Overview

Our two-year LLM Natural Resources and Environmental Law and Policy with Solicitors Practice is the first of its kind and gives you a clear and supported career pathway to qualification as a solicitor in England & Wales.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the professional body governing training and qualification for solicitors, introduced the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) as the new route to qualification as a solicitor in England & Wales. The LLM programme addresses this and provides a distinct route to prepare you for the SQE.

The LLM Natural Resources and Environmental Law and Policy with Solicitors Practice contains specialist preparatory modules (SQE1 Legal Theory & Solicitors Practice, and SQE2 Legal Theory & Solicitors Practice) that provide you with specific one-to-one support and guidance to perform effectively in both the SRA’s SQE1 and SQE2 assessments.

The LLM Natural Resources and Environmental Law and Policy with Solicitors Practice also gives you a rigorous legal education with an in-depth grounding in practical legal and transferable skills. The course develops your legal, academic and clinical skills at every stage of your journey.

The programme is taught by academic experts and practitioner lawyers, who put real-world clinical legal experience at the heart of the programme. They'll give you the tools you need to graduate as a capable and reflective practitioner, equipped for qualification as a solicitor in England & Wales.

As an LLM student, you'll benefit from working throughout your degree alongside staff in our Law Clinic who possess national and international legal experience and who have worked both regionally as well as in the City. This will enhance your employability and contribute to the two-year Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) required by the SRA for you to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales.

On graduation with an LLM Natural Resources and Environmental Law and Policy with Solicitors Practice, you will have:

• gained in-depth knowledge in areas including International Energy Law & Just Transition, international Environmental Law, International Water Resources Law, Climate Change Law & Policy, Business Human Rights and Environment, Waste Management Law & the Circular Economy
• studied for, and passed SQE1, needed to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales
• studied for, and be ready to sit, SQE2 on completion of your studies with us
• undertaken invaluable work experience in our Law Clinic that will contribute to the two-year Qualifying Work Experience (QWE) needed to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales 

Entry requirements

A UK 2:2 (or above) degree or equivalent internationally recognised qualification in any discipline from an approved higher education institution. Further guidance can be found in our international section.

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no sub-test less than 5.5.