Queen Mary, University of London

MA by Research

Postgraduate Open Evening - November 26th

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Queen Mary is the only University in London to offer a MA Research in Law.  In participating in the MA by Research degree at Queen Mary, you will be part of a cosmopolitan community, which includes students from all over the world, who have come to Queen Mary to undertake research.

Who is the course aimed at?

The MA Research offers students a structured one year research programme within which they can explore individually supervised research on topics of their own choice, whilst following taught classes in Research Methods covering theory and methodology.

The Programme is ideal for students wishing to proceed to doctoral study, or for students wishing to enhance their career prospects by developing expertise in a specific area of law. Theoretical and inter-disciplinary, as well as more practical and traditional approaches, are all accommodated in this programme.

For applicants interested in non-commercial law, the School of Law has well-known strengths in areas such as legal theory, legal history, international law, human rights, migration law, property law, European law, Company law, comparative law, family law, medical law, criminal law and criminology, comparative law, constitutional law, and any number of areas of traditional public and private law.

From September 2007, students interested in pursuing the MA Research in commercial areas of law, for which Queen Mary’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) is internationally renowned, can apply. Areas include: Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Communications, Development, EU, Intellectual Property, IT, Media and Tax.
MA Research students are regarded as full members of the School’s research community, and are encouraged to attend the staff seminars which are scheduled throughout the year

Structure of Programme

The Programme is available on both a one year full time and two-year part time basis.
All students enrolled in this programme will undertake supervised research with a view to submitting a 20,000 word dissertation by the end of the year.

Students will also attend a Research Methods course which will expose them to a broad range of theoretical and practical approaches to legal research. This course will be taught through one 2 hour seminar each week.
In the first term the course covers theoretical topics Ethics and Law, Law and Economics, Systems theory, Liberal theory, and Critical Theory.

In the second term, the course has a methods focus and covers areas such as research interviews, literature review and historical research methods. These second-term seminars will, so far as is possible, be tailored to the dissertations of enrolled students.

Assessment

The course is assessed by two 2500 word essays. The course entitled ‘Theory and Method in Legal Scholarship’ accounts for 25 per cent of the final grade and the final dissertation accounts for 75 per cent of the final grade.

Academic Staff

The MA Research Programme Leader & Contributor on the Research Methods and Theory Course, first term
Professor Richard Nobles, LLB (Hons) (Warwick) LLM (Yale)
Professor of Law, Solicitor

Leader and Contributor on the, Research Methods and Theory Course, second term
Professor Kate Malleson, BA (Hons) (Lond) MPhil (Cantab) PhD (Lond)
Professor of Law

Contributor on the Research Methods and Theory Course, first term
Professor Eric Heinze, Maitrise (Paris) JD (Harvard) PhD (Leiden)
Member of the Bars of the State of New York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Reader in Law

Contributor on the Research Methods and Theory Course
Professor David Schiff, LLB (Hons)
Professor of Law

In participating in the MA by Research degree programme at Queen Mary you will be part of a cosmopolitan community, which includes students from all over the world who have come to Queen Mary to research. For example we have students from UK, Singapore, Nigeria and Lithuania.

  • Details of all ‘Areas of Expertise’ covered by the School of Law
  • Profiles of students currently undertaking an MA by Research in Law

Further information
For fuller details on application procedures and entry requirements, please see how to apply [new window]

For detailed research enquiries, please contact:
Professor Richard Nobles
email: r.nobles@qmul.ac.uk

For general information, please contact:
Janette Monk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5139
Fax: +44 (0)20 8981 8733
email: j.a.monk@qmul.ac.uk

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