International Commercial Law LLM

Compulsory

• LX5500 - Dissertation
  A 15,000 word assignment to enable you to acquire a well-developed knowledge and understanding of an area of law within the scope of your programme and to improve skills in legal research and writing.
• LX5613 - World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law
  Providing a thorough understanding of the basic rules in the world trading system under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and considering them in their economic, historical and political context. This module allows you to critically analyse the theoretical and political bases of trade liberalisation and the institutional background to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the WTO.
• LX5655 International Commercial Law
  In this module you will be introduced to the general framework of international commercial law, the law of international sale contracts and related matters, including cross-border dispute resolution, transport, and broader social concerns such as labour and corruption.

Optional

• LX5528 - International Environmental Law
  This module allows you to study and assess the core legal provisions and principles relating to the environmental law of the International community of States and the European Union, and to study and assess developments in specific areas or sectors of concerned with environmental protection.
• LX5650 - Contemporary Themes in Intellectual Property Law and Policy
  This module covers the contemporary issues arising around Intellectual Property Law and Policy. It adopts an international and comparative analysis to observe the role of intellectual property right in the knowledge-based economy and society, its shifting boundaries, overlapping aspects and trends towards harmonisation and globalisation as well as internationalisation of enforcement of IP rights.
• LX5663 - Comparative Corporate Law

  This module deals with key issues of corporate law from an international perspective and focuses on theoretical and practical underpinnings of modern corporations that are applicable across the globe.

• LX5664 - Principles of Corporate Law

  This module builds on a general understanding of the foundations of UK corporate law and examines particular topics, in particular corporate governance, protection of minority shareholders and directors’ duties.

• LX5609 - Theory of International Financial Regulation
  This module addresses the function and significance of national and international financial markets; the international legal framework for international financial markets; the role of international financial organisations; and national financial regulation in a global context.
• LX5616 - Privacy and Data Protection
  This module aims to provide you with essential knowledge about the theoretical rationales and policy arguments for both privacy and data protection.
• LX5617 - Principles of International Commercial Arbitration
  Providing an understanding of the general principles of international arbitration and a comparison of the main alternative dispute resolution processes – arbitration, mediation and adjudication, this module allows you to critically analyse the use of arbitration to resolve international business and commercial disputes.
• LX5624 - Internet Law I - Substantive Legal Issues
  This module intends to examine the nature of the Internet and its impact on commerce. It covers subjective legal issues of Internet Law and it analyses relevant international regulatory framework in response to the development of new technologies.
• LX5646 - International Intellectual Property Law
  This module will focus on the international developments in Intellectual Property law. You will review the policy implications of the globalisation of intellectual property rights. This will include the study of WIPO treaties and the TRIPs Agreement as well as bilateral and multi-lateral agreements (such as ACTA).
• LX5612 - World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Human Rights Law
  This module aims to allow you to understand that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is often accused of, at best, not paying enough attention to human rights or, at worst, facilitating and perpetuating human rights abuses particularly its impact on poor people within developing States. It also aims to allow you to undertake a detailed analysis of the main human rights concerns relating to the WTO. These include the alleged democratic deficit within the WTO and the impact of WTO rules on the right to health, labour rights, the right to food, and on questions of poverty and development.
• LX5619 - Practice of International Financial Regulation
  This module addresses the function and significance of national and international financial markets; the international legal framework for international financial markets; the role of international financial organisations; and national financial regulation in a global context.
• LX5653 - European and International Media Law
  This module will prepare you to deal with a variety of complex legal aspects of media law and regulation from comparative and international legal perspectives. It will be particularly useful and will provide an attractive alternative for IP students less interested in patent law and wishing to deepen their understanding in the area of soft IP.
• LX5652 - Principles of International Investment Arbitration
  This module aims to provide an understanding of the law governing international investment arbitration.
• LX5649 - International Dispute Settlement
  The main focus of the module will be on the private international law problems that will arise in a context of commercial disputes with an international element. The specific objectives of the course are to provide advanced instructions in several aspects of private international law that are of particular relevance to international commercial litigation, and to examine critically jurisdictional rules that will be applied by the courts in respect of commercial disputes with an international element.
• LX5661 Energy Law

  The module will examine how states and the international community, in particular the United Nations, have responded to various challenges for the energy sector and attempted to find solutions. 

• LX5658 Banking and Tech Law
  Recently, banks and other financial institutions have made considerable investments in financial technologies. This is inevitably changing the industry from a business and regulatory perspective. This module will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of the interplay between the banking industry and the technological world.
• LX5657 Governance, Regulation and Compliance
  This module will introduce you to the foundations of compliance in a financial institution and financial department of a corporation, while also providing a comprehensive inspection of governance and regulatory risk approaches.
• LX5672 - Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and ESG

  The module examines and critically analyses corporate responsibility, and the requirements of Sustainability and ESG in modern business and the international dimensions of these concepts. 

• LX5666 Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics
  This module is designed to explore the legal and ethical concerns raised by AI and innovations centred on it. It covers topics including the ethical compatibility of AI-driven decisions, AI and Credit Scoring, AI and Public Law including Administrative and Judicial Decisions. The aim of the module is to provide students a solid understanding of the most significant legal, policy and ethical debates in these area by examining advanced literature, statutes, judicial and administrative decisions and soft laws (guidelines and recommendations).
• LX5647 - Business and Human Rights
  This module addresses the links between business (broadly understood) and human rights. It seeks to identify how corporations (including supply chains), investment, trade liberalisation, sovereign debt and intellectual property affect the enjoyment of human rights.