THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2018/2019
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2018

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: January

Notes:
On this route of study, students take 80 credits (4 courses) in Year 1 and 40 credits (2 courses) in Year 2. Students studying part-time must take at least one course per semester. 120 taught credits must be completed before embarking on the dissertation stage.

The dissertation is compulsory and must be taken in the student's final year on completion of the taught element of the programme (ie 120 credits/six courses).

More information is available at: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/key_information/study_durations

Please note that a minimum of 100 (five courses) and a maximum of 120 credits (six courses) must be selected from the course groups A, B, C and D for this programme.

A maximum of 40 credits (two courses) may be selected from any one of groups A, B, C and D.

Group A includes medical law subject area courses.
Group B includes intellectual property law subject area courses.
Group C includes IT law subject area courses.
Group D includes international commercial law subject area courses.

A maximum of 20 credits (one course) can be taken from the group E courses in this programme.

Group E includes courses across all four subject areas. **Please note that a course from this collection can only be taken with the approval of your Programme Director.**

Please note also that if a student has already taken two courses from a single subject area, ie two courses from one of groups A-D, they can only take a course from group E that belongs to a different subject area. For guidance on which courses belong to which subject area, please see http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/llm_in_law/modules


There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that courses LAWS11408 and LAWS11409 are co-requisites and must both be taken in the semester in which they run.
AND

Group B

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group D

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group E

Select between 0 and 20 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
**Please note that a course from this collection can only be taken with the approval of your Programme Director.**

Please note also that if a student has already taken two courses from a single subject area, ie two courses from one of Groups A-D, they could normally only take a course from Group E that belongs to a different subject area.

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: January

Notes:
On this route of study, students take 80 credits (4 courses) in Year 1 and 40 credits (2 courses) in Year 2. Students studying part-time must take at least one course per semester. 120 taught credits must be completed before embarking on the dissertation stage.

The dissertation is compulsory and must be taken in the student's final year on completion of the taught element of the programme (ie 120 credits/six courses).

More information is available at: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/key_information/study_durations

Please note that a minimum of 100 (five courses) and a maximum of 120 credits (six courses) must be selected from the course groups A, B, C and D for this programme.

A maximum of 40 credits (two courses) may be selected from any one of groups A, B, C and D.

Group A includes medical law subject area courses.
Group B includes intellectual property law subject area courses.
Group C includes IT law subject area courses.
Group D includes international commercial law subject area courses.

A maximum of 20 credits (one course) can be taken from the group E courses in this programme.

Group E includes courses across all four subject areas. **Please note that a course from this collection can only be taken with the approval of your Programme Director.**

Please note also that if a student has already taken two courses from a single subject area, ie two courses from one of groups A-D, they can only take a course from group E that belongs to a different subject area. For guidance on which courses belong to which subject area, please see http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/teaching/online_distance_learning/llm_degrees/llm_in_law/modules

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Please note that courses LAWS11408 and LAWS11409 are co-requisites and must both be taken in the semester in which they run.
AND

Group B

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group C

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group D

Select between 0 and 40 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Group E

Select between 0 and 20 credits in this group.

Courses from School(s) F - Law (Online Distance Learning) (LLM) (Full-time) - Level(s) 11

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
**Please note that a course from this collection can only be taken with the approval of your Programme Director.**

Please note also that if a student has already taken two courses from a single subject area, ie two courses from one of Groups A-D, they could normally only take a course from Group E that belongs to a different subject area.

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