Development finance institutions and climate change
Choosing to do a collaborative dissertation represented the optimal ending to my LLM journey as it effectively constituted a sort of academic/professional hybrid project. It thus served as a transition from the mostly academic context of the LLM towards the professional world. However, this also meant managing two sets of sometimes diverging expectations (in my personal case even three sets of expectations due to my scholarship program), which made it a very challenging but ultimately rewarding experience.
The most valuable things about my collaborative LLM dissertation were the insightful interaction with both academic and "professional" supervisors, gaining valuable connections along the way, leaving university with a (hopefully) impactful piece of research work of immediate practical relevance that I can also use as part of various applications, and the fact that the dissemination of my findings seamlessly followed up as part of the collaborative process.
Raphael Beermann, LLM in Corporate and Financial Law (2023)
The collaborative LLM dissertation was a useful experience. I was very happy with the selected student, and the outcome of the project was useful to our work. In particular, the project has helped us identify major hurdles to clear before deciding to develop further work. It has also helped us determining the direction of our work in terms of jurisdictions and geographies to focus on.
Lawyer, environmental law NGO (2023)
