LLM Competition Law

This offers general assistance for postgraduate legal study and to better equip you for other modules in your Masters degree and postgraduate diploma.

It covers legal research, the use of digital library resources and legal writing, as well as completing a dissertation.

This class will focus on developing an understanding of the rationale for EU competition law and policy, the substantive rules and the processes of enforcement.

This course will examine select topics in capital markets, regulation and economic theories underpinning them. This includes the law and economics of disclosure, regulation of market abuse (insider dealing and market manipulation), and the function and regulation of the market for corporate control.

This class will provide you with advanced instruction in the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).   You will explore the core rules of non-discrimination and most-favoured nation treatment, which underpin many of the legal agreements comprising the WTO. You will also look in detail at the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system.  

The analysis will then move on to more specialised WTO agreements. You'll also look at how the WTO disciplines the grant of governmental subsidies to domestic industries.

You will be introduced to the general principles, theories and substantive laws that provide the framework for the international, European and national intellectual property systems for the protection of copyright, trademark and patent.

The digitisation of the global economy is an obvious and rapidly expanding trend. Big Tech companies, which did not even exist 15-20 years ago, are now the biggest in the world. Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook — all of them have changed our consumer behaviour and our way of life in general. All these companies are being placed under very tough scrutiny of competition law. This class will provide students with advanced knowledge of ex ante and ex post competition rules in the area of the digital economy.

This class aims to expand students' knowledge about how competition law regulates the behaviour of state-owned companies and private companies on whom the state confers exclusive rights when they operate in the marketplace in different countries around the world.

The class is designed to provide students with a full awareness of all potential aspects of competition litigation and the private enforcement context, focusing on the UK and EU, but also from a comparative perspective with particular emphasis on aspects of private enforcement in the US.

There will be particular consideration of mechanisms of collective redress and how consumers can recover damages in relation to losses suffered by society as a result of competition law infringements.

This class will introduce students to the concepts underpinning the regulation of businesses. It will explain the different types of business entities and introduce students to company and corporate law concepts.

This class seeks to examine a variety of difficulties and subject matters in the area of financial crime, such as money laundering, insider trading, and fraud. Students will be encouraged to consider why activities are criminal, the wider social context, and the various/best means by which to regulate, in order to combat these crimes.

Students will also consider the shifting nature of financial crime, and how technological innovation provides new difficulties for regulators to address.

This class will examine the relationship between business and human rights and will include an introduction to the international human rights framework, the role of business entities as global actors and the identification of the legal challenges that business presents for the international legal system.

This module considers the law governing all forms of online commercial activity.

It focuses on two areas of particular importance:

• electronic contracts
• intermediary liability

The constraints on contracting in an online environment are central to most e-commerce activities and are therefore of great importance to the growth of e-commerce.

Cybercrime is a highly topical area within the broad theme of internet law and policy. Learning about the laws and legal framework that address transnational cybercrime with a specific focus on internet content crimes such as illegal pornography as well as online contact offences. By studying the class students should be able to develop a detailed understanding and knowledge of the relevant areas of cybercrimes and analyse the various social, legal, criminological and policy aspects and responses to cybercrime.

This module introduces you to the core ideas and legal regimes governing privacy and data protection online, as well as looking at the global issues concerning transnational data flows.

It covers regulation of spam, cookies and spyware; targeted advertising; and other venues for commercial collection of data.

This class familiarises you with telecommunications law in its national, European and international contexts.

The course begins with an overview of the technical and historical development of telecommunications infrastructure, as well as expanding upon the principles of deregulation, market liberalisation and economic policy that led to the current market structure.

The shift towards automated decision-making and algorithmic regulation generates significant concerns for the protection of human rights. At the same time, there is a pressing need to study these technologies’ beneficent effects on human rights.

This module aims to assess the suitability and relevance of existing human rights law in the digital age, and to evaluate conceptual, cross-disciplinary frameworks, which analyse how digital technologies shape developments in human rights law.