Program Overview

LLM Law and Human Resource Management

Overview

This course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the areas of law and human resource management to enable you to enhance your employability within the legal and business sectors.

Award

• LLM

Start Date

• 15 September 2025

UCAS Code

• Not specified

Course Specifications

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Course Length

• Part-time (2 years), Full-time (12 months)

Campus Location

• University: City Campus

School

• University of Wolverhampton Law School

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Course Modules

Year 1

• Contemporary Issues in Human Resources- an International Perspective
  • Module: 7HR034
  • Credits: 30
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• International Corporate Governance
  • Module: 7LW010
  • Credits: 20
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• International Corporate Insolvency
  • Module: 7LW028
  • Credits: 20
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• Law of Employment and Practice
  • Module: 7LW080
  • Credits: 20
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• Law Research Project
  • Module: 7LW083
  • Credits: 60
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
• Strategic People Management
  • Module: 7HR029
  • Credits: 30
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core

Potential Career Paths

• Human Resources
• Business Sector
• Commercial Sector
• Legal Sector

Additional Information

What Skills Will You Gain?

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems in the area of Law and Human Resource Management, as well as a conceptual understanding that enables you:
   • to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the subject disciplines; and
   • to evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of contemporary issues in law and/or human resource management.
3. Critically evaluate the impact of Law and Human Resource Management principles and issues for national and international business.
4. Exercise advanced analytical, critical, numerical and communication skills and to be able to share knowledge.
5. Demonstrate originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline.
6. Demonstrate an enhanced ability to research, critically review appropriate or relevant source materials and present knowledge and understanding through a postgraduate dissertation.

Course Fees and Finance

Entry Requirements

• A 2:2 or above honours degree in law, human resource management, business or other relevant academic degree or joint law programmes, such as Human Resource Management and Law or Business and Law or other joint law subjects.
• Non-standard applicants, without the above qualifications but have significant experience in the appropriate subject areas, may be accepted on the course if it is considered they will be able to cope with the rigours of the programme.
• Students may be required to attend an interview.

Funding

• Postgraduate Loan (Home Fee Status): You may be able to get a postgraduate student loan from Student Finance England of up to £12,858 to help pay for a Master’s degree.
• Changes for EU students: The UK government has confirmed that EU students starting courses from 1 August 2021 will normally be classified as Overseas (International) students for fee purposes.
• Postgraduate Loyalty Discount: You can get 20% discount on a taught on-site postgraduate course if you’re a University of Wolverhampton Graduate.
• Self-funded: If you are paying for the fees yourself then the fees can be paid in 3 instalments: November, January and April.
• Sponsored - Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees: Your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.
• Financial Hardship: Students can apply to the Dennis Turner Opportunity Fund for help with course related costs however this cannot be used for fees or to cover general living costs.
• Charitable Funding: You might also want to explore the possibility of funding from charitable trusts. Please contact Association of Charitable Foundations, Directory of Social Change or Family Aid. Most charities and trust funds offer limited bursaries targeted to specific groups of students so you will need to research whether any of them are relevant to your situation.