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Queen Mary University Offers in Greece new LL.M. in international shipping law

The Hellenic Management centre is proud to announce a prestigious collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, offering: The LLM in International Shipping Law (Piraeus, Greece), a new programme based on the successful London-based LLM in International Shipping Law.

The programme will be taught by experts of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of the Queen Mary University of London, one of UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions with its Law Department currently being ranked 3rd in the UK and 1st in London.

The programme will be taught in co-operation with the Hellenic Management Centre (HMC), an institute committed to professional education and development within the shipping industry since 1999; at its premises in Piraeus.
This innovative postgraduate diploma offers students the opportunity to develop academic and professional expertise in specialized areas of global maritime law, including Maritime Arbitration, Charterparties: Law and Practice, Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs, Marine Insurance Law, Carriage of Goods by Sea, "Wet" Shipping Law: Collisions and other Incidents at Sea.

The programme is addressed to Lawyers, Law graduates, and Shipping Professionals with relevant work experience and an academic background and is taught in six intensive blocks throughout two academic semesters, so that it can be fitted in with any other professional commitments.

The entry requirements for Law graduates are a degree in law, or a degree with substantial law content, normally of at least upper second class honours (or equivalent), whereas nonlaw graduates will be considered on the basis of professional experience that directly relates to the specialist LLM taught courses. Membership of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers along with professional experience will also be considered.

It is a unique opportunity for people living in Greece, to attend this prestigious programme without having to relocate, while at the same time three partial scholarships are available for this programme: two partial scholarships offered by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and open to Home/EU students only and one partial scholarship offered by Curzon Shipbrokers Corp. and open to Greek nationals who have received an unconditional offer.

Applications are open and limited places remain available for the 2015 intake.