University of Edinburgh
School of Law
University of Edinburgh
From its location at the heart of Scotland’s capital, the University of Edinburgh has been providing outstanding educational opportunities for over 400 years.
With some 240 taught postgraduate programmes, the University offers a wealth of PGT opportunities. Students benefit from world-class teaching in a cutting-edge research environment. The Times Higher World University Rankings placed Edinburgh in the world’s top 25 universities.
The Law School
1707 marked the foundation of the Faculty of Law, now known as the School of Law, which is situated in historic Old College in the heart of Edinburgh, minutes from both the Law Courts and Scotland’s Parliament.
The City of Edinburgh has been a major centre for Law since the middle ages, and for over 300 years the University has trained generations of the world’s finest legal minds, sustaining a history of fine legal scholarship and education since that time.
Today the School is larger and more diverse than ever. With a dynamic, outward-looking and research active ethos, and several specialist research centres, the School attracts and retains leading as well as promising young legal scholars in both well-established and emerging fields.
The high standing of the School has been confirmed by a succession of recent government surveys which have invariably found the School to be a centre of international excellence in research.
LLM Programmes Available:
Law
Commercial Law
European Law
Information Technology Law (Distance Learning)
Innovation Technology & the Law
Innovation Technology & the Law (Distance Learning)
Intellectual Property Law (Distance Learning)
International Law
Legal Research
Medical Law & Ethics (Distance Learning)
MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice
On campus courses - www.law.ed.ac.uk/pg/
Distance learning Courses - www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/teaching/llm/
Entry Requirements
The programmes follow the standard requirements for postgraduate study at The University of Edinburgh, generally a 2.1 (i.e. upper second) honours degree or equivalent, with prescribed certificates in English skills if necessary. Other qualifications will be considered on an individual basis. All qualifications must be from a recognised higher education institution.
Areas of research expertise at Edinburgh Law School include:
Intellectual property and information technology law
Medical law and medical ethics
European Union law and institutions
International law, including human rights, international criminal law, international environmental law, and the law of the sea
Criminology, criminal justice, and criminal law
Legal theory and socio-legal studies
European private and commercial law
Comparative law
Property law
Public law, including constitutional and administrative law
Roman law and legal history
Research Centres in the School of Law include:
SCRIPT - AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law - The Centre is a leading centre for interdisciplinary teaching and research in law and technologies in the broadest sense. Particular strengths include intellectual property, information technology and medical law.
Centre for Law and Society - A research centre specialising in legal theory, criminology, and socio-legal studies.
Centre for Legal History - The aim of the Centre is to encourage and foster the study of legal history in general, with particular attention being paid to Scots law and to Roman law in the broader civilian context.
Europa Institute - The Institute is the focus of interdisciplinary studies of European issues within the university, bringing together the perspectives of law, economics, and political science.
Scottish Centre for International Law - The Centre hosts conferences and seminars and promotes research in international law.
Contact
University of Edinburgh
School of Law
Postgraduate Office
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)131 650 2010
F: +44 (0)131 650 6317
E: law.pg@ed.ac.uk (for on-campus)
llm.distance@ed.ac.uk (for distance learning)
