After your LLM

"As a University of Buckingham law graduate, I began my LLM in International & Commercial Law in January 2006. This has provided me with greater opportunities for my future career in my chosen field of commercial litigation. The LLM courses are challenging and the professors offer a great deal of support. In addition to my taught courses I completed a dissertation on Public International Law Defining Intervention, which enabled me to develop my legal research skills and look in more depth into a subject of my choosing.

I have no doubt that the LLM has been an excellent foundation for my LPC studies, which I am now taking at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice."

Kimberley Durrant (LLM 2007)

"I graduated from Buckingham with an LLB degree and returned straight after to study for the LLM. Buckingham's January entry allowed me to complete both my LLB and LLM degrees in under three years.

The flexible nature of the LLM programme allowed me to study taught modules as well as having the opportunity to write a dissertation in Intellectual Property Law, an area (in) which I have become very interested and will pursue in a PhD.

The small group teaching at postgraduate level is a huge advantage and helped me a great deal with my studies."

Since successfully completing his LLM Ben has been accepted to commence research for a PhD at Exeter University.

Benjamin Carter (LLM 2006)

Valentino Moreno Hamilton is a litigation attorney whose practice includes: civil litigation, commercial litigation, personal injuries, trusts, and insurance law.

In 2003 he obtained his LLB from Buckingham with First Class Honours having been adjudged 'primus inter pares' (first among equals) and awarded the Edgar Palamountain Medal for excellence, best performance in LLB final examinations, Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for best continuing student and the Sweet and Maxwell Law Prize. He went on to read for the LLM in International and Commercial Law which he was awarded in 2004.

Upon completion of the bar vocational course at Nottingham Law School in June 2004 he was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Moreno proceeded to secure an enviable position with a leading Bahamian commercial law firm, McKinney, Bancroft & Hughes. McKinney's is one of the largest and oldest law firms in The Bahamas. Moreno is a litigation attorney whose practice includes: civil litigation, commercial litigation, personal injuries, trusts, and insurance law. Later in the same year he was admitted as an attorney of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Valentino Moreno Hamilton (LLB 2003, LLM 2004)

"I completed by masters degree in 1996 and these were the best days in my life. I miss my tutors, professors and friends. After I finished my LLM study at Buckingham, I returned to my country, Jordan. I am now working as a lawyer in an international Jordanian bank. I am a member of a human rights organisation and the Jordan Bar Association."

Basher Alyousef (LLM 1996)

"I am a qualified European lawyer and my employer, an International German-Greek commercial bank, is sponsoring me to complete my LLM degree at Buckingham. I strongly believe that the subjects taught on the LLM qualification will be advantageous to my career in banking and directly benefit my employer. I have used my time studying for the LLM to publish an article in a well-respected Banking Law Journal, having been supervised by Dr Helen Desmond. When I return to work, I plan to study part-time and use my LLM dissertation as the foundation for eventually completing a doctorate in banking law."

Since successfully completing his LLM, which he achieved with distinction, Panagiotis has returned to Greece and is now completing his national service. He has successfully published his LLM dissertation and has submitted an article for publication in the Law School's publication, the Denning Law Journal.

Panagiotis Tsogkas (LLM 2005)