Energy Law with Professional Skills

Energy Law with Professional Skills, _LLM

Introduction

Study this specialised programme in Aberdeen – Europe’s largest energy hub and a Top 100 Law School (Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2022). Designed with inbuilt professional qualifications, you’ll develop a set of highly in-demand skills and the expertise to gain a true competitive advantage in the industry.

Study Information

Study Options

Learning Mode: On Campus Learning
Degree Qualification: LLM
Duration: 12 months or 24 months
Study Mode: Full Time or Part Time
Start Month: January or September

The LLM Energy Law with Professional Skills offers a practical, highly regarded qualification that includes hands-on learning and job-focused training in lieu of a dissertation. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills required to play a key role in the coming decades as the world seeks to meet growing energy demand and the consequent need for unprecedented levels of investment. You’ll also benefit from structured course content designed to support the development of broader personal and professional competencies. Opportunities to develop concrete, industry-sought skills are incorporated into the degree course and acquired alongside and during the study of Energy Law. For example, intensive case-study based exercises in the fields of project finance and project management add relevance and prominence to your CV, whilst the ability to demonstrate a range of professional skills will further enhance your employability prospects. Our graduates are well-placed to operate in a complex, globalised working environment and are able to progress quickly to leadership roles. The programme's hallmarks include strategically using professionals as adjunct faculty, as well as on-the-ground industry contacts.

Qualification: LLM
Duration: 12 months or 24 months
Learning Mode: On Campus
Study Mode: Full Time or Part Time
Start Month: January

Semester 1

For January start students, the first semester covers courses with the prefix LS55 and there is the compulsory course LS551T Critical Legal Thinking and Scholarship. All students must take two LS50xx courses and two LS55xx courses.

Information for part-time students: This route will run over three academic years. Candidates can take up to 60 credit points in Year 1, 120 credit points in Year 2, and 60 credit points in Year 3. LS551T and PD5506 must be taken in Year 1, and LS5907 must be taken in Year 2. Candidates must take a remaining 120 credit points. At least 90 credit points must be obtained from the courses listed in the optional sections of semesters 1 and 3. The remaining credit points may be obtained from any Level 5 30 credit Law on-campus course.

Compulsory Courses

PD5506: Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen

Critical Legal Thinking and Scholarship (LS551T): This compulsory course provides students from diverse legal and educational backgrounds with a common understanding of the core research, analytical, and writing skills which would be required to excel in LLM-Taught courses. It commences with a few lectures and progresses to working in a workshop environment and finally to the submission of an individual assignment. It also incorporates elements such as library workshops to provide students with hands-on experience with the resources available for course and dissertation work.

Detailed course information

Optional Courses

Four optional courses must be selected. Two should be selected from semester 1 and two from semester 3. Alternatively, one of your four choices could be selected from another LLM programme (excluding LS501E, and LS551K).

Principles of Environmental and Natural Resources Regulation (LS553U)

30 Credit Points

The purpose of this course is to introduce the main principles of environmental law and natural resources regulation. The course analyses the challenges of environmental protection and from the perspective of international, European and national law; and outlines the main legal principles of natural resources development. Besides the conceptual analysis of the main principles of environmental law and methods of regulation, the course focuses on the delicate interaction between the principles of economic law (e.g. the right to property, the protection of investments, free trade) and environmental protection. Is there a conflict between economic law and environmental law or are these fields of law mutually reinforcing?

Fee category	Cost
EU / International students	£25,100
Tuition Fees for 2022/23 Academic Year	£25,100
Home / RUK	£12,800
Tuition Fees for 2022/23 Academic Year	£12,800