University of Essex

Program Information

Degree Offered

LL.M

Format: Campus

Program Description:

Our LLM Internet Law should interest well qualified students from all over the world with relevant industry and regulatory experience. Our unique mix of modules provides you with an opportunity to experience the entire range of ‘converged’ legal skills for the digital information environment of the twenty-first century. Small class sizes ensure excellent staff-student research interaction and our staff are a unique international team of comparative lawyers, with our professors forming the core of EXCCEL: Essex Centre for Comparative and European Law. Our EXCCEL seminar series means you can hear from a range of external speakers from academia and regulation.

This LLM examines the convergence of communications media which has raised legal problems about access to, and use of, telecommunications networks, the Internet and broadcast media. Your first term core module identifies the regulatory and private law framework within which the communication and information technology industries operate, and you write your dissertation on a topic of your choice within the field of information technology, media and e-commerce.

Our School of Law has an international reputation for providing a legal education of the highest quality. In particular, in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, December 2008) 90 per cent of our research was rated as of ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘internationally recognised’ quality.

Accreditation:

Postgraduate study qualification from the University of Essex.

Eligibility Requirements:

A good Honours degree, or equivalent, in a relevant subject area.

International Student Requirements:

IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No