Master of Laws

The student must register for 5 courses. The following are the compulsory courses:

• Advanced Legal Skills
• Legal Reasoning and Argumentation
• Integrated Skills Projects

For specialization, a student has to select two other courses in addition to the compulsory courses.

a) Commercial Law

• Commercial Court Ligigation
• General Principles of Contract Drafting

b) Constitutional Law (select any two from the five (5) elective courses)

• Democratization and Politics in Africa
• Comparative Constitutional Law in Africa
• Elections and Electoral Systems in Africa
• African Human Rights Law

c) General LLM

• Any of the three(3) compulsory courses, and
• Any of the other two courses on offer

Two-year Master of Laws (Research)

• Legal Research Methods (compulsory first-year course)
• Dissertation

The applicants must possess

• A Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zambia or any other recognized University with a credit;
• A minimum of two years post qualifying professional experience; (an advantage); or
• a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zambia or any other recognized university with a pass, and a minimum of 4 years of acceptable professional experience.

Prospective candidates for this programme apply through the DRGS.

By Research

The applicants must possess:

• A Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zambia or any other recognized University with a minimum of an upper credit or its equivalent
• A minimum of two years’ post qualifying professional experience. (an advantage)

Prospective candidates for this programme apply through the Directorate of Research and Graduate Studies of the University of Zambia (DRGS).