Strategic Modular Roadmap & Professional Specialization
ICLS provides a specialized consultancy framework for legal professionals seeking to align with global academic standards. Our role is to assist you in navigating a highly adaptable, modular pathway that bridges the gap between your current experience and international recognition.
Flexible Progression
We facilitate a tiered approach to professional development, allowing you to choose your own strategic entry point and milestones. This structure ensures that your professional journey remains manageable over a five-year window.
- Customizable Milestones: Support is available for those aiming for a single specialized certificate (5 modules), an intermediate diploma (10 modules), or the full academic culmination (16 modules).
- Dual Enrolment Windows: Our advisory services are synchronized with the May and October academic cycles to ensure seamless integration with international schedules.
Professional Development
We offer advisory support for both generalist tracks and specialized pathways. For those seeking a specific designation, we guide you through the necessary module concentration in the following sectors:
- Commercial & Enterprise: Corporate Law, International Business, Intellectual Property.
- Global Justice & Governance: Human Rights, International Justice, Public Law.
- Resolution & Advocacy: International Dispute Resolution, Public & International Law.
Candidate Profiling & Eligibility
Our team evaluates your background to determine the most effective starting point within the framework. Primary candidates typically include:
- Legal Graduates: Holders of an LLB or degrees with a significant legal component (50%+).
- Professional Practitioners: Qualified Solicitors, Barristers, or those who have completed the BVC/GDL/CPE.
- Postgraduate Candidates: Individuals already holding a Master’s degree or a second-class bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Law is a flexible, advanced qualification designed for graduates and professionals who want to deepen their legal expertise without committing to a full master’s degree. Delivered by Birkbeck, University of London, the programme offers a wide choice of specialist modules in areas such as commercial law, human rights, and dispute resolution, taught in evening classes with HyFlex delivery for online or on‑campus study. It provides a recognised pathway to the LLM and equips students with strong analytical, research, and practical skills that enhance career opportunities in law, governance, NGOs, and corporate sectors.
- 1 year
- Postgraduate
- Globally Recognised
- Awarding Body: University of London
Programme Overview
Programme Highlights
| Faculty | Law |
| Duration | 1 year part time |
Credits
Typically 60 credits, with option to progress to Diploma or LLM
Language
English
Core Learning Areas
| Commercial & Enterprise | Corporate Law, International Business, Intellectual Property. |
| Global Justice & Governance | Human Rights, International Justice, Public Law. |
| Resolution & Advocacy | International Dispute Resolution, Public & International Law. |
Advance Your Legal Expertise
Graduates of the Postgraduate Diploma in Law gain a recognised qualification that builds specialist knowledge across core and advanced areas of law, opening pathways to further study and professional growth.
Pathway to Advanced Study
Completion of the diploma provides direct progression to the LLM and other postgraduate qualifications, strengthening academic and professional opportunities.
Recognised Qualification
Awarded by the University of London, the diploma is internationally respected and enhances your profile in diverse areas of law and governance.
Career Development
The programme equips you with practical expertise in subjects such as contract, tort, criminal, and public law, supporting careers in legal practice, corporate governance, NGOs, and policy sectors.
Learn From Industry Experts
Haroon Mumtaz
Commercial Corporate Law
Company Law
Barrister Haroon Mumtaz is a partner at Cornelius, Lane and Mufti (CLM). He specialises in Commercial Law, Contract law, Company Law, Arbitration (International and Domestic), Real Estate (project development and conveyancing), Oil and Gas concessions, Telecommunication Laws, Infrastructure and Power Projects, Public-Private Partnerships, Public Procurement, Banking Law, Financial Transactions, Equity and Trusts, Law of Charities and Non Profit Organizations and Administration of Estates and Inheritance laws and general Civil law.
Ayesha Raza Farooq
Ms Ayesha Raza Farooq has recently been appointed as Prime Ministers focal person for anti-polio campaign.
Member national Assembly
Senator
She joined Ramdays in 2009 and attends to the legal as well as quasi-legal matters being handled by the Chamber. In the year 2013, continuing this work while at Ramdays, she also entered politics; was elected as a Member of the National Assembly and in the year 2015, she was elected as a Member of the Senate of Pakistan. During her period, she was assigned the leadership of Polio Eradication in the country and for the extraordinary services rendered by her in the field, she was honoured by the President of Pakistan by awarding her the Sitara-e-Imtiaz.
Ahmer Bilal Soofi
Ahmer Bilal Soofi is the Senior Managing Partner of ABS & Co and the head of its dispute resolution practice.
Arbitration
International Law
He has more than thirty years of experience in representing the federal and provincial governments, ministerial departments, regulatory bodies, financial institutions, listed and unlisted companies, high-net individuals including prince(s) and other foreign sovereigns on a broad range of contentious matters that include commercial, constitutional, tax, employment, trade, energy and other investment disputes.
Everything You Need to Apply
Admission Requirements
- Completed application form
- Academic transcripts & certificates
- 2 passport size photographs
- Birth certificate/CNIC