Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
The International Business and Corporate Law stream of the LLM specialises in the complex issues, rules, and regulations in business transactions and corporate law at national and international levels.
The stream covers legal principles related to corporate transactions, activities, governance and finance and practical challenges in the organisation and operation of multinational corporations and cross-border business arrangements. It provides a critical understanding of the policy considerations at the heart of corporate law while developing your ability to analyse, interpret and apply economic, financial, theoretical and socio-legal material to the most pressing contemporary problems in corporate law and practice.
You will need to study two compulsory core modules, 6 options from the rich choice of stream-specific modules and undertake a dissertation on a related topic to gain your specialisation.
A good second class degree or an equivalent degree in an appropriate discipline.
Relevant professional experience post-graduation is given due credit in considering entry requirements.
Our Law Fair is held annually and attracts over 40 law firms and other graduate employers.
Two dedicated law careers tutors are on hand to discuss career options, upcoming opportunities and give advice about different firms.
We host a wide range of external speakers every year, representing the whole legal profession.
Core modules:
Corporate Governance
Company Law
Dissertation
Option modules
Semester 1:
Civil Dispute Resolution Methods
Intellectual Property Law for International Business
International Competition Law
International Sales Law
International Commercial Arbitration
The Law of International Protection: Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Semester 2:
Contemporary Challenges in Intellectual Property Law
Commercialising Space
International Banking Law
International Investment Law
The Practice of International Commercial Arbitration
Up to two of your choices can be from modules which are not in the International Business and Corporate option modules:
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