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Start date:
September 2025
Duration:
Full-time: 1 year
Part-time: 2 years
Please add an additional year if undertaking the Professional Experience Year: integrated 2-year masters.
Number of credits:
180 credits
This LLM programme is specially designed for law and non-law graduates looking to gain a master’s in law, with an emphasis in employment law and practice.
Did you know?
This programme offers you opportunities for field trips to Employment Tribunals.
Modules
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Professional Experience Year
This course also offers the option of a Professional Experience Year. This programme combines dynamic career modules with flexible placement opportunities. After completing your first year of study, you'll then complete a full year of Professional Experience training as part of your degree. This will give you real career experience. This unique opportunity offers you distinct paths to build your expertise.
Skills
Get the employment law and practice from a socio-economic perspective.
This unique LLM Employment Law and Human Resource Management will help you understand the legal framework that applies to corporate and business entities, taught by academic specialists from our Business School and Law School.
The diverse, enriching and relevant modules include:
- Sustainaibiliy and fashion
- Intellectual property
- Business and human rights
- Economic justice
You'll be taught through case studies and get exposure to ‘live’ cases within our Law School Clinic. You'll also visit the Employment Tribunal and learn from judge-led talks and presentations.
A research and professional skills module is integrated in the course, as well as an option to take an introductory module on the principles of international law.
Learning
Become a employment law and practice leader.
On our LLM Employment Law and Human Resourcemet Management is divided into three clusters:
- Employment law
- Business cluster
- Corporate social responsibility
1. The core employment law cluster consists of modules covering all of the common and fundamental aspect of employment law and practice as encountered by those working, or wishing to work, in human resources management or a specialised employment law practice.
This cluster of modules includes:
- Coverage of individual employment relations
- Termination of employment
- Dispute resolution
- How to conduct settlement negotiations, discrimination law and strategy, and whistleblowing
2. The business cluster covers complementary subjects such as:
- Financial performance management
- Leadership and change management
Advanced project management - Corporate governance
- Intellectual property law
3. The programme further incorporates contemporary, cutting edge and topical modules under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) cluster. Example modules include:
- Corporate crime and business integrity
- Business and human rights
- International tax law
Career
Take the lead in understanding employment law.
With a LLM Employment Law and Human Resource Management, you'll expand your understanding of employment law and develop specialist areas of expertise that will enhance your career prospects.
Career options include:
- Human resource management
- Specialist employment law practice for lawyers
- NGOs
- Charities
- Unions
- Entrepreneurs who what to learn about their legal obligations as an employer and business owner
The field of business and employment with an appreciation of corporate social responsibility is growing rapidly and there are significant employment opportunities in:
- Private companies
- NGOs
- Law firms
- Government departments
How our careers service supports you
Our careers support team is available to support you from the start of your studies until after you graduate.
We will help you build your CV, prepare for interviews, and meet and learn from successful graduates working at the top of their careers.
Open days
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Applying
UK postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
Specific entry requirements
Law UG 2:2 (LLB or international equivalent)
OR
Business/Economics/Finance/Accounting UG 2:2 without case-by-case assessment
OR
Other non-related UG 2:1
OR
Other non-related UG 2:2 and relevant work experience (human resource management/ legal sector/finance sector/civil service/tax sector/arbitration) with case-by-case assessment.
Relevant work experience, for example:
2 years or longer work experience in the following sectors (paid or unpaid/ managerial and non-managerial):
- Human resource management
- Trade union
- NGO or charitable organisation
- Insurance
- Finance
- Debt restructuring
- Banking
- Accountancy
- Insolvency
- Civil service
- Tax
- Arbitration
- Managerial work experience at least 2 years (paid or unpaid)
- Running own business at least 2 years
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees (UK)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| LLM | £11,025 | £5,788 |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for UK students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
September 2025 entry tuition fees (UK)
To be confirmed.
International postgraduate students apply through our direct application system.
Course subject to curriculum review and validation.
Specific entry requirements
Law UG 2:2 (LLB or international equivalent)
OR
Business/Economics/Finance/Accounting UG 2:2 without case-by-case assessment
OR
Other non-related UG 2:1
OR
Other non-related UG 2:2 and relevant work experience (human resource management/ legal sector/finance sector/civil service/tax sector/arbitration) with case-by-case assessment.
Relevant work experience, for example:
2 years or longer work experience in the following sectors (paid or unpaid/ managerial and non-managerial):
- Human resource management
- Trade union
- NGO or charitable organisation
- Insurance
- Finance
- Debt restructuring
- Banking
- Accountancy
- Insolvency
- Civil service
- Tax
- Arbitration
- Managerial work experience at least 2 years (paid or unpaid)
- Running own business at least 2 years
General entry requirements
September 2024 entry tuition fees (international)
| Level of study | Full-time | Part-time* |
| LLM | £17,325 | £9,096 |
*average fee per year
We offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries. See our 2024 financial support pages for international students.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you.
September 2025 entry tuition fees (international)
To be confirmed.
