Course Overview

Construction law and practice affects stakeholders working across the international construction sector. Gain the necessary legal knowledge and commercial awareness to perform your current role more effectively, or make the career move into this field, with our MSc Construction Law and Practice degree.

Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and delivered exclusively online, our postgraduate qualification is designed to help you examine the responsibilities of employers, contractors and construction professionals together with the problems raised by the complexities of construction, design liability and insurance.

Led by academics and industry practitioners, you will build your knowledge of construction contracts and the law underpinning them, together with a wide range of standard form contracts to assess and manage risk. You will also examine the complex issues arising from the multi-party nature of the construction process, together with the uncertainties that can arise from the passage of time and latent defects.

You will:

• Examine construction practice from a legal perspective, with detailed consideration of construction contracts, tortious and multi-party liability, insurance, dispute resolution, procurement, and the environment

• Develop the knowledge to conduct and communicate legal analysis with confidence and accuracy in relation to any aspect of mainstream professional construction practice

• Build the skills and capabilities to prepare you for career opportunities with specialist construction law departments or firms

General Eligibility

Undergraduate degree

• A second class undergraduate honours degree in a relevant discipline, or

• A second class undergraduate honours degree in an unrelated discipline and significant relevant work experience within the built environment, or

• A recognised appropriate professional qualification such as RICS or CIOB

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• The IELTS score for international applicants is 6 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).