The Faculty of Law offers five graduate programmes – The UWI LLM (Master of Laws) Corporate & Commercial Law, The UWI LLM Public Law, the MPhil/PHD (Master of Philosophy/Doctor of Philosophy) in Law programme as well as the LLM Intellectual Property in Creative and Cultural Industries.
The UWI LLM programme fulfils the mission of The University of The West Indies by advancing legal education and creating knowledge through excellence in teaching, intellectual leadership and outreach. It supports the social, economic, political, cultural, environmental development of the Caribbean region and beyond. It serves The UWI’s vision by providing innovative, internationally competitive legal education with a specific focus on West Indian law. By relying upon eLearning technologies, the UWI LLM caters to an international student base, including the wider Caribbean diaspora.
The Corporate and Commercial Law programme aims to enhance the ability of lawyers and other qualified persons working in the corporate and financial services sector throughout the region to function more effectively in such areas as Corporate Law, Offshore Financial Law, Corporate Finance, Insolvency Law and Intellectual Property Law.
The Public Law programme aims to provide legal practitioners, magistrates, senior public servants and other qualified persons with advanced training and a deeper understanding of issues in the core subjects of Constitutional and Administrative Law, in addition to others relevant to the regulation of public authorities, so as to enable them to represent their clients more effectively before the courts.
This LLM (Intellectual Property in Creative & Cultural Industries) programme offers students the unique opportunity for specialized study of intellectual property law applied to creative and cultural industries. It will attract and train students from Jamaica, the Caribbean, and other jurisdictions who are interested in acquiring professionally relevant knowledge and practical skills in this area of law.
