Master of Laws (LLM) – Modules
Explore the full list of modules for the UCL Master of Laws (LLM) for the 2026/27 academic year, including core and specialist pathway modules across all LLM specialisms.
This page offers the latest module list for the UCL Master of Laws (LLM), whether you are studying the general degree or focusing on a specific pathway.
With a wide choice of qualifying modules, you can tailor your LLM in line with your academic interests and career goals, subject to availability. Please note:
- The modules listed on this page apply to the 2026/27 Academic Year. Availability varies from year to year, and some modules have limited places.
- All students must complete 180 credits to graduate, comprising taught modules and a 45-credit (9,000-word) Research Essay.
- Specialist LLM students must take at least 60 credits from their pathway’s modules and write their essay in that subject area.
Common LLM modules
These modules are open to all LLM students and can be taken alongside specialism-specific modules for the 2026/27 academic year, subject to availability.
- Access to Justice: Theory & Practice (22.5 credit)
- Advanced Foundations of Environmental Law (22.5 credit)
- Advanced Foundations of International Law of Foreign Investment (22.5 credit)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (45 credit)
- Bioethics Governance (22.5 credit)
- Carriage of Goods by Sea (22.5 credit)
- Children and their Rights (22.5 credit)
- Civil Dispute Resolution: Civil Courts, Procedure and Litigation (45 credit)
- Commercial Remedies (45 credit)
- Comparative Constitutional Law (22.5 credit)
- Comparative Corporate Governance (45 credit)
- Comparative Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- Competition Law (EU & UK) (45 credit)
- Competition Law and the State (22.5 credit)
- Competition Law Enforcement in Europe (22.5 credit)
- Competition Law, Regulation and the Intangible Economy (22.5 credit)
- Constitutional Theory (22.5 credit)
- Corporate Finance (45 credit)
- Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring (45 credit)
- Corporations, Finance and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (45 credit)
- Data Law and Algorithmic Regulation (45 credit)
- Decolonizing Law (45 credit)
- Environmental Law in the Global South (22.5 credit)
- Financial Crime and Process (45 credit)
- Foreign Relations Law (22.5 credit)
- Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues (45 credit)
- Global Competition and Litigation (22.5 credit)
- Human Rights at Work (22.5 credit)
- Insurance Law and Risk (45 credit)
- International and Comparative Secured Transactions (45 credit)
- International & Commercial Trusts Law (45 credit)
- International and Global Environmental Law (22.5 credit)
- International Arbitration (45 credit)
- International Commercial Litigation (45 credit)
- International Criminal Law (45 credit)
- International Human Rights Law (running as 45 credits in 26/27)
- International Trade Law (45 credit)
- Introduction to the International Laws of the Sea (22.25 credit)
- Investment Services, Funds and Asset Management (22.5 credit)
- Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition(45 credit)
- Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition A (22.5 credit)
- Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making (45 credit)
- Judicial Review (22.5 credit)
- Jurisprudence & Legal Theory (45 credit)
- Jurisprudence & Legal Theory A (22.5 credit)
- Land Use, Sustainability and Environmental Justice (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of Climate Change (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Trade and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Law of Copyright and Related Rights (45 credit)
- Law of Patents (45 credit)
- Law of Treaties (22.5 credit)
- Legal Aspects of International Finance (45 credit)
- Marine Insurance (45 credit) – please note that this module the description relates to 2025-26 and may be subject to change in 2026-27
- Media and Information Law: From Press to Platforms (45 credit)
- National Security Law (45 credit)
- Private Equity (45 credit)
- Religion, State and Law (22.5 credit)
- Restitution of Unjust Enrichment (45 credit)
- Sexuality and the Law (22.5 credit)
- The Law and Regulation of Banks and FinTech Services (45 credit)
- Trade Marks and Unfair Competition in the UK, Europe and the United States (45 credit)
Specialism-specific modules
Below are the qualifying modules for each LLM specialism for the 2026/27 academic year. Students specialising must take a minimum of 60 credits from the list for their specialism.
- Comparative Constitutional Law (22.5 credit)
- Comparative Corporate Governance (45 credit)
- Comparative Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- Competition Law, Regulation and the Intangible Economy (22.5 credit)
- Global Competition and Litigation (22.5 credit)
- Law of Copyright and Related Rights (45 credit)
- International and Comparative Secured Transactions (45 credit)
- Religion, State and Law (22.5 credit)
- Trade Marks and Unfair Competition in the UK, Europe and the United States (45 credit)
- Competition Law (EU & UK) (45 credit)
- Competition Law and the State (22.5 credit)
- Competition Law Enforcement in Europe (22.5 credit)
- Competition Law, Regulation and the Intangible Economy (22.5 credit)
- Global Competition and Litigation (22.5 credit)
- Comparative Corporate Governance (45 credit)
- Corporate Finance (45 credit)
- Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring (45 credit)
- Corporations, Finance and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (running as 45 credit in 26/27)
- International and Comparative Secured Transactions
- International Law of Foreign Investment (22.5 credit)
- Legal Aspects of International Finance (45 credit)
- Private Equity (45 credit)
- Advanced Foundations of Environmental Law (22.5 credit)
- Corporations, Finance and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Environmental Law in the Global South (22.5 credit)
- International and Global Environmental Law (22.5 credit)
- Land Use, Sustainability and Environmental Justice (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of Climate Change (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Trade and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Access to Justice: Theory & Practice (22.5 credit)
- National Security Law (45 credit)
- Children and their Rights (45 credit)
- Comparative Constitutional Law (22.5 credit)
- Comparative Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- Decolonizing Law (45 credit)
- Gender Law and the State: Current Legal Issues (45 credit)
- Human Rights at Work (22.5 credit)
- International Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making (45 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals (22.5 credit)
- Media and Information Law: From Press to Platforms (45 credit)
- Religion, State and Law (22.5 credit)
- Competition Law, Regulation and the Intangible Economy (45 credit)
- Law of Copyright and Related Rights (45 credit)
- Law of Patents (45 credit)
- Trade Marks and Unfair Competition in the UK, Europe and the United States (45 credit)
- Corporate Finance (45 credit)
- Corporations, Finance and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring (45 credit)
- Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (45 credit)
- Financial Crime and Process (45 credit)
- Insurance Law and Risk (45 credit)
- International and Comparative Secured Transactions (45 credit)
- International & Commercial Trusts Law
- Investment Services, Funds and Asset Management (22.5 credit)
- Legal Aspects of International Finance (45 credit)
- The Law and Regulation of Banks and FinTech Services (45 credit)
- Private Equity (45 credit)
- Carriage of Goods by Sea (22.5 credit)
- Commercial Remedies (45 credit)
- Corporations, Finance and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (45 credit)
- Insurance Law and Risk(45 credit)
- International & Commercial Trusts Law(45 credits)
- International and Comparative Secured Transactions (45 credit)
- International Arbitration (45 credit)
- International Commercial Litigation (45 credit)
- International Trade Law (45 credit)
- Legal Aspects of International Finance (45 credit)
- Restitution of Unjust Enrichment (45 credit)
- The Law and Regulation of Banks and FinTech Services (45 credit)
- Decolonizing Law (45 credit)
- Foreign Relations Law (22.5 credit)
- International and Global Environmental Law (22.5 credit)
- International Commercial Litigation (45 credit)
- International Criminal Law (45 credit)
- International Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- International Law of Foreign Investment (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals (22.5 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Trade and the Environment (22.5 credit)
- Law of Treaties (22.5 credit)
- Constitutional Theory (22.5 credit)
- Decolonizing Law (45 credit)
- Gender Law and the State: Current Legal Issues (45 credit)
- Human Rights at Work (22.5 credit)
- Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition (45 credit)
- Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition A(22.5 credit)
- Jurisprudence & Legal Theory (45 credit)
- Jurisprudence & Legal Theory A (22.5 credit)
- Sexuality and the Law (22.5 credit)
- Access to Justice: Theory & Practice (22.5 credit)
- Bioethics Governance (22.5 credit)
- Children and their Rights (22.5 credit)
- Decolonizing Law (45 credit)
- Financial Crime and Process (45 credit)
- Gender Law and the State: Current Legal Issues (45 credit)
- Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making (45 credit)
- International Criminal Law (45 credit)
- Sexuality and the Law (22.5 credit)
- Decolonizing Law (45 credit)
- Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition (45 credit)
- Jeremy Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition A (22.5 credit)
- Access to Justice: Theory & Practice (22.5 credit)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (45 credit)
- Civil Dispute Resolution - Civil Courts, Procedure and Litigation (45 credit)
- Global Competition and Litigation (22.5 credit)
- International Arbitration (45 credit)
- International & Commercial Trusts Law (45 credit)
- International Commercial Litigation (45 credit)
- Judicial Review (22.5 credit)
- Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making (45 credit)
- Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals (22.5 credit)
- National Security Law (45 credit)
- Carriage of Goods by Sea (22.5 credit)
- Marine Insurance (45 credit) – please note that this module the description relates to 2025-26 and may be subject to change in 2026-27
- International Trade Law (45 credit)
- Access to Justice: Theory & Practice (22.5 credit)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Bioethics Governance (22.5 credit)
- Civil Dispute Resolution: Civil Courts, Procedure and Litigation (45 credit)
- Comparative Constitutional Law (22.5 credit)
- Comparative Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- Constitutional Theory (22.5 credit)
- Data Law and Algorithmic Regulation (45 credit)
- Foreign Relations Law (22.5 credit)
- Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues
- Human Rights at Work (running as 22.5 credit in 26/27)
- International and Global Environmental Law (22.5 credit)
- International Human Rights Law (45 credit)
- Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making (45 credit)
- Judicial Review (22.5 credit)
- National Security Law (45 credit)
- Religion, State and Law (22.5 credit)
- Competition Law, Regulation and the Intangible Economy (22.5 credit)
- Data Law and Algorithmic Regulation (45 credit)
- Law of Copyright and Related Rights (45 credit)
- Law of Patents (45 credit)
- Media and Information Law: From Press to Platforms (45 credit)
- National Security Law (45 credit)
- The Law and Regulation of Banks and FinTech Services (45 credit)
Planning your modules
- We recommend planning your module selection and Research Essay early. You will select your modules during pre-enrolment, before arriving at UCL.
- Choose modules that align with your career goals and potential Research Essay topic. Some modules are year-long; others run in Term One or Term Two only.
- If a module is oversubscribed, priority may go to students in the relevant specialism.
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Changes and cancellations
We review our modules regularly to ensure they reflect current developments in law and research. Modules may be added or withdrawn, and convenors and assessment methods may change. Final confirmation of modules is given at the start of the academic year.
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