MODULES
Year 1
CORE MODULES
International Law: Problems and Process (Mental Wealth)
The main aim of the course is to stimulate your research interest in topical areas of international law and to develop your research skills in both public and private international law. The course, intended as a core LLM module, presents a survey of key debates in public and private international law. It thereby provides a grounding in the skills and methodologies required for postgraduate study of international law.
Being core to all UEL LLM pathways, this module will also incorporate a series of skills workshops to help orient you on the programme. These will cover essential skills and also address issues of employability and the core competencies of mental wealth.
Advocacy, Interventions and Practice
This module will provide you an overview of the role of advocacy, various forms of interventions and legal practice in an international context. You will explore the various entry points for human rights impact and activism to achieve the objectives of protecting human rights, development and rule of law. You will receive an introduction to the art of advocacy, including court etiquette, and rules and procedures.
Applied Project
The aim of the dissertation is to enable Students to initiate and carry through an academic inquiry outside the formal structure of the taught LLM Modules. Students select their own field of research and build on the knowledge and skills acquired in the taught LLM Modules.
OPTIONAL MODULES
Law of International Finance
In this module you will examine the legal issues created by the international operations of large commercial banks, merchant banks and investment banks. Although based primarily on a discussion and analysis of current London City Practices, reference to other relevant laws are examined. The course has a strong comparative and international law content and emphasises a study of regulatory issues and private international law considerations in the context of international finance.
Financial Crime and Corporate Criminal Liability
- You will develop knowledge and critical understanding of financial crime offences from a domestic, European and international perspective.
- You will examine the most relevant legal issues related to fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion, insider trading and cybercrime.
- You will learn about illustrate the UN, US and EU economic sanctions regimes.
- You will engage with with issues related to proceeds and instruments of crime.
- You will gain an understating of the financial crime compliance measures adopted by corporations to fight against economic crime offenses.
International Corporate Governance
The module aims to provide you with a comprehensive appreciation of the legal, theoretical and practical underpinnings of the operation and control of contemporary corporations. It introduces students to the evolving framework that seeks to regulate the intricate relationships between, and often conflicting interests of, the corporation and its board of directors, the management, shareholders and the broader society within which they operate. Whilst the module draws from English law, it is international and comparative in focus and exposes students to the evolving global corporate governance regimes.
The Law of the World Trade Organisation and Globalisation
The primary aim of this module is to introduce you to complex international trade law and globalization issues. As the approach will be interdisciplinary, at the end of the course you will have an understanding of the history and politics of the post-World War II trading regime in addition to the principles of international trade regulation. You will also interrogate factors and forces shaping globalization and the consequences of this process for the global trading order.
International Criminal Law
The aim of the module is to introduce you to the current debates about international criminal law, its doctrines and institutions with special reference to this newly emerging legal order.
Oil and Gas Law and Policy (Mental Wealth)
The module aims to provide you with a comparative and analytical exploration of contemporary upstream and downstream oil and gas and minerals regulatory trends particularly in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East in some key areas like Oil and Gas Law, Contracting, Decommissioning and Trade. In particular it seeks to give you a thorough grounding in the areas:
- Oil and Gas finance and international economic law
- Energy transactions - Law, policy and practice
- Petroleum development and production arrangements and Rights
- Energy and the International treaty framework
- Economic Integration in the Developing World
- Economic Integration in the Developing World
This module focuses on economic integration in developing countries. It seeks to locate the process of regionalism within the framework of economic, legal and political development in economically disadvantaged parts of the world. The methodology of the module is interdisciplinary. You will explore questions of law, politics, economics, history and sociology. Thus, students are expected to understand both legal and non-legal perspectives on economic integration in developing countries.
Work Based Project
The aim of this module is to give students the opportunity to work as an intern with an organisation on a specific project relevant both to both their work and their LLM studies. You will write an extended piece of research on a project agreed with both the School and the host organisation.
LLM Optional Placement
You can opt in to participate in a placement year, where we will help place you within a business where you can gain hands on experience in law – connecting what you’ve learnt at University to industry. Students wanting to do the Placement year must indicate so upon application.
