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Course Overview

What you'll study?

LLM Health Law and Ethics will involve you in the study of key issues relating to legal principles applied in the context of health and medicine. You will be supported in gaining a high-level understanding of the organizational, regulatory, and legal structures underpinning medical and health practice. Based on these fundamentals you will have the opportunity to develop critical insights into a range of specialist areas in the field. In particular, as the law relates to medical innovation, consent, mental health, beginning and ending of life issues and the use of human tissue.

The course incorporates a strong emphasis on ethics-based critiques of legal approaches to health and medicine. Similarly, you will be supported in developing a sophisticated international perspective on the issues in particular through the lens of human rights approaches.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

  • A good law degree, 2.2 or above.
  • Applicants whose first degree is not Law will be required to provide evidence of commitment to the LLM subject that they wish to study.
  • Applicants from other disciplines will be welcomed in appropriate circumstances, particularly if they have experience in the area, even if not as lawyers.

Fees

UK Student Fee

One year (full-time): £7500

Two years (part-time): £3750(cost per year of study*)

International Student Fee

One year (full-time): £15500

Two years (part-time): £7750 (cost per year of study*)


This information was accurate on : 06/04/2021
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