Postgraduate Prospectus

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Clara Sandoval, LLB Javeriana,
Colombia, MA PhD Essex (Senior
Lecturer and co-convenor of Essex
Transitional Justice Network)
International human rights law; legal
theory; public international law;
inter-American system for the protection
of human rights; transitional justice and
business and human rights
Scott Sheeran, LLB BCom Otago, LLM
Cambridge, Barrister Solicitor NZ
(Lecturer)
Public international law; law of
international peacekeeping; United
Nations law and practice; international
human rights law
Peter Stone, MA LLB Cambridge,
Barrister (Professor)
EC law; conflict of laws; intellectual
property law
Maurice Sunkin, LLM London, PhD
Essex, Barrister (Professor)
Public law (especially judicial review);
environmental planning law
Jane Wright, LLB LLM London, Solicitor
(Professor)
Common law; comparative law; civil
liberties; international and UK human
rights law; minority rights
to develop an integrated understanding of
the points of contact between the world
economy and human rights, providing a
grounding in the institutions, processes,
and values involved.
LLM International Trade Law•
This specialist course in business and
commercial law enables you to analyse
cutting-edge and topical issues, while
improving your knowledge and writing skills.
Focusing on the international dimension,
you explore the legal issues and pertinent
regulatory principles in the trade transaction
and the broad spectrum of related services.
We encourage you to tailor this course
to suit your own interests by giving
you options with the modules you take,
the questions you attempt and your
dissertation topic.
LLM Internet Law•
This LLM should interest well-qualified
students from all over the world with
relevant industry and regulatory experience.
Our unique mix of modules provide you
with an opportunity to experience the entire
range of ‘converged’ legal skills for the
digital information environment of the
twenty-first century. Small class sizes
ensure excellent staff-student research
interaction and our staff are a unique
international team of comparative lawyers,
with our professors forming the core of
EXCCEL: Essex Centre for Comparative
and European Law. Our EXCCEL seminar
series means you can hear from a range
of external speakers from academia
and regulation.
Our LLM Internet Law examines the
convergence of communications media
which has raised legal problems about
access to, and use of, telecommunications
networks, the Internet and broadcast media.
Your first term core module identifies the
regulatory and private law framework within
which the communication and information
technology industries operate, and you
write your dissertation on a topic of your
choice within the field of information
technology, media and e-commerce.
LLM UK Human Rights and Public Law•
Public law and domestic human rights law
are currently two of the most dynamic areas
of law. The Human Rights Act (1998), the
growth in judicial review and the expansion
of regulatory systems constitutional reforms
present many new challenges and
opportunities for lawyers and courts.
Our course will be particularly attractive if
you are in the UK but should also appeal
if you are from the Commonwealth or other
common law jurisdictions, or from other
member states of the EU. While our primary
focus is UK law, opportunities exist for you
to pursue modules in comparative law and
international protection of human rights.
At a time when the UK is undergoing
immense constitutional change with
respect to human rights and devolution, and
when judicial review of government action
is resorted to with increasing regularity, our
LLM UK Human Rights and Public Law
provides you with essential in depth
coverage taught by academics who are
leading scholars in this field.
Postgraduate Diplomas
We do not admit students on to diplomas
but they are sometimes awarded, based on
a student’s performance on their LLM.
Research study
We have an international reputation
for excellence in research and teaching,
and our academics are at the cutting
edge of scholarship. We build on our
areas of success to foster an environment
conducive to the highest quality research
founded in legal theory and practice
including socio-legal studies.
Our research students are encouraged
to play a participative role in our activities,
which include seminars at which speakers
from home and abroad present ideas.
About our research degrees
We offer research degrees, either PhD or
MPhil, in most fields of law. You are initially
admitted to read for an MPhil and, subject
to satisfactory progress, transferred to
our PhD track during your second year.
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