MA Political and Legal Philosophy
Course Overview
This MA in Political and Legal Philosophy offers a deep and flexible exploration of fundamental issues in law, justice, and governance through advanced research. You will develop a substantial independent research project with expert support while joining a vibrant postgraduate community across Philosophy and Law. The program equips you with highly transferable skills in critical analysis and research, providing an excellent foundation for doctoral study or a wide range of professional careers.
Key Program Highlights
- Pursue a substantial, self-directed research project on a topic of your choice
- Select from a diverse and extensive range of specialist option modules
- Develop advanced, transferable skills in research, critical thinking, and analysis
- Join an active research community across both the Philosophy Department and Law School
- Build a strong foundation for a PhD or a career in law, policy, academia, and beyond
Course Overview
This MA in Political and Legal Philosophy offers a deep and flexible exploration of fundamental issues in law, justice, and governance through advanced research. You will develop a substantial independent research project with expert support while joining a vibrant postgraduate community across Philosophy and Law. The program equips you with highly transferable skills in critical analysis and research, providing an excellent foundation for doctoral study or a wide range of professional careers.
Key Program Highlights
- Pursue a substantial, self-directed research project on a topic of your choice
- Select from a diverse and extensive range of specialist option modules
- Develop advanced, transferable skills in research, critical thinking, and analysis
- Join an active research community across both the Philosophy Department and Law School
- Build a strong foundation for a PhD or a career in law, policy, academia, and beyond
Requirements
Modules
- Advanced Topics in Political Philosophy
- Foundational Issues in Legal Theory
- Research Skills and Dissemination Practice
- Advanced Issues in Legal Theory
- Advanced Topics in Ethics
- Comparative Analytic Theology
- Constitutional Law and Theory
- Ethics and Epistemology of Digital Methods in Science
- Freedom, Right, and Revolution: Post-Kantian Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy
- Freedom and Metaphysics
- Issues in the Philosophy of Criminal Law
- Justice, Legitimacy and Democracy
- Law and Society
- Phenomenology and Psychiatry
- Problem Based Learning: Surveillance Capitalism
- Reading Philosophy
- Time, Tense, and Existence
- Topics in Consciousness and Representation
- Topics in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
- Dissertation
