LLM/PgDip/PgCert International Commercial Law

This class will provide you with advanced instruction in the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

You'll explore the core rules of non-discrimination and most-favoured nation treatment which underpin many of the legal agreements comprising the WTO. You’ll also look in detail at the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system.

The analysis will then move on to more specialised WTO agreements such the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, the Antidumping Agreement and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. You'll also look at how the WTO disciplines the grant of governmental subsidies to domestic industries.

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 is compulsory for LLM/PgDip students. It's offered by online distance learning across both semesters.

The aim of the module is to help you enhance your research abilities and skills with a view to improving your performance in course. 

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
• the identification of the legal challenges that business presents for the international legal system

This class aims to give students a broad introduction to intellectual property law in the UK, the EU and internationally. The class will look at patents and trade secrets, trademarks, copyright law, and software and databases.

This class focuses on legal developments in electronic contracting, from current legal problems with contract formation and e-signatures, to consumer protection, e-commerce regulation and jurisdiction, and applicable law for online contracts.

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.

This course will examine select topics in capital markets regulation and economic theories underpinning them, including:

• the law and economics of disclosure
• regulation of market abuse (insider dealing and market manipulation)
• the function and regulation of the market for corporate control

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 class will provide students with a detailed knowledge and critical understanding of important aspects of domestic and international arbitrations, particularly in the context of the construction industry.

International Migration Law - The class will provide students with an opportunity to engage with core aspects of international migration law. It will equip students with the necessary tools to evaluate critically legal responses to the global human phenomenon that is international migration.

Google, TikTok, Amazon… Digital services have become an integral part of our lifestyle. While the digital economy is here to stay, it also brought a plethora of issues to the field of competition law. This class introduces students to the fundamentals of digital business models and of competition law. We then discuss competition law cases concerning self-preferencing, disputes over data and digital content, privacy, the prevalence of ecosystems and new forms of economic power. In the last part, we explore the brand new ex-ante competition regulations that were shaped by the preceding case law: The EU Digital Markets Act and the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill.