the School, such as HeinOnline, Westlaw, Durham Law School has particular but these are not the only areas in which LexisNexis and other Butterworths’ strength in the areas represented by our staff are research active. We would packages, as well as hundreds of direct the Human Rights Centre (HRC), the encourage you to refer to staff profiles electronic law journal subscriptions. Institute for Commercial and Corporate on our website for further information Law (ICCL), the Centre for Criminal RESEARCH DEGREES about individual research interests. Law and Criminal Justice (CCLCJ), • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) • English private and commercial law: the Durham European Law Institute • Master of Philosophy (MPhil) particularly international trade law, (DELI), the Centre for Gender and Law • Master of Jurisprudence (MJur). corporate law, contract law, tort law, at Durham (GLAD) and the Law and law and economics, restitution, Conflict at Durham (LCD) cluster. equity, Europeanisation of private law, consumer law and commercial fraud and intellectual property • UK public law: particularly human rights, comparative constitutional law, separation of powers and scrutiny of security services 2 For further details visit: www.durham.ac.uk/law For further details visit: www.durham.ac.uk/law 3 • Law and medicine: particularly RECENT THESIS TITLES TYPICAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR the international aspects of these areas General LLM bioethics and intellectual • “Recognition of violations of woman’s FOR RESEARCH DEGREES POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH of legal knowledge and practice. This programme gives you the widest property issues Human Rights under the European • MJur: Law degree with at least STUDENTS choice of modules. It is ideal if you wish Students attending the programme convention on Human Rights a good upper second class Honours Funding opportunities are notified on to select modules from those available • Human rights: particularly the Human are drawn from a broad range of in the context of restrictive (or equivalent) the School’s website as they become in each of the specialised LLM Rights Act, counter-terrorism issues, countries, and their previous academic Abortion Regimes” available at www.durham.ac.uk/law/ programmes. Having completed your media freedom, religious liberty, • PhD, MPhil: Law degree with at least or professional experiences enrich the postgraduate/finances/funding taught modules, you will undertake an international human rights law • “Rape and the Civil Law: a good upper second class Honours (or programme. The School is host to the extended dissertation of 10,000, and discrimination law An alternative route to justice” equivalent); strong preference The University also has a range of Institute of Commercial and Corporate 15,000 or 20,000 words in length, • Criminal law and criminal justice: • “The EU-China relations as a is given to those who also have a funding opportunities for postgraduate Law, and students on the LLM are under the supervision of a member of particularly international criminal law, paradigm of WTO contingent trade recognised Masters degree for which students. To find out what support you encouraged to participate in its activities. staff who is an expert in your chosen criminology and corporate liability. The protection under the transitional we normally expect an average grade could be eligible to receive see our LLM in European Trade and field of research. Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal mechanisms” of at least 65% (or equivalent). online funding database at Commercial Law Justice is currently engaged in a www.durham.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ Teaching is by a mixture of lectures • “A critique of Human Rights ENGLISH LANGUAGE This programme provides an opportunity project on Islamic Criminal Justice fees/search and smaller student-led seminars. The protection for suspects in the REQUIREMENTS: to develop an advanced knowledge dissertation is pursued by independent • Public international law: particularly Chinese Criminal Justice System” • IELTS of 7.0 (on every component) There will often be opportunities of the law of the European Union, research under the guidance of a international human rights law, • “The protection and disclosure of or equivalent. for research students to teach with particular emphasis upon its supervisor. You will benefit from the international humanitarian law, medical confidentiality in Court undergraduates, and all research commercial aspects. If you are new to We welcome applications from excellent resources available through the conflict studies, international proceedings in Thailand ”. students must undergo a programme European law, there is a (compulsory) holders of international qualifications. School’s dedicated law library, and are criminal law and WTO law of teacher training. foundation course providing a solid POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH FACILITIES For advice on the equivalency of encouraged to participate in the many • Legal theory: particularly moral grounding in the subject. Having In addition to dedicated research international qualifications and TAUGHT PROGRAMMES activities undertaken by the School’s philosophy, socio-legal studies completed your choice of taught training facilities for postgraduate further information on English LLM in International Trade and research clusters. Please note that we and theory of international law modules, you will then undertake an research, we also provide postgraduate language requirements, please Commercial Law regularly introduce new modules, and not extended dissertation on a European • EU law: particularly constitutional student workrooms with extensive IT contact our International Office on This programme offers students from all modules may be available each year. law topic of your choice. The School law, external trade, competition law, facilities, support for attendance at [email protected] a wide variety of backgrounds the is host to the Durham European Law TYPICAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Third Pillar matters external conferences and student-led or visit our website at opportunity to develop their legal Institute, and you are encouraged to FOR TAUGHT PROGRAMMES • Gender and law: particularly research seminars. All research students www.durham.ac.uk/international knowledge and skills in some of the participate in its many activities. The • A good 2:1 degree (or its equivalent) discrimination, women in the legal are attached to the School’s research most intellectually challenging and library, which includes a European in Law, or in a degree in which law professions, equality and diversity, clusters and centres, which run regular practically relevant areas of trade Documentation Centre, has extensive is a major component. gender and crime. seminars in which research students and commercial law. The course holdings of European materials. are required to deliver papers. has a particular emphasis upon 4 For further details visit: www.durham.ac.uk/law For further details visit: www.durham.ac.uk/law 5 ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY KEY INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS For further information on career options Durham Law School recruits around • IELTS of 7.0 (on every component) and employability, including the results 175 undergraduate and 100 taught or equivalent. of the Destination of Leavers survey, postgraduate students each year. In student and employer testimonials and addition, there are over 47 postgraduate We welcome applications from details of work experience and study research students. Our complement of holders of international qualifications. abroad opportunities, please visit over 30 full-time members of staff within For advice on the equivalency of www.durham.ac.uk/law/postgraduate/ the Law School, many of whom teach international qualifications and employability on the LLM programmes, is comprised further information on English of researchers of distinction and high language requirements, please reputation, as well as a number of contact our International Office on promising early career researchers. Before joining Durham University I did a lot of research into the institutions that offered [email protected] Students can, however, undertake their Max Meltzer law and discovered that Durham was highly ranked