Cambridge University Reporter


LL.M. Examination, 2008: Notice

The Faculty Board of Law give notice that they have prescribed the following papers and forms of examination for the LL.M. Examination, 2008 (LL.M. Regulations 1 and 2, Statutes and Ordinances, p. 430):
  Form of Examniation
Paper 1 Corporate tax t
Paper 2 International commercial tax t
Paper 3 International commercial litigation 3
Paper 4 Law of restitution t
Paper 6 Commercial insurance law 3
Paper 8 International banking and financial law 3
Paper 9 Corporate finance law t
Paper 12 Intellectual property es, t
Paper 13 Contemporary issues in the law of European integration t
Paper 14 Competition law 3
Paper 15 International environmental law t
Paper 17 EC trade law es
Paper 19 Foundations of international law t
Paper 20 Law of armed conflict, use of force, and peacekeeping t
Paper 21 Settlement of international disputes t
Paper 23 The law of the World Trade Organization es, t
Paper 24 International criminal law t
Paper 25 International human rights law t
Paper 26 Law and practice of civil liberties es, t
Paper 30 Jurisprudence 3
Paper 32 Commercial equity t
Paper 33 Comparative family law and policy t
Paper 34 Philosophy of criminal law t
Paper 35 History of English civil and criminal law t
Paper 36 International intellectual property law es, t
Paper 37 European legal history 3
Paper 38 Seminar paper 

Explanation of forms of examination

(a) A candidate may take a written paper of three hours' duration in all the subjects listed above, other than Paper 38.

(b) Paper 38: Seminar paper. Paper 38 shall be examined by the submission of a thesis which shall not, without the leave of the Faculty Board, exceed 18,000 words including footnotes and appendices, but excluding bibliography, on a topic approved by the Faculty Board which falls within the scope of one of the following seminar courses prescribed for 2007-08:

Comparative law
European social rights and economic integration
Law and political theory
Public law

(c) 'es' indicates a subject in which a candidate has a free choice between form (a) above and a written paper of two hours' duration together with the submission of an essay of not more than 7,000 words, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography, on a topic approved by the Faculty Board which falls within the field of the subject.

(d) 't' indicates a subject in which a candidate may submit a thesis in lieu of a final examination. The thesis shall not, without the leave of the Faculty Board, exceed 18,000 words including footnotes and appendices, but excluding bibliography. It shall be on a topic approved by the Faculty Board falling within the field of the subject.

(e) '3' indicates a subject in which a three-hour final examination is required, the candidate having no option of substituting forms (c) or (d) above.

(f) In 2007-08 there are no subjects which may be examined only in the form of a written paper of two hours' duration together with the submission of an essay of not more than 7,000 words, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography, on a topic approved by the Faculty Board which falls within the field of the subject.