This course is designed to enable lawyers, corporate professionals and others to enter or advance their career in human resource management, in both the public and private sectors. It will also be of value to those seeking more general work in national and local government, law firms, trade unions, advice agencies and private organisations requiring specialist knowledge of employment law.The programme will explain and analyse in-depth a wide range of issues, including UK and EU legislation on recruitment, wages, holidays, parental rights, termination of employment and discrimination. Many have also continue their higher education studies via a PhD. Students have access to the University's Employability Service and are offered guidance by the Programme Leader and other contributors to the programme, including guidance on how to enter and pass recruitment processes for national and international organisations. Students are invited to employability talks organised as part of the Clinical Legal Education programme by the Law and Politics Department as well as talks and events organised by the School of Law. Staff members teaching on the LLM programme include world-renowned scholars who combine instruction in core topics with the fruits of their current and previous research. Students will benefit from their networks of contacts, notably as regards internship opportunities in national and international organisations such as the United Nations or in our on-campus litigation centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, and in the form of placements in a range of specialist employment law firms, private companies and welfare rights organisations.

This course is designed to enable lawyers, corporate professionals and others to enter or advance their career in human resource management, in both the public and private sectors. It will also be of value to those seeking more general work in national and local government, law firms, trade unions, advice agencies and private organisations requiring specialist knowledge of employment law.The programme will explain and analyse in-depth a wide range of issues, including UK and EU legislation on recruitment, wages, holidays, parental rights, termination of employment and discrimination. Many have also continue their higher education studies via a PhD. Students have access to the University's Employability Service and are offered guidance by the Programme Leader and other contributors to the programme, including guidance on how to enter and pass recruitment processes for national and international organisations. Students are invited to employability talks organised as part of the Clinical Legal Education programme by the Law and Politics Department as well as talks and events organised by the School of Law. Staff members teaching on the LLM programme include world-renowned scholars who combine instruction in core topics with the fruits of their current and previous research. Students will benefit from their networks of contacts, notably as regards internship opportunities in national and international organisations such as the United Nations or in our on-campus litigation centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, and in the form of placements in a range of specialist employment law firms, private companies and welfare rights organisations.