LLM Modules

School of Law LLM Modules 2026/27

Below is a list of modules offered by School of Law LLM programmes running in the 2026/27 academic year. Please be aware that this list may be subject to change.

Additional modules available from the following are detailed in your programme’s academic booklet and within your programme timetable:

• Irish Centre for Human Rights
• Centre for Disability Law & Policy
• JE Cairnes School of Business & Economics

Semester 1

• LW439 Advocacy, Activism and Public Interest Law (10 ECTS) 
• LW5231 Introduction to Common Law (10 ECTS) NEW for 2026/27
• LW483 Advanced Legal Research & Method (10 ECTS)                  
• LW5213 Law of International Business Transactions (10 ECTS)
• LW5227 International Tax Law (10 ECTS) NEW for 2026/27
• LW565 Comparative Corporate Governance (10 ECTS)                  
• LW5221 Design Thinking for Lawyers I (5 ECTS)          
• LW5220 The Future of Law (5 ECTS)                                   
• LW5215 Criminology, Criminal Justice & Human Rights* (10 ECTS)  
• LW5219 Minority Groups & the Criminal Justice System  (10 ECTS)
• LW5233 Criminal Justice & Human Rights Clinic* (10 ECTS)

* Only available to students registered to 1ML32/1ML33/2ML33

Semester 2

• LW5225 International Environmental Law (10 ECTS)
• LW5208 European Consumer Law and Policy (10 ECTS)
• LW5210 Commercial Law in Context (10 ECTS)
• LW5218 Law and Economics of Corporate Transactions (10 ECTS)
• LW5213 Law of International Business Transactions (10 ECTS)
• LW5228 Private International Law (10 ECTS) NEW for 2026/27
• LW5222 Design Thinking for Lawyers II (5 ECTS)
• LW5223 Computation and Law (10 ECTS)
• LW5224 Digital Transformation and Access to Justice (5 ECTS)
• LW5214 Imprisonment and Rights (10 ECTS)
• LW5216 Policing, Security and Rights (10 ECTS)
• LW5226 Crimmigration (10 ECTS) NEW for 2026/27

Summer Term

• LW450 Dissertation (10 ECTS) Core for all programmes