Program Overview

LLM Law Programme

The LLM Law programme aims to equip students with advanced and comprehensive knowledge of a wide range of topics in the area of international commercial and business law, as well as international law and human rights. Students will critically analyse how these fields intersect to address contemporary challenges such as global trade disputes, corporate responsibility for human rights, sustainable development, and evolving ethical, cultural, and geopolitical issues.

Benefits of Studying LLM Law

• Opportunities to interact and network with distinguished legal practitioners
• Faculty with extensive experience and expertise in legal research, teaching, and practice
• Opportunities to participate in international mooting and MUN competitions
• Opportunity to engage with high-profile professionals at invited guest talks and field trips
• Opportunities to participate in field visits to international organisations
• Gain exposure to legal practice through the Department's extensive network of partnerships

Programme Modules

Compulsory Modules

• Legal Research Skills (30 Credits)
  • The module aims to ensure that students are equipped with essential skills for participating successfully in their LLM degree programme by offering instruction at an appropriately advanced level in legal research skills coupled with practical tasks in analysing legal sources.
• Dissertation (60 Credits)
  • The module aims to ensure that students are equipped with essential skills to research and write a dissertation.

Optional Modules

Optional modules are constantly updated and reviewed. A module may change or may not be offered a particular academic year, for reasons such as too few students choose that particular module or the module requires academic review. Middlesex University reserves the right to vary or withdraw any course or module at any time.

Programme Content

The LLM Law is designed to deepen and broaden students' knowledge of law as an academic subject by providing students with a systematic understanding of legal processes, methods, and concepts; of the social and political context in which legal processes take place; and of appropriate theoretical conceptions of law.

Course Overview

• Intake: January, September
• Duration: This programme is taught over 1 year full-time and 2 years part-time.
• Attendance: This programme is offered full-time and part-time.
• Course Leader: Dr Daphne Demetriou
• Fees (Full-Time): 74,263 AED (January 2026 intake), 76,491 AED (September 2026 intake)
• Fees (Part-Time): Not specified

Entry Requirements

• The University's standard entry requirements for LLM/PG Dip/PG Cert Law consists of a Law Degree at 2:2 or Graduate Diploma in Law/CPE.
• English Language Requirements:
  • IELTS Academic: 6.0 (with 6 in Reading & Writing, min 5.5 in other components)
  • TOEFL Internet-based: 72 (Reading min 18, Writing min 21, Listening min 17, Speaking min 20)
  • Pearson PTE Academic: 59 (with 59 in all components)
  • Dubai Campus MDX Internal English Test: 6.0 (with 6 in Reading & Writing, min 5.5 in other components)

Teaching

Classes are held at the Dubai Knowledge Park campus on weekdays (Monday to Friday) from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Occasional weekend or holiday sessions may also be scheduled with prior notice.

Work While You Study

Evening classes are designed to fit around a busy lifestyle, making it possible to work during the day while pursuing studies.

Future Career and Employment

This programme is designed for students pursuing careers in legal practice or working with professional service providers who regularly engage with commercial bodies. It prepares them for a wide range of careers in public and private sector organisations, multinational companies, and intergovernmental bodies requiring specialist knowledge in the body of domestic and private international body of rules governing commercial transactions and disputes.

Faculty

• Dr Daphne Demetriou: Associate Professor, Campus Programme Coordinator – Postgraduate Law and Politics
• Professor Tenia Kyriazi: Deputy Director Teaching & Learning, Law and Social Sciences Head of Law and Politics
• Samantha Jayne Roberts: Associate Professor, Campus Programme Coordinator – Undergraduate Law and Politics
• Lubna Khan: Senior Lecturer
• Navya Pudhukkudi Chanolien: Lecturer in Law
• Yasmin Sebah: Senior Lecturer in Law
• Shahila Deena Bhoyroo: Senior Lecturer in Law
• Mahine Rizvi Ahmad: Senior Lecturer in International Relations (School of Law and Politics)