International Commercial Law

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The course is centred on the needs of the modern professional lawyer working or intending to work in an international and business environment. Legal study is set in a broad context while giving you a detailed knowledge and depth of understanding.

We offer a wide range of modules so that you can tailor your own degree course according to your interests, whether you choose commercial options to broaden your knowledge, or specialise in a particular area. You can use your research project or dissertation to specialise further in your chosen topic.
The course is delivered by way of interactive seminars with minimal lecturing. This will develop your analytical, critical, communication and research skills.
A compulsory one-week foundation programme precedes the first semester, providing a foundation in the common law and European legal principles. Legal writing, library research and examination techniques are also covered.

We aim to find students appropriate linked vocational activity during their degree and are fortunate to have full-time placement and employability officers dedicated to law students.

Career opportunities
This degree provides highly specialised knowledge and skills for those who wish to be practitioners or work in the wider commercial world.

A Masters degree in law is also a natural stepping-stone towards an MPhil or PhD.

Graduates of this course are working in both the public and private sector in the UK and abroad.

Course Structure
You can choose to take either:

Eight taught modules and a research essay or six taught modules and a dissertation.

If you wish to take the dissertation option (or are required to do so by employers/sponsors), you must discuss the topic of the dissertation with the course leader before undertaking it, so that an appropriate topic can be approved and an appropriate supervisor allocated.

Core modules:

All students must take Researching Business Law.

Optional modules include (not all modules may run in any given academic year):

* Competition Law
* International Carriage of Goods by Sea
* Admiralty Law
* Company Law and Corporate Governance
* Law and Regulation of Financial Markets
* Comparative Law of Financial Crime
* Comparative Trademarks Law
* Management of Intellectual Property Rights
* World Trade: Law and Policy
* International Commercial Arbitration
* Law of International Banking and Finance
* International Sale of Goods Law
* Principles of International Insurance Law
* International Insurance Contracts
* Private International Law (Conflict of Laws)*

*subject to validation

Assessment
Assessment is through a mix of seen and unseen examination questions and independently researched coursework.