University of Kent
Kent Law School

Overview
Kent Law School is a centre of world class research, offering a supportive and intellectually stimulating place to study a variety of taught and research degrees with an international and contemporary focus. Rated as the 6th best Law School in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), much of our teaching and research is based upon a critical and socio-legal approach, viewing the law within the broader social, political and economic context in which it operates.

Our taught LLM programmes cover a variety of international legal areas, and enable students to specialise and develop a particular expertise or to create a bespoke programme to fit their many interests. Many of our programmes are open to non-law graduates and attract professionals looking to develop their legal knowledge, law graduates, and non-law graduates alike. All postgraduate students study within a close knit, supportive and intellectually stimulating environment, working closely with our academic staff and discussing cutting-edge legal developments and theory.

Our law library is a leader in the development of electronic resources for legal teaching and research. The extensive and up-to-date law collection in the University’s Templeman Library is particularly strong on electronic material, with the Electronic Law Library containing all of the main relevant databases. In addition, you can access the text of thousands of law journals online. Our law librarian is available to train students to use these resources and runs regular legal research classes with postgraduate students.

Kent Law School is a cosmopolitan place to study, with students from over 80 countries studying within the department. Postgraduate courses are offered at our beautiful 300-acre parkland Canterbury campus, which overlooks the historic cathedral city of Canterbury and is a short distance from both London and continental Europe, and at our Brussels campus in the political heart of Europe. International postgraduates are given full support with additional English-language tuition if required.

Watch video profiles of Kent LLM students talk about their LLM studies.

Courses
Taught LLM programmes are available in the following areas: 

• criminal justice
• environmental law and policy
• European law
• international commercial law
• international criminal justice
• international environmental law
• international economic law (available at Brussels only)
• international law with international relations (available at both Canterbury and Brussels)
• medical law and ethics
• public international law (available at both Canterbury and Brussels)
• law
• combined (joint) LLM
• Law (Erasmus-Europe)

These degrees are taught by a combination of coursework assessment and dissertation, with most programmes available on both a full-time and part-time basis. Full-time students complete the LLM over one academic year, and part-time students complete it over two years.

All courses have a September start date, with a January start date also offered at Brussels. Applications for all of these courses can be made on our website.

Research postgraduate degrees (LLM, MPhil, PhD) are available in law, law and philosophy and socio-legal studies.

Information about scholarships for all of our postgraduate courses can be found on our website.

Teaching, research and support
Kent Law School is a Centre of world class research standard, ranked 6th in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Our academic staff are drawn from around the world, with all involved in research projects and many contributing to national and international reports for a variety of governmental and non-governmental organisations.

With a dedicated postgraduate office, facilities solely for postgraduate use and extensive training in legal research, students receive support to ensure they can achieve the highest possible level. The Law School also has an active and inclusive extracurricular academic and social scene, with weekly graduate seminars and a postgraduate student group for all students.

"Would I recommend Kent Law School to others? Yes, a thousand times."
Madhumanti Mukherjee, LLM in International Law and International Relations, now doing a PhD 

Contact
Postgraduate Office
Kent Law School, University
of Kent
Eliot College
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7NS 

T +44 (0)1227 824595
F +44 (0)1227 827442
E klspgoffice@kent.ac.uk
W www.kent.ac.uk/law