Greetings curious reader,

I am seeking information from applicants whose undergoing or undergone a specialised LLM in comparative/international law. I am not here to justify rather what uni ought to be considered the best. However, suggesting, what programme offers the best quantitative, not qualitative, analysis upon comparative/international law. I have been doing my own research upon post-graduate programmes soliciting a LLM in comparative/international law such as:

Leiden, Vienna, Copenhagen, NUS, Kent, Columbia/NYU, Chicago/Northwestern, UIUC, Stanford, Canturbury, Oslo, IE, IHEID, Utrecht, City (HK), Lund, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Ghent, Sussex, UCT, Indiana (IU), Indiana (Bloomington) ANU/Sydney, Iowa, Bangor, Helsinki, Trinity, Essex, UCL, QMUL, Aberystwyth, LSE, Nottingham, Swansea, Leicester, Michigan, SOAS, NUI, Peace, UBA, Heidelberg, McGill, CUPL, Tehran, Turin,Tel Aviv, Penn, Temple, Texas, UHLC, St. Mary's, UCLA/USC, Chapman, USD, Washington (UW), Tufts, Northeastern, LSU, Tulane, Notre Dame, IIT, Loyola (Chicago), GGU, John Marshall (Chicago), Miami, UF, Stetson, American (DC), John Hopkins, Howard, ASU, Samford. ISDE, EUI, IUCTurin, IMLI, SEEU, Riga, CEU, Maribor, Mannheim, American (Cairo), UNSW, FLS, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Strathclyde, IIU (Malaysia), Macau, Ramkhamhaeng, Assumption, IIU (Islamabad), Khazar, BFSU, Peking, Jinan, Delhi, Osmania, Punjabi and NUJS.

If this helps anybody in their search for comparative/international law taught unis. No worries. However, any information or suggestions without using a ranking scale will be appreciated.

Kind regards.

Your post is indeed most interesting. I'll try to add something and to provide a tentative answer, but keep in mind my status is that of an average applicant.

I hold the belief that, even in a field such as int'l law, the brand might have its value. Quite frankly, I do not believe that going to Turin, Lund or Leiden to pursue an LLM would be the best choice, regardless of the amount of coursework related to international law I am not perfectly clear about what you mean by "quantitative analysis": you might also want to consider that I am not a native speaker in relying on this reply.

My dissertation supervisor once suggested that I kept in mind the value of a certain "brand" when electing to apply for an LLM program or another. It is not a matter of rankings as in "Yale leads in this year's US News ranking" but rather something different. Studying in a law school with a certain reputation always helps, while spending a year in Lund where I have no reason to doubt that you could probably and by all means focus on excellent research and take advantage of the scholarship of some great professors probably would not.

The aforementioned dissertation supervisor made this statement extremely clear acting as a referee for my applications, as he refused to write references for school that weren't of his liking. This might as well be too harsh a reaction, but it does portray an accurate rendition of what he believed a fruitful experience should be. And, since he is an extremely prominent international lawyer, I had no interest whatsoever in annoying him.

I am from mainland Europe and I am all for the UK. Cambridge has always been regarded as *the* place to go if you want to pursue the study of PIL, while UCL seems another great option.

In my opinion, what you should be doing is try to understand where do you want to go after graduate study in law. For example, I already hold a postgraduate degree and I could have gone straight into a PhD program in my own Country and theoretically in any other EU Country, but good luck with that... but I loathed the idea, needed a sea change and wish to get into a PhD program elsewhere afterwards. Anyways, I want to do research and could not care less about practicing law as an attorney.

What about you? Do you want to practice law in a firm (I doubt it if you are into PIL, but who knows)? Do you want to be admitted to the bar in the US? Do you want to try working for the UN? In most cases, what will serve you best will be going to a school with a reputation, which might be perceived in a different way from different prospective employers. In some cases, rankings reflect a school's reputation, but in most they won't.

I hope this helps a bit in your quest for the perfect LLM!

Your post is indeed most interesting. I'll try to add something and to provide a tentative answer, but keep in mind my status is that of an average applicant.

I hold the belief that, even in a field such as int'l law, the brand might have its value. Quite frankly, I do not believe that going to Turin, Lund or Leiden to pursue an LLM would be the best choice, regardless of the amount of coursework related to international law I am not perfectly clear about what you mean by "quantitative analysis": you might also want to consider that I am not a native speaker in relying on this reply.

My dissertation supervisor once suggested that I kept in mind the value of a certain "brand" when electing to apply for an LLM program or another. It is not a matter of rankings as in "Yale leads in this year's US News ranking" but rather something different. Studying in a law school with a certain reputation always helps, while spending a year in Lund where I have no reason to doubt that you could probably and by all means focus on excellent research and take advantage of the scholarship of some great professors probably would not.

The aforementioned dissertation supervisor made this statement extremely clear acting as a referee for my applications, as he refused to write references for school that weren't of his liking. This might as well be too harsh a reaction, but it does portray an accurate rendition of what he believed a fruitful experience should be. And, since he is an extremely prominent international lawyer, I had no interest whatsoever in annoying him.

I am from mainland Europe and I am all for the UK. Cambridge has always been regarded as *the* place to go if you want to pursue the study of PIL, while UCL seems another great option.

In my opinion, what you should be doing is try to understand where do you want to go after graduate study in law. For example, I already hold a postgraduate degree and I could have gone straight into a PhD program in my own Country and theoretically in any other EU Country, but good luck with that... but I loathed the idea, needed a sea change and wish to get into a PhD program elsewhere afterwards. Anyways, I want to do research and could not care less about practicing law as an attorney.

What about you? Do you want to practice law in a firm (I doubt it if you are into PIL, but who knows)? Do you want to be admitted to the bar in the US? Do you want to try working for the UN? In most cases, what will serve you best will be going to a school with a reputation, which might be perceived in a different way from different prospective employers. In some cases, rankings reflect a school's reputation, but in most they won't.

I hope this helps a bit in your quest for the perfect LLM!

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