School of Law & Government
Postgraduate Programmes in Law
LLM by Research
The Socio-Legal Research Centre, within the School of Law and Government at DCU, invites applications from persons interested in undertaking an LLM by Research. This would involve an independent research project, under the supervision of a staff member of the SLRC, on a topic falling within the socio-legal sphere. The LLM student would be required to submit a thesis on their chosen topic of approximately 40,000 words. The LLM by Research would usually be taken on a full-time basis over a period of 2 years (up to a maximum of 3 years) or on a part-time basis (up to a maximum of 4 years).
If you are considering applying for an LLM by Research you should first consider what subject area you are interested in. You should then make contact with the member of staff you think would be best suited to supervising your Masters thesis.
Following this initial, informal contact, you will need to apply formally. For further details on this visit Registry’s Postgraduate Research Pages.
PhD
The Socio-Legal Research Centre invites applications from persons interested in undertaking a PhD on a topic falling within the socio-legal sphere, with dedicated supervision by staff members of the Centre. A PhD thesis would normally be 85,000 words in length and would be undertaken on a full-time basis over a period of 3-4 years (up to a maximum of 5 years) or on a part-time basis (up to a maximum of 6 years).
If you are considering applying for a PhD you should first consider what subject area you are interested in. You should then make contact with the member of staff you think would be best suited to supervising your PhD thesis.
Following this initial, informal contact, you will need to apply formally. For further details on this visit Registry’s Postgraduate Research Pages.
For more general information on Postgraduate Study at DCU you should also visit DCU’s Graduate Studies website.
Staff members of the Socio-Legal Research Centre also provide international law modules on the taught MA programmes in the School of Law and Government.
