Corporate Law

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The current financial crisis has evidenced the need to analyze the effectiveness of corporate law in its economic, financial and global context. The LLM in Corporate Law is an innovative programme that aims to transcend a narrow focus on legal rules, and situate the study of corporate law in a wider interdisciplinary and comparative framework. The programme will equip students with discipline-specific and transferable skills that are particularly valuable to businesses, professional practices and regulatory bodies.

The LLM in Corporate Law is designed to ensure that students will develop their knowledge and skills along three dimensions of knowledge: UK company law; comparative and international aspects of corporate law; economic and financial aspects of corporate law. The programme responds to the increasing market demand for versatile corporate lawyers, by offering a unique portfolio of courses that allow students to acquire in-depth knowledge of legal, economic, financial and comparative matters covering the entire life-cycle of a corporation.

Programme Objectives
The LLM in Corporate Law aims to equip students with:

* A critical understanding of the main legal, economic and financial matters pertaining to the entire life-cycle of a corporation at UK level and in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective
* A sound understanding of fundamental concepts of finance and economics which are necessary for a holistic understanding of the context in which corporate law and regulation operate
* An ability to work with international legal materials and to grasp the legal implications of transactions involving international institutions and corporations
* A critical awareness of the theoretical and practical challenges created by the globalisation of business and the increasing cross-border mobility of corporation.

The LLM in Corporate Law may be taken over one year (full-time) or two years (part-time). In order to be awarded the degree, students must complete a total of 180 credits, including a 10,000-word supervised dissertation, worth 60 credits. The remaining 120 credits (60 credits per semester) are divided as follows:

40 credits of mandatory courses

* Corporation Law and Economics (semester 1, 20 credits)
* Comparative Corporate Governance (semester 2, 20 credits)

40-80 credits of optional courses from the following list:

40 credit courses

* Company Law (40 credits)
* Financial Models and Derivatives in a Legal Context (40 credits)
* Regulation of International Finance: the Law, the Economics, the Politics (40 credits)

20 credit courses

* Banking and Finance Law (20 credits)
* Commercial Banking and Financial Markets (20 credits)
* Comparative and International Trust Law (20 credits)
* Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (20 credits)
* European Law of Capital Markets (20 credits)
* European Procurement Law (20 credits)
* Principles of Competition Law for Innovation (20 credits)
* Principles of Insurance Law (20 credits)
* Principles of International Tax Law (20 credits)
* State Aid (20 credits)

0-40 credits of other LLM courses offered by the Law School, or of post-graduate courses offered by other Schools.

The minimum entry requirement for the programme is a UK 2:1 honours degree or an equivalent degree from another country. In addition, international students must have an IELTS score of 7.0 or higher, with 6.0 in each section, or equivalent English language standard. English Language Requirements IELTS band: 7 TOEFL iBT® test: 100 IMPORTANT NOTE: Since April 2014 the ETS tests (including TOEFL and TOEIC) are no longer accepted for Tier 4 visa applications to the United Kingdom. The university might still accept these tests to admit you to the university, but if you require a Tier 4 visa to enter the UK and begin your degree programme, these tests will not be sufficient to obtain your Visa. The IELTS test is most widely accepted by universities and is also accepted for Tier 4 visas to the UK- learn more.

Edinburgh Law School will offer five Tercentenary Awards for Excellence across all the LLM and MSc Programmes in the School starting in 2012, including the LLM in Corporate Law. This award will provide funding of £1,000 towards tuition fees.