The LLM in Law at DCU offers you the opportunity to expand your legal knowledge and to enhance your legal skillset. A variety of stimulating modules are on offer as part of this programme and you may choose to specialise in one area, e.g. international law or commercial law, or to engage with a broader portfolio of subjects. You will undertake an independent research dissertation as part of this course, under the supervision of dedicated expert staff, and your research ability and practical legal skills will be further developed and extended within a core module on legal and socio-legal research skills. Law staff at DCU place a particular emphasis on the societal impact of the law and throughout this LLM in Law you will be encouraged to consider the law in context, to engage with socio-legal research methodologies and to develop practical legal skills such as advocacy and negotiation, which are essential for modern legal practice or future careers in research or academia.

The LLM in Law at DCU is designed to develop students' skillsets in problem solving, initiative taking, teamwork and advocacy, so as to deliver strong potential employees to the marketplace, and/or strong critical thinkers to the research community. Graduates of the LLM in Law are likely to go on to practice either as solicitors or barristers, to work as legal advisers in industry, to move into the related fields of business, politics, journalism, the civil service, or the non-governmental sector, or to pursue further postgraduate research studies at Masters or PhD level. The LLM in Law will give graduates both a comprehensive knowledge of substantive legal subjects of their own choosing and a broad set of skills which are essential to advanced legal research and to modern-day employment both within and beyond the legal world. The unique suite of modules offered within this LLM in Law provides you with the opportunity to design your own postgraduate programme as the basis for your own future.