Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Duration Full Time: 1 Academic Year(s)
Duration Part Time: 2 Academic Year(s)
Total Credits: 90
Delivery Method: Blended
Connected Curriculum: - Civic and Community Engagement
- Employability
- Global Reach
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
Work-Integrated Learning (Including Placement): No
The LLM (Alternative Dispute Resolution) is delivered over one calendar year (12 months), full-time. On a part-time basis, it is delivered over 2 years. The LLM is assessed through prescribed assessments, role-play simulations, and a dissertation.
Exit Award
Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
Upon successful completion of taught modules to the value of 60 credits, registered LLM (Alternative Dispute Resolution) students may opt not to proceed with the programme and exit with a Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Alternative Dispute Resolution).
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Full-time: Students take 90 credits over one calendar year.
Part-time: Students take 90 credits over two calendar years, completing a total of 40 credits in Year 1 and 50 credits (including LW6652 and LW6659) in Year 2.
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| |
| LW6652 | Legal Research Methods and Writing | 5 |
| LW6659 | LLM Dissertation | 25 |
| |
| LW6619 | Alternative Dispute Resolution: Processes and Practice | 5 |
| LW6643 | Negotiation and Mediation | 10 |
| LW6644 | Managing Complex Disputes | 10 |
| LW6665 | Advanced Mediation Theory and Skills | 10 |
| LW6666 | Introduction to Conflict Resolution | 5 |
| LW6667 | Children’s Rights and Family Mediation Processes | 5 |
| 15 |
| Legal Aspects of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare (5) | |
| Comparative Family Property Law (5) | |
| Child Protection Law (10) | |
| The Family and the Law (10) | |
| Business Law in Practice (10) | |
| Law and Policy of the EU Digital Market (10) | |
| Digital Finance and FinTech: Law and Regulation (10) | |
| Total Credits | 90 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Overview
Programme Learning Outcomes for LLM (Alternative Dispute Resolution) (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of the programme, students should be able to:
- Critically analyse the nature and purpose of different dispute resolution methods with particular reference to the civil justice system.
- Demonstrate an understanding of conflict analysis theories.
- Critically discuss and analyse key national and international legal instruments relevant to ADR practice.
- Analyse the relationship between forms of alternative dispute resolution and the courts.
- Critically evaluate the legal and policy context in which mediators and arbitrators operate, from a national and international perspective.
- Identify models of mediation and the principles that underpin them, in particular, facilitative mediation.
- Apply theory and knowledge and demonstrate practical skills in mediation and negotiation through exercises and role play.
- Conduct a facilitative mediation in the role of mediator and demonstrate the necessary skills required, while also being aware of the evaluative model envisaged under the Mediation Act 2017 (s8(4)).
- Synthesise theory and skills and reflect on personal practice and ongoing self-development as a mediator.
- Conduct research on a topic in the area of alternative dispute resolution and write a masters-level dissertation on that topic, using information technology appropriately for high-level legal research and writing.
