Law: New course in Nottingham

NOTTINGHAM Law School, whose new building was opened this week, is introducing an LLM in advanced litigation, aimed at meeting the professional development needs of practitioners. The course is being taught through the school's Centre of Advanced Litigation, which already runs litigation schools offering 'training by doing', according to Professor Nigel Savage, dean of the law school. 'Out of those schools emerged the litigation LLM,' Prof Savage says. 'The idea is for it to cover all aspects of the litigation process, focusing on project management - the management of discovery, of experts and so on.'

The course, which begins in January, will run for six long weekends over two years, and is designed for solicitors with at least two years' experience in a litigation department. The course team includes Prof Savage and Prof Peter Jones, the director of professional development at Nottingham.

The law department at the University of Essex is setting up a new part of its LLM course next October. Known as the Pallas Project, the new course focuses on European business law and features intensive, small group teaching by academics from across the Community.