University of Edinburgh
School of Law
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 40 universities.
The Law School
1707 marked the foundation of the Faculty of Law, now known as Edinburgh Law School, 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.
Taught LLM Programmes Available:
Research LLM Programmes Available:
- LLM (R) Law
- LLM (R) Legal Research
- LLM (R) History and Philosophy of Law
LLM Programmes by Online Distance Learning
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 international 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
- Corporate and Financial Law
Research Centres in the School of 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.
CITSEE - The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (CITSEE) is a study of the citizenship regimes of the seven successor states of the former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia).
Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law - The aim of the Centre is to foster research in Scottish, British and European commercial law and to promote excellence the teaching of commercial law (in particular with respect to our LLM in Commercial Law).
Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law – The centre provides a focal-point for research in public law at Edinburgh, addressing current constitutional developments in the United Kingdom, comparative constitutional law, constitutionalism beyond the state, and constitutional theory.
Edinburgh Centre for Private Law - The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law exists to foster and develop a tradition of private law scholarship at Edinburgh University which goes back to 1722. The Centre holds seminars, symposia and conferences, encourages research and informal discussion, and facilitates publication.
Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime - The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime is a major study of adolescent development and offending in Scotland's capital city.
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.
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.
Contact
Postgraduate Office
School of Law
The University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0)131 650 6325
F: +44 (0)131 650 6317
E: pg.law@ed.ac.uk (for on-campus)
llm.distance@ed.ac.uk (for distance learning)
