The Master of Laws at Strathmore Law School is an 18-month programme designed for experienced lawyers and legal practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge without interrupting their careers. Students can choose a general LL.M or specialize in areas like intellectual property, international criminal law, and international financial law. Classes are taught predominantly by international faculty through lectures, case studies, and group work to provide theoretical and practical skills.
The Master of Laws at Strathmore Law School is an 18-month programme designed for experienced lawyers and legal practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge without interrupting their careers. Students can choose a general LL.M or specialize in areas like intellectual property, international criminal law, and international financial law. Classes are taught predominantly by international faculty through lectures, case studies, and group work to provide theoretical and practical skills.
The Master of Laws at Strathmore Law School is an 18-month programme designed for experienced lawyers and legal practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge without interrupting their careers. Students can choose a general LL.M or specialize in areas like intellectual property, international criminal law, and international financial law. Classes are taught predominantly by international faculty through lectures, case studies, and group work to provide theoretical and practical skills.
The Master of Laws at Strathmore Law School is an 18-month programme designed for experienced lawyers and legal practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge without interrupting their careers. Students can choose a general LL.M or specialize in areas like intellectual property, international criminal law, and international financial law. Classes are taught predominantly by international faculty through lectures, case studies, and group work to provide theoretical and practical skills.
Law School Our LL.M offers the students increased understanding of local, regional and international legal principles.
Course Description Programme Objectives
The Master of Laws at Strathmore Law School is The learning outcomes of the Master of Laws an 18-month programme designed for programme are to: experienced lawyers and legal practitioners who wish to expand their knowledge and expertise 1. Critically assess and provide modern, without interrupting their careers. The SLS LL.M innovative and adequate legal training to offers the students first-rate increased confront complex situations in their line of understanding of local, regional and international work at individual, institutional, national and legal principles. Students may enroll for a general regional level. LL.M or may choose to major in one of the five thematic areas of law offered, namely, Intellectual 2. Acquire advanced specialist knowledge in Property Law, International Criminal Law, emerging areas of the law with an in-depth International Financial Law and Regulation and knowledge guided by the specific choices the International Energy Law and Policy. candidates may make during their progression within the LLM programme. Through lectures taught predominantly by international faculty members, case studies 3. Conduct independent academic research in depicting actual problem cases in industry, the legal field and to make a contribution to research and through group work amongst the development of the law that is relevant to academic peers, the programme will aim to society. provide students with the theoretical and practical building blocks and conceptual tools necessary 4. Independently engage in academic discourse for the more advanced tasks they will be called with peers from a diversity of legal upon to tackle throughout the course. backgrounds. Admission Requirements Participants Mix
• Holders of First Class or Upper Second Class Applicants include experienced lawyers, in-house honors degree in Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from counsel, judges, government officials, legal recognized universities. practitioners, policy makers and law school • Holders of other related qualifications from graduates, with a minimum of two years’ working recognized universities, considered by the experience. Admission is highly competitive and Academic Council as equivalent to a First Class based on an all-inclusive assessment of the or Upper Second Class honors degree in submitted application including prior academic Bachelor of Laws (LL. B); or performance, recommendations, and work • Holders of Lower Second Class degree in experience. Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) plus postgraduate diplomas or certificates, or with at least three years relevant academic or professional Mode of Delivery experience. • Holders of a qualification equivalent to a The LL.M will be offered on Modular basis, which Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree or any similar involves participants attending classes for two degree in the legal field, issued by a recognized weeks full-time after every quarter, over an university. These may be admitted to the eighteen-month period. Master’s degree only under exceptional circumstances. The conditions under which In line with the needs of the students as experienced they may be admitted will be determined by lawyers and legal practitioners, the primary focus of the School Board, Board of Graduate Studies delivery is participant-centered learning. This type of and approved by the Academic Council. learning is particularly suitable to this audience in that it has its core ingredient in the combined Note: Applicants with academic qualifications from experience of student participants. foreign jurisdictions (outside Kenya) will be required to provide a letter of recognition & equation of qualifications from the Commission for University Education (CUE). Law School
