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Our courses combine law, policy, leadership and science-related modules, and are directed at helping our students reach their full potential. We offer the only LLM in international and comparative water law and policy anywhere. Our main programmes are as follows:

Masters (LLM) Water Law (also available: Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Water Law) - options include resources law, economics, policy, and management.

We also have a vibrant PhD Programme.

Water Law

The LLM Water Law is our premier taught postgraduate degree programme. You can register for this now or you can register for an interim award, the PGCert Water Law, and then decide later on whether to take this interim award or whether to carry forward your academic credit by registering instead for the full Masters in Law.

Central to both the above graduate awards are the following Water Law Water Leaders core modules:

Induction module
International Law of Water Resources.
National Water Law and Regulation.
Regulation of Water Services.

To complete the PGCert Water Law, simply successfully complete any three of the four core modules listed above; it is recommended, but not required, that this includes the induction module. It is possible to complete this award in the period of just one summer.

For the LLM Water Law you will need to successfully complete:

All four of the core modules listed above.
Two additional modules selected from a specified range of options
A dissertation, internship or project.

As an alternative, if you wish to register for a course that takes in six different modules, but no dissertation, internship or project, then this is the Postgraduate Diploma (PD Dip) in Water Law (more information available from programme leader, Dr Sarah Hendry). Again, it is possible to register for the PG Dip and then, ahead of taking the award, switch up to the full LLM.

Choice of Delivery

a allan smiling Many students will want to complete their graduate degrees taking advantage of our convenient Water Law Water Leaders summer programme.

Those who do so are encouraged to attend an orientation week immediately prior to the formal start of the three core, face-to-face delivery, modules.

Part time LLM students can start their (DL) induction module at any time, come to Dundee in the summer to complete the Water Law Water Leaders (WLWL) remaining three core modules, complete two options and also their project, internship or dissertation. This is also the route that is compatible with completing a PG Cert or PG Dip.

For part-time learners, we are flexible about how long you take to complete your qualification with us. You could decide to come to the Water Law Water Leaders summer programme summer programme (June – August) for repeating years, taking different modules each year. Hence we would allow anything from two to five years for completion via part-time learning of the LLM; with the expectation that many students will take approximately three years to complete. Alternatively, simply sign-up for the PG Cert or PG Dip on a part-time and self-paced basis and, further into your study, decide whether the longer-term commitment of LLM study is for you or not.

If you want to take the LLM on a Full Time basis then you would begin your studies with us in January. From then until May, you would take an on-campus induction module and two modular options. During the summer period, and as part of Water Law Water Leaders, you would then take the three core water law modules listed above. Further to that, you would then complete your accredited project, internship or dissertation.