**Why study this course?**<br/><br/>This Maritime LLM Top-up route allows students who have passed the London Metropolitan University and Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law distance learning course to obtain a Masters qualification.<br/><br/>**More about this course**<br/><br/>The LLM degree enables you to develop an advanced understanding of a specialist area of maritime law. It is suitable for those in both the legal and maritime industry who are looking to enhance their career prospects.<br/><br/>This unique distance learning programme for the shipping sector will:<br/><br/><br/>- allow you to develop an advanced understanding of an aspect of maritime law through independent research<br/><br/><br/>- improve both your research and independent study skills<br/><br/><br/>- enhance your ability to develop substantiated critical argument<br/><br/><br/>There will be formative assessment on the research proposal and literature review which will precede the substantive research for the dissertation.<br/><br/>The summative assessment will be entirely by way of the dissertation.