Study Details: LLM (Master of Laws)/PGDip Full-time: 15 months (June 2012)
However, the programme structure has been designed to allow solicitors, barristers, those about to enter the legal profession and lawyers from any common law jurisdiction to convert their LPC, BPTC or other professional qualification into a masters degree by taking a short research methods course during a two week stay in Oxford and then completing a 12,000 word dissertation on a topic relevant to legal practice in your jurisdiction.
Applicants entering the programme at Part One or Part Two will normally be required to have a first or upper second class honours degree in law or its equivalent, or alternatively a distinction or merit on the Graduate Diploma in Law.
You will be eligible to join the LLM in Legal Practice at Part Two if you have an LPC equivalent to 120 M-Level credits or if you have one of the following professional legal qualifications and can show appropriate experience in legal practice:
It will also accept as incoming credit qualifications which are entry pathways to common law jurisdictions.
All students (inlcuding those with an overseas professional qualification) who have a professional legal qualification other than the LPC, should be able to demonstrate that they have either a professional legal qualification or have taken a course of study leading to a professional legal qualification in at least two of the areas of substantive legal knowledge and at least three legal skills listed below, or have practice experience of at least two of the areas of legal knowledge listed below, or in professional conduct and an appropriate specialism (eg employment law, family law, corporate finance).
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