Law and Human Resource Management LLM

This course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the areas of law and human resource management to enable you to enhance your employability within the legal and business sectors.

Why choose this course?
This course is designed to provide you with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the areas of law and human resource management to enable you to enhance your employability within the legal and business sectors. This qualification will be relevant to both national and international environments given the unique design of our programme. The course is intellectually stimulating and upon completion you will have the skills, knowledge and understanding to apply to real work situations in human resource management, business, commercial or legal sectors.

The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach that will help you to develop your own understanding of complex and challenging business environments. The course programme is designed to provide you with legal and management knowledge and skills; including coverage on how organisations respond to changing environments, both nationally and internationally, also skills employed by leaders and managers to manage change. Skills development includes interpretation and analysis of quantitative data and numerical information for analytical and management purposes. In relation to the dissertation, you will be expected to undertake this in an area of legal studies or legal aspects of human resources.

This course gives you added value as on successful completion of it you may choose to apply for membership of internationally recognised professional bodies, namely, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and /or the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD).

The University has ‘recognised course status’ by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) through the module Alternative Dispute Resolution for Commercial Legal Disputes, so that on successful completion of the module and course, you may apply to the CIArb for Associate Membership. In addition, the modules on Human Resource Management align to the professional standards of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) so that on successful completion offers you the opportunity to apply for Associate Membership of the CIPD. Note this course is NOT accredited by the CIPD.

What's unique about this course?
• The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach, of legal studies and human resource management, that will help you to develop your own understanding of complex and challenging business environments.



• The course aims include giving you a critical understanding of contemporary issues in law and human resource management.