THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

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Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students studying full time take 60 credits (three courses) in the September semester and 60 credits (three courses) in the January semester, followed by the dissertation at the end of the January semester.

120 taught credits must be completed before embarking on the dissertation stage. The dissertation is compulsory and must be taken on completion of the taught element of the programme (ie 120 credits/six courses).

For further information see:
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/online-masters-degrees/llm-law

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.
* Please note there are no unrestricted intellectual property law courses in Group B running in 2023/24.

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.**

For guidance on which courses belong to which subject area, please see: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/online-masters-degrees/llm-law

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 LAWS11487 and LAWS11488 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
Notes:
Please note that there are no unrestricted Group B Intellectual Property Law courses running during 2023/24.
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.**


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