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LLM Transnational Law

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    LLM One year FT, two years or four years PT

Course Description

This new LLM is the only programme of its kind to teach core legal courses from a distinctly transnational perspective. With the globalisation of law at its centre, it prepares graduates for a career in a fast-changing global context, teaching competence to analyse complex legal problems through solid legal doctrine, training in transnational legal cultures, lawyerly practice, legal theory, and law’s global socio-economics.

Key benefits

  • Taught by world leaders in their fields with a strong emphasis on rigorous analysis combined with ‘thinking outside the box’.
  • A foundational core module on ‘Transnational Law and Global Governance’ and a ‘Transnational Law Colloquium’ featuring intensive interaction with experts from legal London and global practice and academia.
  • Covering key areas in public law from a transnational law perspective, including human rights, development, refugee law, criminal law, policing & security and the interplay between domestic and international organizations.
  • Covering key areas in transnational private law, including corporate governance, corporate restructuring, commercial arbitration, labour law, business & human rights, and family law.
  • Modules will investigate through an inter-disciplinary lens the co-existence of different normative orders and discuss issues of jurisdiction, legal pluralism, indigenous law and the tension between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law with a view to addressing urgent transnational legal problems of poverty, climate change, financial governance and post-conflict justice.

Entry Requirements

Minimum requirements to be considered for the LLM:

Undergraduate degree with high 2:1 honours (i.e. overall average of at least 65%) in Law or a degree with at least 70% law content, or an equivalent international qualification and grading.

Exceptionally, you may be considered where a comparable academic level has been achieved through other graduate studies (such as a Graduate Diploma in Law) and where work or experience (at least three years legal work experience) has made you a suitable candidate for the LLM.

Fees

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/tuition-fees

Student Destinations

In a competitive world we can give you the competitive edge to take your career to the next level. That’s why you’ll find our LLM programme is supplemented by opportunities to develop your skills and professional networks.

Module Details

Required Modules

You will have to take one of the following writing projects:

  • Dissertation (40 credits)
  • Dissertation (60 credits)
  • 10,000 word practice or research module (40 credits)

AND

  • Transnational Law: Actors, Norms, Processes – Foundations And Perspectives (20 credits)
Optional Modules

In order to meet the 180 credit requirement, students must select at least 100-120 credits from a range of optional modules. Students who wish to specialise within a certain pathway must ensure that at least 120 credits are taken within that pathway.

Examples of modules available with Transnational Law:

  • Transnational & Comparative Commercial And Financial Law
  • Transnational Corporate Restructuring
  • Law and Society In China
  • Human Rights In War Times: Armed Conflict, Military Operations And Post-Conflict Justice
  • Sociology Of Law, Legal Culture And Transnational Challenges
  • The Transnational Regulation Of Global Networks
  • Inequality, Human Development And The Rule Of Law In Transnational Perspective
  • Transnational And International Criminal Law
  • Business And Human Rights
  • Morality And The Law: Transnational Perspectives
  • Global Law Of Climate Change
  • Introduction To IDR: Mechanisms Between Private Parties
  • Introduction To IDR: Mechanisms Under International And European Law
  • Introduction To Transnational Litigation
  • Advanced Seminar On Selected Topics In International Arbitration
  • Transnational Law And Technological Risk Governance: Expertise, Standards, Legitimation
  • Transnational Bank Resolution
  • Corporate Actors In Transnational Sustainability Governance
  • Transnational Human Rights Litigation
  • Political Philosophy And International Law

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