Hi, my name is Rita and I'm just finishing my degree in laws at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.I 'd like to apply for an llm (september 2008) at the UK but I have not quite decided which one,as I don't have any professional experience,only my Academic degree and an Erasmus experience in a foreign country. I like International law, public,maritime,european,comercial.do you think you could give me an idea about wiich universities are the best in these areas?according to its project,lecturer support,professional prospects post-llm, etc.
By the way, here in my country, we have a different system of grades and degrees (there´s no credit system and the marks are in a scale of 0 to 20). mine is between 12 and 13 on 20. am i a lost case according to your scale??

Can you enlighten me?
thank you

Rita

for international law and Public.. i would say cambridge is the best by a distance.. for maritime it shud be ucl, for commercial queen mary, bristol are good choices although i wud say tht all uni of london colleges have good commercial law programmes... i have absolutely no idea bout european law as it has never been my interest.... about ur grading system i have absolutely no idea... y dont u email a few universities in the uk and ask them wht is ur grade equal to in the uk...

About your grades, look here... that's the KCL website, but it can gives you an idea...

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/apply/pgrad/llm/apply/entry/europe

Thank you booth by the information. seems like I will have to do something about my grades here at the university... I will check every university to get a more accurate idea. at the first sight, KCL is far from what I can offer in the appliance:(

Thanks anyway

rita