Teaching & modules
Modules
Course structure
Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 270 credits for the MSc.
Year 1 – Required Modules
You are required to take:
- Commercial Transactions: Contract Law (15 credits)
- Constitutional and Administrative Law (15 credits)
- Crime (15 credits)
- Equity and Trusts (15 credits)
- Foundation - Introduction to Law
- Land Law (15 credits)
- Law of Obligations: Tort Law (15 credits)
- Law of the European Union (15 credits)
- The Law of Business Organisations (15 credits)
Year 2 – Required Modules
Students are required to take the following modules:
- Practice Project (45 credits)
Year 2 - Optional Modules
In addition, you are required to take 105 credits from a range of optional modules* which may typically include:
- Employment Practice (15 credits)
- Business Practice (15 credits)
- Litigation Practice (15 credits)
- Strategy for Legal Practitioners (15 credits)
- Psychology for Legal Practitioners (15 credits)
- Company Financing (15 credits)
- Family Practice (15 credits)
- Clinical Legal Education (15 credits)
- Commercial Law (15 credits)
- Mergers & Acquisitions Practice (15 credits)
- Real Estate Practice (15 credits)
- UK Competition Law (15 credits)
- Commercialisation of IP Law (15 credits)
- Human Rights in Practice and Clinical Legal Education (30 credits)
In addition, an optional Legal Technology module (0 credits) will be open to students.
* The running of optional modules is subject to numbers.
Teaching methods - what to expect
Teaching on the course is delivered through a combination of lectures and workshops.
The standard format for workshops for all modules is 2-hour small group workshop session. Such sessions will be delivered using a blended pedagogical approach, including our bespoke problem-based learning model and other interactive activities, such as group discussions and student presentations.
We will use a delivery method that will ensure students have a rich, exciting experience from the start. Face-to-face teaching will be complemented and supported by innovative technology so that students also experience elements of digital learning and assessment.
There will also be other optional activities available to students; for example, careers masterclasses focusing on future employability, extra-curricular modules, and legal research seminars in disciplines drawing on the expertise of the legal research centres at King’s, providing students with a variety of interactive experiences that will enhance understanding of and give insights into law and legal practice.
In addition, students will spend self-directed time working in ‘law firm’ teams to address simulated client applications and problems.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Exams
- Presentations
- Portfolios
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of assessment methods. Forms of assessment may typically include coursework, in-person examinations, presentations, reflective portfolios, interviews, drafting legal documents and practical legal research.
Application closing date guidance
Applications for our Law and Professional Practice programme will be considered in several recruitment rounds:
- Applications that are complete (including all necessary documentation and references) by 31 January 2026 will be considered in the first round.
- Applications that are complete (including all necessary documentation and references) by 2 April 2026 will be considered in the second round.
- Any applications incomplete as of 2 April or received after this date will be reviewed in the final round if places remain.
The final application deadlines for this programme are:
- Overseas (international) fee status: 25 July 2026 (23:59 UK time)
- Home fee status: 25 August 2026 (23:59 UK time)
After the first two recruitment rounds:
- if the programme is not yet full, we will continue to accept applications until all available places are filled up to the final application deadlines above
- if the programme becomes full before the final application deadlines stated above, we will close the programme to further applications
Please note, you will not be eligible for an application fee refund if you apply after the first application deadline, and we are unable to process further offers because places are filled and we close the course before the final application deadline.
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Duration:
PGDip: 1 year; MSc: 2 years.
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026