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Advance your legal career with Ulster University postgraduate Law courses
Looking to take your legal knowledge to the next level? Ulster University offers a wide range of postgraduate law programmes designed to enhance your legal career. Whether you’re looking for a short course, a Postgraduate Certificate (PG Cert), Postgraduate Diploma (PG Dip), or a full Master’s degree, we’ve got options to suit you and your career goals.
Why choose Ulster to study postgraduate Law?
- LLM Access to Justice – A unique programme to Ulster University, you’ll develop practical legal advice and advocacy skills while managing the Ulster Law Clinic. A course for those passionate about enhancing access to justice for all.
- Master of Laws (LLM) with specialisms – ideal for graduates who want to deepen their legal expertise or specialise in areas like commercial law, technology law, or human rights law.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law – thinking of switching to law? This conversion course is designed for non-law graduates and can be completed in one year full-time or two years part-time.
Flexible Study Options
Study full-time or part-time, at our Belfast or Derry~Londonderry locations, or choose online learning for ultimate flexibility. Whatever your schedule or commitments, we have a study mode that works for you.
Postgraduate Law courses
ADR & Employment Tribunal Representation
Explore ADR methods as effective, client-focused alternatives to litigation for resolving disputes.
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Corporate Law
This course provides an understanding of legal concepts, principles and rules relevant to businesses and the skills needed to apply them.
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Focus on topical issues in the field of economic, social and cultural rights and will impart detailed knowledge of ESCRs from different perspectives.
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Employment Compliance and Development
Understand the legal framework guiding HR practices and learn to manage employment law risks and compliance in the workplace.
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Employment Law
Understanding Employment Law: Building Knowledge to Navigate and Resolve Workplace Legal Issues.
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Employment Law and Practice - PgCert
Would you like to get a recognised, accredited qualification in employment law from the comfort of your own home/office, wherever you are based?
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Employment Law and Practice - PgCert
Would you like to get a recognised, accredited qualification in employment law from the comfort of your own home/office, wherever you are based?
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Employment Law and Practice - PgCert
Would you like to get a recognised, accredited qualification in employment law from the comfort of your own home/office, wherever you are based?
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Employment Law and Practice - PgCert
Would you like to get a recognised, accredited qualification in employment law from the comfort of your own home/office, wherever you are based?
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Family Law in Practice
The short course covers key areas of family law, including divorce, financial remedy, private children's order proceedings and child maintenance.
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Foundations of International Human Rights Law
This course gives participants an overview of the primary treaty regimes and institutions which underpin the international human rights regime.
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Foundations of Transitional Justice
This course introduces participants to the aims of transitional justice and the main transitional justice measures that seek to respond to mass abuse.
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Gender and Human Rights - LLM
A postgraduate course dedicated to the study of gender and human rights.
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Gender and Human Rights - LLM
A postgraduate course dedicated to the study of gender and human rights.
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Gender and Human Rights - LLM
A postgraduate course dedicated to the study of gender and human rights.
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Gender and Human Rights - LLM
A postgraduate course dedicated to the study of gender and human rights.
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Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice - LLM
Study human rights law and transitional justice with world-leading experts in a society transitioning from conflict
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Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice - LLM
Study human rights law and transitional justice with world-leading experts in a society transitioning from conflict.
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Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice - LLM
Study human rights law and transitional justice with world-leading experts in a society transitioning from conflict
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Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice - LLM
Study human rights law and transitional justice with world-leading experts in a society transitioning from conflict.
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Innovation in Legal Work
Introducing students to the phenomenon of 'LegalTech', or the deployment of technologyinto legal work and the administration of justice.
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Intellectual Property and Data Protection Law
Acquire an understanding of the laws governing intellectual property and the protection of data.
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International Commercial Law and ADR - LLM
The LLM in International Commercial Law and ADR offers modules that are at the cutting-edge of industry and will lead to a professional accreditation.
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International Commercial Law and ADR - LLM
The LLM in International Commercial Law and ADR offers modules that are at the cutting-edge of industry and will lead to a professional accreditation.
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International Migration Law
The course covers key aspects of migration law, including refugee & asylum law
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Law - LLM
Design your own path in law with a flexible LLM built around your choice of specialist modules
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Law - LLM
Design your own path in law with a flexible LLM built around your choice of specialist modules
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Law - LLM
Design your own path in law with a flexible LLM built around your choice of specialist modules
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Law - LLM
Design your own path in law with a flexible LLM built around your choice of specialist modules
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Law - PgDip
Accelerate your legal career in just one year. Turn ambition into action with a qualifying law degree.
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Law - PgDip
Accelerate your legal career in just one year. Turn ambition into action with a qualifying law degree.
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Law - PgDip
Accelerate your legal career, part-time, in just two years. Turn ambition into action with a qualifying law degree.
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Law - PgDip
Accelerate your legal career, part-time, in just two years. Turn ambition into action with a qualifying law degree.
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Law and Technology
Students will gain an understanding of how the law interacts with emerging technologies and the challenges it faces in regulating them effectively.
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Legal Innovation and Technology Law - LLM/MSc
Unlock Your Future in Law and Technology
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Legal Innovation and Technology Law - LLM/MSc
Unlock Your Future in Law and Technology
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Legal Innovation and Technology Law - LLM/MSc
Unlock Your Future in Law and Technology
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Legal Innovation and Technology Law - LLM/MSc
Unlock Your Future in Law and Technology
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Professional Mediation Summer School
Master the Art of Mediation: Gain Invaluable Insight into Conflict Resolution and Legal Dispute Management through Role-Play and Practical Application
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Public International Law and Contemporary Global Challenges
The short course provides a foundation in the theory, sources & critiques of public international law, as well as its relevance to global challenges.
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