University of Essex International LLM Scholarships 2027-2028: Essex Law School
2027 International LLM Scholarship at Essex University
What is the LLM Law?
At Essex, we believe your postgraduate study should be as unique as your career ambitions. Our one-year general LLM Law offers unparalleled flexibility, empowering you to take control of your education and curate a bespoke curriculum drawn from across our extensive range of postgraduate law modules.
You will have the freedom to design a course that aligns exactly with your intellectual curiosity and professional goals. Whether you want to explore the intersections of international commercial law and human rights, or combine modules on artificial intelligence, environmental law, and international criminal law, you can build a versatile and interdisciplinary foundation for your career.
Taught within the vibrant, research-intensive Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre by world-leading academics and expert practitioners, you will engage with cutting-edge legal debates. By building a diverse, adaptable skill set, you will graduate as a versatile legal thinker, ready to meet the evolving demands of modern employers across legal practice, NGOs, policymaking, or further academic research.
The details
- Course: Law
- Start date: October 2026
- Study mode: Full-time
- Duration: 1 year
- Location: Colchester Campus
- Based in: Essex Law School
Why this course
- Complete freedom to shape your studies: Design a fully bespoke degree by choosing from our entire catalogue of postgraduate law modules. You can cross traditional boundaries to match your unique intellectual and career ambitions.
- Learn from world-leading experts: Be taught by internationally recognised academics and active practitioners in a research-intensive environment that is renowned for tackling real-world global challenges.
- Future-proof your career: Develop the versatile, interdisciplinary skill set that modern employers demand. You will graduate as an adaptable professional ready for roles in legal practice, NGOs, international business, or government policy.
- Join a vibrant, global community: Experience the famous ‘Essex Spirit’ and study alongside a diverse network of students and staff from all over the world, bringing a truly international perspective to your legal education.
- Practical professional development: Benefit from an agile curriculum designed to adapt to the changing legal landscape, giving you the strong academic foundation needed for modern professional qualification routes.
Who Should Apply?
- The Self-Directed Learner: Applicants seeking to build unique, interdisciplinary legal expertise tailored to specific career goals.
- The Exploratory Scholar: Students who prefer to build a broader academic foundation before committing to a single legal specialisation.
- The Career-Focused Candidate: Students looking to combine rigorous academic modules with practical, professionally oriented study and future qualification tracks.
What you’ll learn
Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field. The following modules are based on the current course structure and may change in response to new curriculum developments and innovation.
We understand that deciding where and what to study is a very important decision for you. We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities as described on our website and in line with your contract with us. However, if we need to make material changes, for example due to significant disruption, we’ll let our applicants and students know as soon as possible.
Careers and outcomes
- Essex Law School graduates have gone on to a wide variety of careers in international and intergovernmental organisations or employment with governments across the world, in commerce and banking, in non-governmental organisations and, as might be expected, in the legal profession and the judiciary.
- During the year, we hold a careers session for our students in which we reflect upon our own careers and how they have been built as well as those from former students.
- We are always available to discuss career options and if you are interested in a particular area of the law, we can connect you to the relevant alumni to offer advice.
- We also work with the University’s Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.
Entry requirements
UK entry requirements
A 2:2 Degree in Law or a joint honours Degree in another subject with Law.
Applicants who do not hold a Law Degree but who have at least six months of relevant professional experience, traineeships, or professional qualifications/certifications issued by professional bodies such as Bar Associations can apply and will be considered. Please provide your CV.
International & EU entry requirements
We accept a wide range of qualifications from applicants studying in the EU and other countries. Get in touch with any questions you may have about the qualifications we accept. Remember to tell us about the qualifications you have already completed or are currently taking.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language, we require IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum component score of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in all other components.
If you do not meet our IELTS requirements then you may be able to complete a pre-sessional English pathway that enables you to start your course without retaking IELTS.
Fees and funding
- Home/UK fee: £11,025
- International fee: £23,875