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International Dispute Resolution LLM pathway
at King's College London

London, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 19,772
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 7 TOEFL: 100

Program Overview

The International Dispute Resolution LLM, prepares you for a career in the challenging and exciting ﬁeld of international dispute resolution. It provides you with a solid foundation in all relevant areas including both private and public international means of dispute resolution and allows you to specialise in the ﬁelds of your choice. This specialist pathway is taught by King’s award-winning academics, and some of the world’s leading practitioners.

Key benefits

King’s LLM in international dispute resolution (IDR) will introduce you to the whole breadth of IDR. The program includes three mandatory modules, on private, public international and EU law mechanisms as well as on current developments in IDR.
Students without any background in international or EU law can acquire the relevant basic knowledge in this field in the first weeks of the pathway, through two not-for-credit optional ‘foundational seminars’.
Students have a wide range of options of specialised fields of international dispute resolution, ranging from modules on international commercial arbitration and international investment arbitration, exclusively taught by some of the world’s leading barristers, human rights law and litigation, international investment law as well as policy, negotiation, transnational litigation and world trade law.

Course Content
Once enrolled on the General LLM at King’s, students can choose modules to follow the International Dispute Resolution pathway and achieve a specialist LLM in International Dispute Resolution. Full-time students who complete the programme in one year will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.  To graduate with an International Dispute Resolution LLM at least 120 credits must be taken within the pathway. This can be optional modules alone or a combination of optional modules and a writing project, providing its content is relevant to the pathway.    The range of International Dispute Resolution LLM optional modules may typically include:  
- Introduction to International Dispute Resolution (15 credits)
- Negotiation (15 credits)
- International Investment Arbitration (15 credits)
- International Commercial Arbitration (15 credits)
- Global Law of Climate Change (15 Credits)
- Transnational Human Rights Litigation (15 Credits)
- Transnational & International Criminal Law (15 credits)
In addition, all students are required to take one of the following writing projects, detailed further on the General LLM prospectus page: 
- Dissertation (45 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
- 10,000 word practice or research module (45 credits)
Entry Requirement
Indian universities considered highly prestigious : Bachelor degree (Honours/Special) with a score of: 60% or 7.5 out of 10.
Indian universities considered prestigious : Bachelor degree (Honours/Special) with a score of: 63% or 7.7 out of 10.
Other recognised Indian universities : Bachelor degree (Honours/Special) with a score of; 65% or 8 out of 10. The differing grading systems at Indian universities will be taken into consideration. If your degree is graded out of 4, 7 or 8, your scores would be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Fees & Scholarships

International Tuition Fees:

£19772 per year

Cost Of Studying At King's College London

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

Loans Sanctioned

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International Dispute Resolution LLM pathway at King's College London