Postgraduate Diploma in Law

This program offers our students a specialised postgraduate education. Students are free to choose courses that best suit their career and personal needs. The program is ideal for law graduates who would want to sharpen their legal skills further in a shorter period. It runs for twelve months.

Master of Arts in Revenue Law and Administration (MARLA)

Uniquely interdisciplinary, this course aims to produce a cadre of leaders equipped with refined, specialised professional knowledge that would enable them re-position their respective organisations to meet the demands of today’s dynamic global economy. Specifically, it focusses to equip candidates with advanced knowledge in revenue law and administration. Our graduates will have a full understanding of the laws, policies, and practices relating to taxation and customs.

General Objectives

The programme at equipping students with advanced knowledge in revenue law and administration.

Specific Objectives

The specific objectives of the taught Master of Arts in Revenue Law and Administration are:

• Acquainting candidates with knowledge, skills, attitudes and capabilities on taxation, customs policies and practices.
• Enabling candidates make a substantive and more effective contribution to tax or customs administration.
• Enabling candidates to take an active an active part in tax or customs reforms.
• Enabling candidates plan and implement more effective taxation or customs policies and strategies.
• Enabling candidates perform new tasks relating to taxation or customs in a globalised economy.

Students of this program have an opportunity to major either in taxation.

Compulsory courses for those majoring in taxation;

• Tax Policy and Theory
• Laws on Tax Administration
• International Taxation
• Advanced Taxation
• Revenue Forecasting & Fiscal Analysis 1
• Research Methods
• Graduate Essay

Elective courses

• Income Tax Law
• Indirect Taxes
• Capital Gains and Taxes on Property
• Tax Crimes : Investigations & Prosecutions
• Local Government Taxation
• Tax Compliance and Risk Management

Compulsory courses for those majoring in customs;

• Tax Policy and Theory
• Taxes on International Trade
• Laws on Tax Administration
• Private International Trade and Finance Law
• Customs Management: Theory and Practice
• Research Methods
• Graduate Essay

Elective Courses

• Income Tax Law
• Indirect Taxes
• Tax Crimes Investigations & Prosecutions
• Local Government Taxation
• Public International Trade Law
• Tax Compliance and Risk Management

Master of Laws in Corporate and Commercial Law

This course provides in-depth training on the foundations of the contemporary legal principles that govern business and corporate transactions. It exposes students to new dimensions of corporate law to be able to work in the changing business environment continually.

Specifically, the course intends;

• To introduce new dimensions of the legal issues on corporate and business transactions,
• To explain the legal and policy implications of bilateral and multilateral trading framework, and
• To demonstrate the trends and dynamic nature of the corporate and business law

Some of the compulsory courses for all students include;

• Advanced Corporate Law
• Graduate Research Seminar
• Advanced Banking Law
• Economic and Cyber Crime Law
• Graduate Essay

Also, students may wish to opt some of the following courses;

• Specialized Commercial Entities
• The Law and Financial Markets
• Insurance Law and Technological Developments
• Competition Law
• Advanced Transactional Law

Master of Laws in Taxation

This course aims to train students on the principles and the law on income taxation. Students will also acquire complete skills in the understanding and application of the income tax law and its future developments.

Some compulsory courses offered in this program include;

• Income Tax Law
• Taxes on International Trade
• Laws on Tax Administration
• International Taxation
• Indirect Taxes
• Graduate Essay

Also, a student may opt for some elective courses relevant to his professional needs. Some of the elective courses are;

• Capital Gains and Taxes on Property
• Tax Crimes: Investigations and Prosecution
• Local Government Taxation
• Advanced Taxation
• Law of Trusts
• International Trade and Finance Law

Further details on this course are found in the Postgraduate Prospectus. 

Master of Laws in Migration and Refugee Law

This course aims at exposing students to national regulation of international migration using the Immigration Act and the Refugees Act of Tanzania as a framework of analysis. It examines topical issues in immigration management as well as the impact of treaties and protocols on population movements of which Tanzania is a member.

Some of the compulsory courses in this program include;

• Citizenship Law
• Immigration Law
• Labour Migration Law
• Refugee Law
• Graduate Research Seminar
• Graduate Essay

Details of this programs are found in the Postgraduate Prospectus. 

Master of Laws in Procedural Law and International Legal Practice

This program provides trainees with both advanced and specialised knowledge of rules of practice and procedure in domestic courts, international arbitral tribunals, as well as regional and international judicial bodies.

Specifically, it seeks; 

• To provide advanced training specific procedural issues in criminal trials and civil litigation,
• To expose students to procedures applicable in proceedings before specialised branches of the High Court and other judicial bodies, 
• To provide trainees with knowledge of the rules, procedures and skills, for settling commercial disputes before international disputes settlement mechanisms, and 
• To equip trainees with knowledge of rules and procedures followed before international public law bodies including regional courts, human rights bodies and international criminal tribunals.

Some of the compulsory courses in this program include;

• Advanced Civil Procedure 
• Advanced Criminal Procedure
• Procedure and Practice in International Judicial Bodies
• International Arbitration Law
• Graduate Research Seminar
• Graduate Essay.    

Further details of this programs are found in the Postgraduate Prospectus.