How to specialise in employment law

Get yourself a HR job in a large company there there are likely to be many issues which are employment law related. Make yourself THE employment law expert.

Reading employment law books such as Selwyn's, subscribing to Croner's law publications or the vast amount of info on the internet etc., I believe there's also an LLM in Employment Law, but I don't know much about it and many of the people who post answers on here may not have it - so I can't comment.

This is possible even if the company employees solicitors, lawyers and/or HR law specialists. Once the company sees you as having the ability to do away with them they will no longer need them!

The immediate answer is level 7
The ultimate answer is to study for a Masters in Employment law (LLM)

it is best done locally but Leicester do it half remotely and partly at residential weekends

These days there is so much you can acquire on the internet (if you are selective and can distinguish Australian and American cases/legislation? Good publications like IDS are helpful if you can gain access but the internet and solicitor newsletters and breakfasts not to mention the fact that most CIPD branches will do at least an annual legal update. There is no shortage. It also helps if you are lucky! enough to have to research and apply.

I'm currently looking at an Employment Law masters at Kingston university - evenings I believe, over two years.

Go for it

Nina, is this the LLM course but just taking the Employment Law modules? I'd love to do something like this; it'd be incredibly interesting.

Nina, is this the LLM course but just taking the Employment Law modules? I'd love to do something like this; it'd be incredibly interesting.

To be honest I will know more in a couple of weeks as I'm going to an open day (evening) on 19th June - but my intention as you say is to do the LLM and choose the employment law modules - which from what I can understand from their website, results in the LLM Employment Law.

I'm drawn to it obviously because of the subject matter, and also because it's all assessed by coursework rather than exams. After my graduate diploma in law, I swore I'd never do postgraduate study again that required that kind of cramming/exams. Not just because my hand had turned into a claw by the end of the exams (though it was a factor) but because the quality of my learning was so much less than studying through coursework.