LLM in International Business Law

Master

In Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

£ 15,400 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    September

Introduction to the Programme

This degree aims to enable students to specialise in subjects related to international business law, equipping them with comprehensive knowledge of the legal processes governing international business, through the systematic and critical understanding of topics relevant to international business transactions such as trade law, international sale of goods and commercial arbitration.

Why Study LLM International Business Law?

You will deepen and broaden your knowledge of law as an academic subject; acquiring systematic understanding of legal processes, methods and concepts, of the social and political context in which legal processes take place and of appropriate theoretical conceptions of law.

Ultimately, by maximising your academic potential and refining your problem-solving skills in a transnational context through the acquisition of systematic and critical understanding of complex legal, economic, cultural, ethical and political issues informing international trade relations and transnational business you will enhance your professional development and horizons.

The research and writing skills you gain will be transferable to a variety of professional sectors, including the legal profession, policymaking, corporate sector, governmental bodies or academia.

Course highlights

Advance your knowledge of international business law in a fast-changing global marketplace and an ever-globalised world
Study with teaching staff who are engaged in major research across relevant fields of law, from international sale of goods to law and policy of the WTO and international commercial litigation and arbitration

Learn alongside students from across the globe in one of the world's most business friendly cities.

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Location

Start date

Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
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Knowledge Park, Block 16

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course

Entry requirements
Qualifications
The University's standard entry requirement consists of a Law degree at 2:2 or Graduate Diploma in Law/CPE
Graduates in related disciplines, with law minors or with relevant professional experience or qualifications may be admitted subject to the programme coordinator's discretion
Other non-UK qualifications will be considered in accordance with NARIC guidelines.

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Subjects

  • International
  • IT Law
  • Business Law
  • Human Rights
  • Human Rights Law
  • Discrimination Law
  • Employment Law
  • Discrimination
  • Transactions
  • International Trade
  • English
  • Materials
  • LLM
  • Global
  • Law
  • Writing
  • International Business
  • Trade
  • Dispute Resolution

Course programme

Programme Content

Course Structure

Full-time LLM (1 year, 180 credits)

  • Four core plus two optional modules are completed over terms one and two, with a Dissertation period in term three.

Part-time LLM (2 years, 180 credits)

  • Four core plus two optional modules are completed over four taught terms, plus a Dissertation period
  • Two modules in term one, two modules in term two, and two modules in the first term of the following academic year.
List of modules:
  • Legal Research Skills (20 Credits) – Compulsory
  • Law and Policy of the World Trade Organisation (20 Credits) – Compulsory
  • International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration (20 Credits) – Compulsory
  • Law of the International Sale of Goods (20 Credits) – Compulsory
  • Foundations and Principles of International Law (20 Credits) – Optional
  • International Human Rights Law (20 Credits) – Optional
  • International Organisations and the International Dispute Resolution (20 Credits) – Optional
  • Dissertation (60 Credits) – Compulsory
  • Work Integrated Learning (60 Credits) – Alternative to Dissertation, upon CPC approval.

In addition to the Law modules listed above, students can study one of the following modules if available:

  • UAE and DIFC Employment Law
  • UK and European Anti Discrimination Law
  • Individual Employment Law

*Undersubscribed modules (under 5 students) following the formal registration of students will not run.

** LLM students must study LEX4165 Dissertation, assessed by a 15,000- 18,000 words dissertation in term three, or –if eligible- the diary and original research paper required to complete SSC4060 Work Integrated Learning module.

Module and programme information is indicative and may be subject to change.

    • Dissertation (60 Credits) - Compulsory The module provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate advanced-level legal research skills and understanding in writing a dissertation on a topic proposed by the student and approved by the module leader, drawing as appropriate on knowledge and skills acquired in earlier LLM modules.
    • Law and Policy of the World Trade Organisation (20 Credits) - Compulsory This module is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of global trade regimes through an overview of globalisation and contemporary international economic relations; the regulation of international trade by the WTO; and the relationship between international trade, harmonisation of the law and trade-related issues.
    • Legal Research Skills (20 Credits) - Compulsory

      This module aims to ensure that students are equipped with essential skills for participating successfully in their LLM degree programme, by offering instruction at an appropriately advanced level in legal research skills coupled with practical tasks in analysing legal sources and in making presentations in suitable academic formats in English. The module adopts learner-centred instructional style, combining exposition with exercises, discussion and self-directed learning in a series of workshops supported by online resources.

    • Individual Employment Law (20 Credits) - Optional In this module you will gain an understanding of the way in which the law of contract is applied to the employment relationship and assesses the practical impact of statutory rights on the operation of the contract of employment in the UK. It also provides an understanding of the manner in which the employment relationship can be formed and varied and creates awareness of how the law affects workplace rules and procedures relating to employment protection. The module encourages a critical approach to the legal regulation by examining the social and political context in which individual employment relationships operate in the UK.
    • UK and European Anti-Discrimination Law (20 Credits) - Optional Equips students with a broad knowledge of anti-discrimination law in the UK and in the EU and how these two bodies of law have influenced and are influencing each other. The different forms of discriminatory conduct, the aims of equality law and a number of grounds of discrimination will be examined, as well as positive action, multiple discrimination, equality mainstreaming duties and precarious work and vulnerable workers.
    • UAE and DIFC Employment Law (20 Credits) - Optional
    • International Organisations and the International Dispute Resolution (20 Credits) - Optional Get advanced conceptual insights into the legal, political and structural issues that underpin dispute resolution within international organisations through a thematic focus on issues such as labour, trade, title to territory and international peace and security. You will learn to think strategically about different means of settlement of disputes and their applicability to existing or potential conflicts.
    • Work Integrated Learning (60 Credits) - Optional The module aims to enable students to apply theoretical knowledge and research to anticipate and respond to challenges in a selected workplace experience. The workplace experience may be undertaken as an internship negotiated by the student or in their current workplace or an existing voluntary role. It also aims to foster sustainable long term learning by requiring students to take responsibility for their own learning, design and negotiate learning goals and make informed judgments about their performance across the programme of study. The module asks students to engage as active subjects in the assessment process, thus enhancing the capacity for transformative learning. By selecting a topic of interest grounded in the workplace experience the student will demonstrate reflexivity, self-regulation and self-assessment in their journey towards personal and professional development
    • International Human Rights Law (20 Credits) - Optional To analyse the international human rights law framework under the United Nations and assess its monitoring procedures and efficacy, engaging the complementary America, African and Asian regional systems. Students will be required to reflect on challenges to the implementation of international human rights law globally, as well as engage strategies that advance thematic and country-specific elements of the human rights bodies under the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The module will involve critical research on international human rights mechanisms, including treaty-based and Charter-based bodies, as well as regional commissions and courts. The aim is to reach a comprehensive understanding of the full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and the interaction between domestic, regional and international law in their protection, realisation and fulfilment. Students will be tasked with evolving a rights-based analysis to identify and address gaps that contribute to widespread contemporary global rights violations.
    • Foundations and Principles of International Law (20 Credits) - Optional Students will gain a systematic understanding of the core general rules and principles of international law. Knowledge of this conceptual and legal framework is particularly recommended for those enroling on other specialised LLM courses with an international dimension. The course seeks to enable students to analyse, critically evaluate and provide authoritative commentary on how international law impacts international relations and contemporary concerns such as globalisation, the use of armed force, terrorism, poverty, governance and the regulation of ownership over territory.
    • Law of the International Sale of Goods (20 Credits) - Optional

      This module focuses on the most central channel through which international trade takes place: the sale of goods. It deals with two consequential legal regimes, English law and international law, principally the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Of particular value to those students interested in commercial practice this module presumes familiarity with the principles of contract law and extends these into the international arena with sustained attention given to express and implied terms, the rights and obligations of buyer and seller respectively, remedies, description and quality, carriage of goods, insurance and re-insurance and the impossibility of performance. The module critically compares English law and CISG and increasing tendencies towards convergence between national legal regimes and international treaty law in some but not all areas of the cross-border trade in goods.

      The module aims to increase the students’ ability to understand and to organise for themselves a range of disparate views from practitioners and scholars pertaining to the international sale of goods. It will advance students’ research skills with an emphasis on critical analysis of legal materials such as English, European and other international case law, treasty law and commentary. It aims to enhance the students’ ability to think through the practical, policy and economic implications of legal regimes enabling (or impeding) trade and transactions between parties divided by or purposely straddling legal and geographic boundaries. It expects students to go beyond synthesis to the competent formulation and vigorous defence of their own positions on best practices and on the state of national and international legal regimes, both in written work and in discussions with others.

    • International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration (20 Credits) - Optional

      This module will bring the student up to date with contemporary issues, legal problems and emergent changes in the practice and management of commercial cases that cross jurisdictional lines and may raise conflict of laws questions. It will extend from the jurisdiction of England into European and international jurisdictions. In particular it considers the use of arbitration for expediency and cost savings by medium and large scale enterprises operating within multiple jurisdictions. The module aims to familiarise the student with the original intentions of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as an alternative to litigation, and to critically examine the ways in which arbitration has begun to converge towards procedural and disclosure rules more closely resembling those of traditional court-based litigation – a tendency that is especially apparent in complex international commercial arbitration.

      The module aims to increase the students’ ability to understand and to organise for themselves a range of disparate views on current debates in legal and ADR practice and scholarship. The module will advance students’ legal research skills, with an emphasis on critical analysis of legal materials. It aims to enhance students’ ability to discern strengths and weaknesses in scholarly materials in allied disciplines (such as economics) where these assist the study of law. It expects students to go beyond synthesis to the competent formulation and thoughtful defence of an original position on these debates in their own written work and in discussions with peers and the instructor.

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Additional information

Start: September
Duration: 1 year full time, 2 years part time
Attendance: Full Time / Part Time
Course leader: Daphne Demetriou
Fees (Total): 15.548,44 GBP
September 2020
Year 1 - 7774,22
Year 2 - 7774,22 (Part Time)
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LLM in International Business Law

£ 15,400 VAT inc.