Master of Laws (LLM)

Programme Structure - Face to Face

To qualify with an LLM, students are required to take the module that bears the title of their chosen programme and write a 10,000-word dissertation in the area of their ‘core’ module. In addition, students are required to select three electives.

Assessment involves the writing of a memorandum of advice on a set topic within each module (worth 30 per cent of the marks for that module) and an unseen examination.

Compulsory

• 10,000-word dissertation (60 credits)
• Module (s) that bears the title of their chosen programme
• Three electives from the modules below "(depending on the number of core modules required)"

Modules*

• Commercial Law (30 credits)
• Comparative Commercial Law (30 credits)
• Comparative Corporate Securities Law (30 credits)
• Corporate Finance Law (30 credits)
• Environmental Law and Practice (30 credits)
• Financial Regulation and Compliance (30 credits)
• International Business Law (30 credits)
• International and Comparative Tax Law (30 credits)
• International Corporate Law and Practice (30 credits)
• International Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Law (30 credits)
• International Trade Law and Practice (30 credits)
• The Law of Business Taxation (30 credits)
• The Law of Investigations (30 credits)
• The Law relating to Fraud and Financial Crime (30 credits)
• The Law relating to International Financial Transactions (30 credits)
• Trans-National Criminal Justice (30 credits)
• UK and International Banking Law (30 credits)
• Islamic Business Law (30 credits)
• Islamic Finance Law (30 credits)
• Advanced Islamic Finance and Business Law (30 credits)
• Chinese Business Law(30 credits)
• Chinese Finance and Investment Law (30 credits)
• Chinese Public Law and Human Rights (30 credits)

In the case of the LLM in Chinese Business and Investment Law, the LLM in Islamic Finance and Business Law and the LLM in Advanced Islamic Finance and Business Law, students are required to take two-three ‘core’ modules reducing the number of elective modules that can be taken.

*Modules run subject to demand.

To qualify with an LLM, students are required to take the module that bears the title of their chosen programme and write a 10,000-word dissertation in the area of their ‘core’ module. In addition, students are required to select three electives.

Compulsory

• 10,000-word dissertation (60 credits)
• Module (s) that bears the title of their chosen programme

Three electives from the modules below

• Financial Regulation and Compliance (30 Credits)
• International Business Law (30 Credits)
• International Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Law (30 Credits)
• UK and International Banking Law (30 Credits)
• Advanced Islamic Finance and Business Law (available only as an elective and not a specialism) (30 Credits)