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TCD LLM - anyone done it?

  • 05-06-2009 10:58am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone has any info to impart in relation to this course, whether good or bad...?

    Would appreciate some advice on what modules to pick!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭hada


    panda142 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has any info to impart in relation to this course, whether good or bad...?

    Would appreciate some advice on what modules to pick!!

    generally regarded as a money making racket, with the modules (as you have no doubt seen) being absolutely off the wall in some places and offering no coherent correlation to each other.


    however as has been noted a few times in the past on this forum, some people do it to have the TCD after their names - something that frankly bemuses me. An expensive way and rather fruitless way (if prestige is what you're looking for) to spend one year in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    Doing the LLM this coming autumn as well but I've a fair idea of what I'm gonna do already. Don't take this the wrong way but I'd imagine the best route to take is simply choosing which modules interest you and/or which relate to the path you want to pursue following the postgrad?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭panda142


    Doing the LLM this coming autumn as well but I've a fair idea of what I'm gonna do already. Don't take this the wrong way but I'd imagine the best route to take is simply choosing which modules interest you and/or which relate to the path you want to pursue following the postgrad?

    Well that is what I intend to do of course, am just looking for any info on course content, lecturer standard, method of assessment etc. Just if anyone had anything significant to note from doing it.

    Can I ask, have u accepted yet? And, do you pick the modules as you accept?

    Am trying to look up accom at the min aswell.....!


    however as has been noted a few times in the past on this forum, some people do it to have the TCD after their names - something that frankly bemuses me. An expensive way and rather fruitless way (if prestige is what you're looking for) to spend one year in my opinion.

    By the way, whats this about a money making racket - what is it you would reccommend a law graduate to do then????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    Ah right I understand, it would be handly all right to know which modules are the more interesting and which lecturers are the best.

    I haven't accepted it as I have yet to send off results once I receive them and that won't be for another couple of weeks yet. In picking the modules, I assume you do this when registation starts in Sept/Oct, although I wonder what the situation is regarding clashes with the FE-1's?

    Regarding it being a money making racket, I would view most masters as being just that, due to the amount of money they cost!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭hada


    panda142 wrote: »

    By the way, whats this about a money making racket - what is it you would reccommend a law graduate to do then????

    By all means go and do a masters - I myself am doing one next year.

    The problem is, you're intent on doing the masters in TCD yet you have no notion what modules to pick or how to go about picking them - that for me, at first instance, shows that you just want a masters from TCD, rather than looking elsewhere to subjects that might interest you, in other LLM programs.

    That is a prime example how TCD can cash in off their name with (as is regarded by many people) a sub standard LLM. The main reason for this is, the focus of lecturers there (as is held by people doing the course) is more on undergrads than taught postgrads.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,186 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Did it, pretty useless stuff. Completely random subject with minimal input from lectures or tutors.

    That being said with little work I did extremely well in it and it almost certainly helped me get job offers i.e. guaranteed me an interview. An interesting dissertation subject can also be an interesting talking point.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 61 ✭✭panda142


    Its just that I am trying to decide between the TCD LLM and an LLM where I did my undergrad. I've been told it would look better to move and study postgrad somewhere else but I don't want to make the wrong decision.

    The last thing I am after is the "TCD name". I just want to make sure I will not regret my decision a few months in, different universities can be very different.

    The way job prospects are at the minute, this decision is all the more important....!!!:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭theo2008


    Hi, I'm doing the TCD LLM this year as well. Hopefully I'll see you some of you there. I also had my concerns about the subject choices etc as I would prefer to do more specialisation (there are no specialist masters in Ireland that I'm interested in and cannot afford to go outside of Ireland). But the LLM in UCC and UCD also seemed to be pretty much the same in that the subjects seem quite random.

    I have been having my doubts about the LLM recently (starting to worry about money and wondering what I'm actually doing it for) but I don't have much else to do at the minute. I've also paid my 500 deposit which is non-refundable so I'll have to do it! I think the calibre of lecturers there is brilliant, I love Environmental law and Yvonne Scannell is the Queen of it so I'm happy. I plan to get the absolute most out of my dissertation. As with any masters, it's up to yourself to get the most out of it and do plenty of independent research.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭theo2008


    Hi, I'd love to hear from others about what modules they're doing and any other information about the LLM. I'm pretty sure I'm going to pick:

    International Tax Law
    European Tax Law
    International Economic Law
    Corporate Governance
    Travellers, Human Rights and Law
    EC Environmental Law

    Can't wait to get started in September. So bored.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 GoldenBear


    Hey ,
    I also start the LLM in TCD in September
    I hope to do Medicine and the Law
    International Family Law and
    Employment Litigation`.
    Product Liability in Europe,
    EU Travel and Tourism Law and
    Key Issues in Private International Law.
    Ya im also bored at the moment until we get started, hope its an enjoyable year.The dissertation is quite daunting, the most we did in our undergrad was a 2500 word essay!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭randypriest


    Are UCD LLM's more prestigious than TCD?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 GoldenBear


    I just went by the subject choices when deciding where to go, dont have a clue to be honest.


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