Law and Banking LLM
Postgraduate
In Bangor
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Bangor (Wales)
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Start date
September
This programme is designed to equip students with a general yet comprehensive education in a range of areas within International Banking Law. The course will enable students to master the following important aspects of the discipline: core attributes of a bank (credit institution), different types of banks (retail, commercial, private, etc), regulatory authorities in the UK (FSA, Bank of England and H.M. Treasury); some of the important EU/international banking entities, e.g. ECB, EIB, EBRD, the IMF, Federal Reserve and the World Bank; Authorisation and ‘passporting’ of credit institution activities within the EEA; Capital Adequacy principles/Basel III; the notion of insider trading and the Market Abuse Directive; the supervision of investment firms within the EU and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID); Money Laundering and the three anti money laundering Directives; Islamic Finance and, lastly, Conflict of Laws in a banking/financial services context. Students will have a wide range of Banking Law options to choose from, and may therefore acquire broad as opposed to specialised knowledge.
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About this course
The course aims to enable understudies to: Develop a critical understanding of the basic principles of research design and strategy (including how to formulate researchable questions), sufficient to enable them to make appropriate choices for their own research.
Develop a critical awareness of a broad range of research methods and tools (underpinned by a strong conceptual understanding of the research processes and their underlying philosophies).
Identify, and reflect critically upon, the problems associated with legal research, and develop the appropriate analytical skills for their relevant LLM programme.
Appreciate and use appropriate legal research methods and skills in relation to the submission of legal essays and a dissertation.
Understand how to write an appropriate methodology and literature review for a research project.
Understand how to present a research project proposal.
Develop appropriate communication skills and in particular the ability to communicate in a clear and succinct manner and present relevant legal and policy arguments
Use legal Welsh and/or legal English appropriately in essays and dissertation.
Employment opportunities for graduates of the programme will include work with international law firms; banks or investment firms (as in house counsel); specialised banks or central banks e.g. European Investment Bank, EBRD, the ECB (the EU’s central bank), the African Development Bank, the IMF and the World Bank; national financial regulatory authorities and international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation, the European Union, international courts and tribunals, ‘think tanks’ and research centres, and government (eg. Ministry of Finance). Having taken one of our programmes, there will, of course, also be possibilities for academically inclined students to pursue careers in teaching and research.
IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in each individual component score
Pearson PTE: a score of 62 (with no element lower than 58)
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Competition Law
- International Criminal Law
- Conflict
- International Banking
- Credit
- IT
- Teaching
- LLM
- International
- Banking
- Financial
- Law
- Financial Training
- International Human Rights Law
- International Commercial Arbitration
- European Human Rights Law
- Global Trade Law
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- EU Internal Markets Law
- International Law of Armed Conflict
- Dealing with the Legacies of the Past
Course programme
Law and Banking LLM