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Postgraduate Study

6 courses offered in the Faculty of Law

The MCL is an academically rigorous master's programme taught by the Cambridge Law Faculty's team of corporate lawyers, widely recognised as one of the strongest in the corporate law field.  The MCL offers students the opportunity to engage in a detailed study of the legal and regulatory framework within which companies are governed and financed.  In so doing it combines practical insights with an academic approach.  The MCL, therefore, constitutes an ideal graduate programme both for those intending to enter or progress within corporate practice and for those who are planning a career in academia.

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The Postgraduate Diploma in International Law may be awarded by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Law to a candidate who, after one year of independent research in Cambridge on an approved topic within the field of international law, submits for examination a thesis not exceeding 30,000 words inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of appendices and bibliography. Students are assigned a supervisor by the Faculty's Degree Committee. There is no coursework or formal teaching although students are encouraged to attend the weekly (term-time) classes provided by the Faculty's Research Training and Development Programme. The course can also be taken on a part-time basis over two years.

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The LLM is a nine-month taught master’s degree with a potential dissertation element of 25 per cent.  It offers highly qualified and academically outstanding students the opportunity to pursue their legal studies at an advanced level in an intellectually challenging and supportive environment.  The Cambridge programme has rich historical traditions and attracts common law and civil law students of the highest calibre from approximately 50 jurisdictions.  It is intended for those wishing to pursue further legal studies after completing their first degree in law.  Applicants include both recent graduates considering an academic career or intending to practise law and those already in practice seeking to broaden their intellectual horizons. 

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The PhD in Law may be awarded after three to four years of full-time study or five to seven years of part-time study (including a probationary period) of supervised independent research on the basis of a thesis not exceeding 100,000 words exclusive of bibliography, table of contents and any other preliminary matter.  Students are appointed a principal supervisor by the Faculty's Degree Committee as well as an adviser to act as a source of advice on matters relating to a student's research and research environment.  If the project is interdisciplinary, a second supervisor may be appointed. It is a requirement of the first year of study that students attend, in term-time only, the research training classes provided by the Faculty's Research Training and Development Programme.  

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The MLitt degree may be awarded after two years of supervised independent research (or a proportionally longer period if undertaken on a part-time basis) and following examination of a thesis not exceeding 60,000 words inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of appendices, bibliography, table of contents and any other preliminary matter. Candidates for the MLitt are registered in the first instance for the Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Legal Studies which provides training in legal research and must attend, during term-time only, the weekly classes provided by the Faculty's Research Training and Development Programme that offer instruction on research techniques and advice on matters such as getting work published and obtaining academic jobs.

 

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The Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies may be awarded by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Law to a candidate who, after one year of independent research in Cambridge on an approved topic within the field of law, submits for examination a thesis not exceeding 30,000 words inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of appendices and bibliography.

Students are assigned a supervisor by the Faculty's Degree Committee. There is no coursework or formal teaching although students are encouraged to attend the weekly classes provided by the Faculty's Research Training and Development Programme. The course can also be taken on a part-time basis over two years.

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Professor Mark Elliott
Head of Department

  • 90 Academic Staff
  • 290 Graduate Students
  • 750 Undergraduates

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