International Law, LL.M.

This course equips you with specialist knowledge in international law and helps you develop core skills necessary to support work in multiple fields of international law and take on career roles that can have global impact.  

Our teaching and learning approach uses a combination of learning methods and experiences including formal lectures, guest lectures, workshops that simulate court hearings, arbitral proceedings and negotiations for which you will play a key role to develop your academic knowledge and skills pertinent to law.  

We have strong pastoral support embedded into our programmes so that you grow in confidence as you study with us. In your welcome week you will have the opportunity to learn more about this as you meet me your course director, as well as your personal academic tutor and other module leaders on your course.

We will be with you by your side as you study with us. 

Teaching

In your first trimester you will study

Public International law

International Human Rights law

Dr Narissa Ramsundar is your module leader for both these modules.

You will have 8 hours of contact time with us for these two modules each week. There is 4 hours of contact time for each module.

Your learning and teaching will consist of lectures, seminars, simulated court hearings and workshops in which you engage with different learning tools as you build your international law subject knowledge and professional skills base.

Your First Few Weeks

Your first few weeks of teaching introduces you to core legal concepts and cases such as the sources of law and the nature of the legal systems in which these two disciplines operate.

Your first few weeks of teaching will also involve some early skills-based work around research, writing and case analysis and application to resolve legal problems.

These skills will be honed as you progress on the course, but in the first few weeks we get some foundational skills based embedded so that you start off on a good foundation.

Blackboard

We use Blackboard as part of our learning and teaching experience. This is a virtual environment in which we upload your lectures, reading materials, short films/videos and assessments. We also do some online sessions here as well, so it remains a great repository for your study.

To help you prepare

Please do look at the modules and information on our Learning Hub before joining us.

You can also prepare a personal timetable that sets out the time you will allocate every week for research, study, class attendance and any part time work or recreation you will need. Build in time as well for eating, exercising and engaging socially.

This will help you as you start off, so you have a good idea of how to support your time management on the course. We will review in class as well.

• ​​Jan Klabbers International law (4th ed Cambridge University Press 2023)
• ​Malcolm Evans International law (Oxford University Press 2024)
• ​D Moeckli, S Shah, S Sivakumaran, D Harris ' International Human Rights Law' ( Oxford University Press 2022)

If you can access these books, do look at the introductory chapters in each. I recommend them for purchase, but copies will be available for your use in the library as well.