Programme structure: Health, Law, and Society (LLM) - what's running in 2024/25

This degree is also offered to students (usually from Medicine, Dentistry, or Veterinary Science) as an intercalating award, normally taken after 3 years of study.

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Teaching Block
Students on the Health, Law and Society LLM will take two mandatory and two optional units worth 120 credits, plus a mandatory 60 credit Dissertation and Legal Skills unit (which runs over TB1 and TB2). Optional units are taken in TB2; students must take at least one List A unit, the second unit can either be another List A unit, a List B unit or a foundation unit (if the student has not previously studied in a common law jurisdiction).
Dissertation and Legal Research Skills LAWDM0177 60 Mandatory AYEAR
TEACHING BLOCK 1: Students take two mandatory units in TB1 worth 60 credits.
Health Inequalities, Law, and Society LAWDM0130 30 Mandatory TB-1
Law, Governance and Health LAWDM0134 30 Mandatory TB-1
TEACHING BLOCK 2: Students take two optional units in TB2 worth 60 credits.
TB2 - List A
Public and Global Health Law LAWDM0131 30 Optional TB-2
Law and Governance for Mental and Social Well-Being LAWDM0132 30 Optional TB-2
Health Law and the Body LAWDM0133 30 Optional TB-2
TB2 - List B
Law Gender and Sexuality LAWDM0033 30 Optional TB-2
International Law and Human Rights LAWDM0123 30 Optional TB-2
Workers, Unions and Collective Labour Rights LAWDM0149 30 Optional TB-2
International Investment Law LAWDM0152 30 Optional TB-2
Financial Markets and Bank Regulation LAWDM0157 30 Optional TB-2
International Law and Armed Conflict LAWDM0158 30 Optional TB-2
Climate Law LAWDM0162 30 Optional TB-2
Digital Markets, Competition and Regulation LAWDM0163 30 Optional TB-2
Advanced Intellectual Property Law LAWDM0165 30 Optional TB-2
Corporate Governance in a Global Context LAWDM0175 30 Optional TB-2
Advanced Information Technology Law LAWDM0181 30 Optional TB-2
Privacy and Data Protection Law: Theory and Practice LAWDM0183 30 Optional TB-2
International Commercial Arbitration LAWDM1005 30 Optional TB-2
TB2 - Foundation units
Law of Tort LAWDM0062 30 Optional TB-2
Land Law LAWDM0075 30 Optional TB-2
Constitutional and Substantive EU Law LAWDM0088 30 Optional TB-2
Trusts LAWDM0140 30 Optional TB-2
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Award requirements

The pass mark set by the University for any level 7 unit is 50 out of 100.

For detailed rules on the award of credit, reassessment and award of a qualification please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Degree classifications:

A classification will be awarded in the following qualifications:

  • Taught postgraduate Masters degree, including a Master of Research (MRes)
  • Postgraduate Diplomas and Certificates where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications
  • Exit awards of Postgraduate Diplomas and Certificates in designated programmes (as described in the programme specification) where students choose to withdraw from the intended programme but otherwise achieve the necessary credit points for the exit award.

A classification is not awarded for exit awards where students are required to withdraw from the programme on academic grounds.

The overall final programme mark is calculated as the average of all unit marks in the programme, weighted by credit point value.

The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:

  • Distinction = final programme mark of 70+
  • Merit = final programme mark of 60-69
  • Pass = final programme mark of 50-59
  • Fail = final programme mark of 49 or less

* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.

Diploma/certificate stages:

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 100 must be at level 7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level 7.

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