Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2017 | Page 80

Postgraduate Prospectus 2017

Law and Society
Key Information
Law is a fascinating, complex and practically significant social
phenomenon.  From the regulation of private conflicts to the structure
of government, virtually no aspect of our social lives is outside its grasp. 
The LLM in Law and Society at Keele allows students to gain a rigorous
understanding of law and legal institutions from an interdisciplinary
perspective. It is a small and selective programme that delivers high
quality postgraduate training to students wishing to pursue a PhD
in law and socio-legal studies or a career in the public and NGO sectors.
The LLM embeds excellent training in innovative methods, the acquisition
of transferable skills, and genuine interdisciplinarity. It combines a set
of foundational core modules in law and society with a flexible choice
of electives. The course is particularly attractive to emergent researchers
who desire to pursue an intensive programme of study in law and society.
The LLM consists of 180 credits, made up of 120 credit taught modules
and a 60 credit dissertation. We offer two pathways for the LLM that
cater for different career paths: Pathway One offers a balance between
core foundational modules and a wide selection of elective modules.
Pathway Two is a research methods intense pathway for students who
intend to pursue a PhD and intend to apply for PhD funding.

Course type

LLM, Postgraduate Diploma

Mode of study

Full-time or part-time

Indicative entry
requirements

Open to all with a first or
second class honours degree
For a list of full entry
requirements please visit
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses

Contact email

[e-mail]

Indicative modules

In Pathway One you will study the following core modules (60 credits):
• Foundations in Law and Society Research: Theories and Concepts
• Socio-legal Studies: Approaches and Applications
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
And either
• Qualitative Research and Data, or
• Quantitative Research and Data
In Pathway Two you will study the following core modules (75 credits):
• Foundations in Law and Society Research: Theories and Concepts
• Socio-legal Studies: Approaches and Applications
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Qualitative Research and Data
• Quantitative Research and Data
The following is a list of indicative elective modules:
• Life, Death and the Human Body
• Health, Justice and Society
• Public Health
• Foundations and Principles of Child Care
• Children, Medicine and Law
• Gender, Sexuality and the Law
• Gender, History and Punishment
• International Law and Human Rights
• Transnational Crime
• Equality, Discrimination and Minorities
• Human Rights and Global Politics

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David Benbow

LLB First Class Keele 2007,
LLM Law and Society with
Distinction 2014, PhD
Candidate at Keele with
an AHRC Studentship
The LLM in Law and Society
is an intellectually stimulating
course which explores a variety
of socio-legal topics (including
Marxist legal theory, feminist legal
theory and legal realism). It is
taught by a diverse set of excellent,
enthusiastic and helpful lecturers. 
It has furnished me with the
requisite skills in order to undertake
a PhD in socio-legal theory’.