Overview

This well-known specialist LLM, led by a team of reputed academics,

explores the complex legal issues arising out of international banking,
trade and business from the standpoint of both transactional perspective
and dispute settlement mechanisms (litigation and arbitration).
Particularly oriented towards practice in these fields, the modules have a
strong international dimension.

Key benefits
Reputed teaching team made up of senior academics with a strong
practitioner background, giving the specialist LLM its strength and
credibility.
Oriented towards professional practice; approaches the law and
teaching from a problem-solving standpoint, with emphasis on
critical analysis of the law and its development and practical
application.
Unrivalled location in the heart of legal London, with links to the global
law firms and the Bar.

Personal statement and supporting information

Application closing date
The deadline for applications is 01 April 2016 for 2016 entry. Prior to this
date all applications will be given equal consideration and considered on
their individual merits. After this date and up to 01 July 2016 applications
will be considered subject to the availability of places, thus we encourage
you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Please note that funding deadlines may be earlier.

Course detail
Description
The LLM will focus its core on international trading and
financial/banking transactions (eg. modules such as International Trade
Law and the Law of International Finance) and the resolution of
international business disputes through arbitration and/or business
litigation (eg modules such as International Commercial & Investment
Arbitration and International Business Transactions Litigation).
It is strongly oriented towards practice in these fields and therefore has a
support group of relevant comparative law modules that are regarded as
being useful to working in this area, such as Transnational &
Comparative Commercial & Financial Law and International &
Comparative Law of Trusts.
The regulation of global trade under the aegis of the World Trade
Organisation and the taxation of international business is also covered.
The leader of this pathway is Professor Ravi Tennekoon.

Course purpose
This highly respected LLM aims to offer a unique student experience by
taking advantage of our outstanding and wide ranging academic
reputation in this field, with emphasis on innovative and problem-solving
teaching methods as well as our comparative and international outlook.
This programme allows you to deepen or to broaden your knowledge of
law as an academic subject and assists your professional development by
enhancing your problem-solving skills in a transnational context.
Designed to maximise students' intellectual potential, it also keeps you
grounded by drawing on the real world experiences of staff and other
practitioners.
The LLM offers a sharpened focus on our key areas of excellence and a
commitment to offer a premier programme and a world class student
experience. Aimed at recent law graduates (or graduates of joint degrees
with a significant law content) as well as established legal professionals
who may have graduated a number of years ago, the programme is
rigorous and demanding and requires serious commitment.
Further literature
LLM brochure

Course format and assessment

In the first and second semester you study your selection of taught
modules (half and full). These are in most cases assessed in the third
semester (May/June) by written examination, or in some cases by the
submission of an assessed essay.
Please see further details for each individual module in the LLM module
list that can be found by clicking here

Dissertation or research essays must be submitted in September, after the

May/June examinations.

Fees and funding

Full time tuition fees - Home/EU
13,800 p.a. (2016/17)*
Full time tuition fees - Overseas
19,800 p.a. (2016/17)*
Part time tuition fees - Home/EU
6,900 p.a. (2016/17)*
Part time tuition Fees - Overseas
9,900 p.a. (2016/17)*
*This tuition fee maybe be subject to annual increases.