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Postgraduate Study

The School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London offers postgraduate research and taught courses to more than 800 students from all over the world. The breadth and depth of our expertise enables us to offer courses and supervision in virtually all major branches of law. The presence of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in the School of Law provides a particular strength in the field of commercial law. Queen Mary has built a reputation for its blend of academic and practical approaches on the postgraduate programmes, with many courses taught by leading practitioners alongside academics to bring practical insights and experience into the classroom.

Postgraduate programmes:

Certificates - International Financial Law, Intellectual Property Law, Trade Mark Law and Practice and Computer and Communications Law
Diplomas - wide range of subjects as well as specialist diplomas in Arbitration / Mediation, Computer and Communications Law and International Financial Law
Distance Learning
LLM
MA by Research
MSc Management of Intellectual Property
PhD
Semester in London for International Students
Visiting students and scholars

Joint programmes

LLM Law and Economics (CCLS and SEF)
MSc Law and Finance (CCLS and SEF)

Scholarships, Studentships and Bursaries

The School of Law offers a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate study. View our bursaries, studentships and scholarships.

Excellent Research and Teaching Reputation

The breadth and depth of expertise at Queen Mary enables us to offer courses and supervision in virtually all major branches of law, whilst maintaining an internationally recognised research reputation as demonstrated by our research institutes and projects and the grants awarded to our academic staff.

Continuing Professional Development

We provide distance learning and flexible courses suitable for legal professionals and many of our public events are accredited with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points. Read about CPD and Professional Accreditation at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.

Postgraduate Student Research Community

Virtually every major area of law is covered by the specialist interests of academic staff in the School of Law, all of whom are willing to supervise postgraduate research within their areas of law expertise. There are more than 160 postgraduate law research students in the School of Law, you can view profiles of many of our current PhD students to see their research topics, supervisors and working titles. During term time we run a series of PhD research seminars.