Master of Laws LLM in Commercial Law

at University of Exeter

Studying a Master of Laws in Commercial Law offers a rewarding learning experience with opportunities to deepen your understanding of a range of commercial law topics, and to improve skills necessary at all levels of professional engagement with contemporary and future challenges facing businesses around the world.

The Exeter LLM is a substantive, rigorous, and flexible programme of postgraduate study designed for the most ambitious and capable students. You will be actively encouraged to engage in discussion and debates with your peers and academic staff.

Alongside the compulsory dissertation, you’ll choose from an array of optional modules such as Trademarks and International Banking Law to Consumer Protection or Patent and Design Law.

In order to enhance students’ research and learning experiences and to create a vibrant community of postgraduate students enrolled in this programme, students will be affiliated with one of the research centres for the duration of their programme.

If you start the LLM in January, you will complete your dissertation before finishing all the taught elements of the programme. The LLM allows you to take the dissertation without requiring a focus from other modules on the course as there is no prerequisite to the dissertation module. You will choose your dissertation topic during the first term (so we can allocate you an appropriate supervisor) and you will then submit your dissertation before the official deadline in August (date will be confirmed by the Law School).

If you are unsuccessful in completing the dissertation module, you can still complete your final term modules to graduate with either a Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits) or a Postgraduate Certificate (60 credits).

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

Modules

• Dissertation