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Høst 2024

JUR-3910 Master's thesis in Law of the Sea - 30 stp


The course is administrated by

Det juridiske fakultet

Type of course

The course is part of the Master of Laws (LL.M) in Law of the Sea programme, cf. Programme description for Master of Laws (LL.M) in Law of the Sea.

Only students admitted to the Master of Laws (LL.M) in Law of the Sea programme may register for this course.

For students on the Master of Laws (LL.M) in Law of the Sea programme, semester 1 and 2 (JUR-3050, JUR-3054, JUR-3052 and JUR-3053) must successfully be completed before admission to this course (semester 3), cf. Regulations for the Law of the Sea programme, section 8.


Course contents

The course builds on and is intended to develop the knowledge and skills acquired by the students during the previous courses of the programme, including the written assignments and methodological knowledge and skills. The purpose of the master's thesis is to provide the students with practice in processing and presenting lager legal or partly legal research questions, based on an independent analysis of theme and sources. The students shall write the thesis single-handed.

The master's thesis shall give an in-depth study within a particular topic. In taking advantage of the offer of supervision of their thesis students will practice in keeping with time table with several dead-lines before final submission of thesis.


Objective of the course

Knowledge:

A student who successfully completes this course shall have acquired:

Skills:

A student who successfully completes this course shall be able to:

General competence:

A student who successfully completes this course shall be able to:


Language of instruction

English

Teaching methods

This course uses interactive and dynamic teaching methods, comprising a total of 10 hours. The course includes both lectures and seminars. As part of the teaching methods is a mandatory course providing an introduction to writing a major paper and on scientific thinking. The students are required to attend this introductory course.

Students are required to submit a master’s thesis topic proposal to the Faculty of Law for approval within a fixed dead-line.

The students are entitled to 19 hours of individual supervision during the writing of the master's thesis, cf. the Regulations for the Master of Laws in Law of the Sea program, section 17. The supervisors are primarily appointed amongst the staff from the Faculty of Law, but in special circumstances or due to their field of expertise, the Faculty may appoint external supervisors.