Transnational Law

Postgraduate

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

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.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Strand, WC2R 2LS

Start date

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Human Rights
  • Conflict
  • Corporate Governance
  • Governance
  • Perspective
  • Climate Change
  • International
  • Global
  • Financial
  • Law
  • Private
  • Financial Training
  • Climate

Course programme

Year 1 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)

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.

Modules available within the Transnational Law pathway may typically include:

• Transnational Law: Actors, Norms, Processes – Foundations & Perspectives (20 credits) – Recommended for the Transnational Law pathway
• International Human Rights Law (40 credits)
• International Law & War (40 credits)
• Financial Risk Stability & Regulation (20 credits)
• International Refugee Law (20 credits)
• Transnational & Comparative Contract & Moveable Property Law (20 credits)
• Transnational Corporate Restructuring (20 credits)
• Human Rights in War Times: Armed Conflict, Military Operations & Post-Conflict Justice (20 credits)
• Sociology of Law, Legal Culture & Transnational Challenges (20 credits)
• The Transnational Regulation of Global Networks (20 credits)
• Inequality, Human Development & The Rule of Law in Transnational Perspective (20 credits)
• Transnational & International Criminal Law (20 credits)
• Transnational & Comparative Corporate Law & Corporate Governance I (20 Credits)
• Business & Human Rights (20 Credits)
• Introduction To International Dispute Resolution: Mechanisms Between Private Parties (20 Credits)
• Introduction To International Dispute Resolution: Mechanisms Under International & European Law (20 Credits)
• Introduction To Transnational Litigation (20 Credits)
• Transnational Law & Technological Risk Governance: Expertise, Standards, Legitimation (20 Credits)
• Transnational Feminist Legal Theory (20 Credits)
• Transnational Bank Resolution (20 Credits)
• Corporate Actors In Transnational Sustainability Governance (20 Credits)
• Seas & Oceans: Integrating & Reframing The Law Of The Sea & Maritime Law (20 Credits)
• Transnational Property Law (20 Credits)
• Law & Practise Of The United Nations: Edging Towards Transnational Constitutionalism? (20 Credits)
• The United Nations Collective Security System: When Theory Meets Practice (20 credits)
• Transnational Human Rights Litigation (20 Credits)
• Political Philosophy & International Law (20 Credits)
• Global Law Of Climate Change (20 Credits)

Transnational Law

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