Course Description

The LLM programmes require commitment to study throughout one calendar year. Students are given the opportunity to develop a number of important skills which are not only essential to those wishing to become lawyers but are valuable, transferable skills in themselves in other employment contexts.

The School offers its postgraduate students dedicated resources, including IT facilities and teaching rooms. Students are fully supported by the School's dedicated Law Librarian and the Law Library holds an extensive selection of legal materials and on-line services such as Lexis and Westlaw. Students are encouraged to make full use of the facilities offered by the Postgraduate Research Faculty and, in particular, to take advantage of training sessions run by the Faculty, such as legal research methods.

This Programme has been developed with a view to providing students with a sound and relevant body of information and understanding, thereby providing an effective springboard to a future career in legal practice or some other profession, or in education, industry, commerce, finance or arbitration.

The degree is divided into Parts I and II. Part I is made up of 4 taught modules each weighted at 30 credits. It is compulsory for students on the LLM in International Business Law to study Law of Intellectual Assets Management & Transactions. Students will be required to take 3 modules from the following list:

• E-Commerce Law
• European Competition Law  
• International Intellectual Property Law
• International Litigation and Arbitration
• International Corporate Law and Governance
• Transnational Credit & Security

Please visit the LLM in International Business Law web page for an outline of the modules
Part II is composed of  two projects (LLM Research Projects), which are weighted at 60 credits. At least one of the Research Projects must be written in the area of Law of Intellectual Assets Management & Transactions.

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