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Our LLM program is a prestigious academic credential acknowledged globally across major legal fields. It highlights our specialized areas of excellence while providing options between nine focused tracks or a comprehensive LLM degree. We prioritize creative, solution-oriented teaching approaches alongside comparative and international perspectives.
Competition Law LLM Specialization
Highly regarded across Europe and internationally, King's Competition Law LLM will both challenge and motivate you. Throughout the program, top policymakers, legal professionals, and scholars examine crucial issues regarding competition law theory and economic applications. Competition legislation has expanded rapidly worldwide, with over one hundred jurisdictions now implementing such laws. We maintain enduring connections with practitioners across these regions and take pride in our extensive professional network. Our faculty of competition law experts, economists, and officials maintain active involvement with cases in the UK, EU, and globally.
Key Advantages
An exceptional instructional team comprising dedicated King's scholars and internationally renowned practitioners who contribute to our diverse course offerings within this specialized track.
Opportunities to engage with distinguished speakers through our extracurricular Competition Law activities, including: The Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot, EU Competition Law events in Brussels, and various lecture series.
A vibrant Competition Law network encompassing LLB, LLM, MA distance learning, and PhD students from around the world, fostering intellectual exchange and diverse viewpoints.
Standard requirements
A minimum high 2:1 undergraduate Bachelor’s (honours) degree in a social science-related area with a final mark of at least 65% or above in the UK marking scheme. If you are still studying, you should be achieving an average of at least 65% or above in the UK marking scheme.
If you have a lower degree classification, or a degree in an unrelated subject, your application may be considered if you can demonstrate significant relevant work experience, or offer a related graduate qualification (such as a master's or PGDip).
Programme-Specific Requirements
Undergraduate degree with high 2:1 honours (assessed as an overall average of at least 65% across all years of study) in Law or a degree with at least 70% law content.
Exceptionally, you may be considered where a comparable academic level has been achieved through other graduate studies (such as a Graduate Diploma in Law) or you have at least three years legal work experience and a 2:1 (rather than a high 2:1) in your Law degree.
In order to meet the academic entry requirements for this programme you should have a minimum high 2:1 undergraduate degree with a final mark of at least 65% or above in the UK marking scheme. If you are still studying you should be achieving an average of at least 65% or above in the UK marking scheme.
Bachelor (Honours) degree / Master of Arts (Honours) degree with Upper Second Class Honours and 65% overall from the final two years.
IELTS (Academic): 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in each skill
TOEFL iBT: 100 overall with a minimum of 25 in writing and 23 in each of the other skills.