4 courses offered in the Faculty of Law
Corporate Law - MCL
The MCL is an academically rigorous master's programme taught by the Cambridge Law Faculty's team of corporate lawyers, widely recognised as one of the strongest in the corporate law field. The MCL offers students the opportunity to engage in a detailed study of the legal and regulatory framework within which companies are governed and financed. In so doing it combines practical insights with an academic approach. The MCL, therefore, constitutes an ideal graduate programme both for those intending to enter or progress within corporate practice and for those who are planning a career in academia.
Law - LLM
The LLM is a nine-month taught master’s degree with a potential dissertation element of 25 per cent. It offers highly qualified and academically outstanding students the opportunity to pursue their legal studies at an advanced level in an intellectually challenging and supportive environment. The Cambridge programme has rich historical traditions and attracts common law and civil law students of the highest calibre from approximately 50 jurisdictions. It is intended for those wishing to pursue further legal studies after completing their first degree in law. Applicants include both recent graduates considering an academic career or intending to practise law and those already in practice seeking to broaden their intellectual horizons.
Law - MLitt
The MLitt degree may be awarded after two years of supervised independent research (or a proportionally longer period if undertaken on a part-time basis) and following examination of a thesis not exceeding 60,000 words inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of appendices, bibliography, table of contents and any other preliminary matter. Candidates for the MLitt are registered in the first instance for the Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Legal Studies which provides training in legal research and must attend, during term-time only, the weekly classes provided by the Faculty's Research Training and Development Programme that offer instruction on research techniques and advice on matters such as getting work published and obtaining academic jobs.
Law - PhD
The PhD in Law is an advanced research degree which may be awarded after three to four years of full-time study or five to seven years of part-time study (depending on whether the mode of part-time study is 0.60FTE or 0.75FTE respectively) of supervised independent research on the basis of a thesis not exceeding 100,000 words exclusive of bibliography, table of contents, and any other preliminary matter. Full-time students are required to be in residence in Cambridge throughout their studies. Part-time students have no residency requirements but are required to attend the University on a regular basis for supervisions and training as prescribed by the Faculty's Degree Committee. Generally, we expect part-time research students to be physically in Cambridge for around 45 days per year, spread throughout the year. Students are appointed a principal Supervisor as well as an academic adviser to act as a source of advice on matters relating to a student's research and research environment. If the project is interdisciplinary, a second Supervisor may be appointed. Students are initially registered as probationary research students for the Certificate of Postgraduate Study in Legal Studies and must participate in the Faculty's Research Training and Development Programme which aims to provide an introduction to advanced research techniques and methods in law and cognate disciplines.