Master of Laws (LLM Law)

Compulsory

• LX5500 - Dissertation
  A 15,000 word assignment to enable you to acquire a well-developed knowledge and understanding of an area of law within the scope of your programme and to improve skills in legal research and writing.

Optional

• LX5677 - AI and Compliance

  This module is designed to equip students with an in-depth understanding of the complex regulatory and governance frameworks for AI, primarily focusing on legal compliance with sectoral, and cross-sectoral AI legislations, with special emphasis on impact assessments.

• LX5666 - Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics

  This module is designed to explore the legal and ethical concerns raised by AI and innovations centred on it. It covers topics including the ethical compatibility of AI-driven decisions, AI and Credit Scoring, AI and Public Law including Administrative and Judicial Decisions.

  The aim of the module is to provide students a solid understanding of the most significant legal, policy and ethical debates in these area by examining advanced literature, statutes, judicial and administrative decisions and soft laws (guidelines and recommendations). 

• LX5658 - Banking and Technology Law

  Recently, banks and other financial institutions have made considerable investments in financial technologies. This is inevitably changing the industry from a business and regulatory perspective. This module will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of the interplay between the banking industry and the technological world.

• LX5663 - Comparative Corporate Law

  This module deals with key issues of corporate law from an international perspective and focuses on theoretical and practical underpinnings of modern corporations that are applicable across the globe.

• LX5675 - Copyright and Allied Rights

  The module aims to provide students with essential knowledge about UK copyright law and trademark law at both EU and international level.

• LX5672 - Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and ESG

  The module examines and critically analyses corporate responsibility, and the requirements of Sustainability and ESG in modern business and the international dimensions of these concepts. 

• LX5653 - European and International Media Law

  This module will prepare you to deal with a variety of complex legal aspects of media law and regulation from comparative and international legal perspectives.

  It will be particularly useful and will provide an attractive alternative for IP students less interested in patent law, and wishing to deepen their understanding in the area of soft IP. 

• LX5688 - Human Rights in Practice

  This module will give students a detailed overview of international human rights law in context. It will incorporate a practical element in the application of human rights, in the form of briefs, case-studies and advocacy tools in each right. Students will examine the main international human rights and their implementation and enforcement of international human rights, especially within the UN human rights regime. Students will critically assess the role and functions of the relevant UN human rights monitoring mechanisms, and discuss and evaluate key human rights law concepts and norms and their role in the development of international human rights law.

• LX5682 - Global Governance and Human Rights

  This module is designed for students who wish to develop a solid understanding of the international human rights system and its global governance structure. In this module, we consider the UN human rights institutional set-up, and briefly consider the historical origins of the UN system of protection, and the creation of today’s UN human rights institutional framework.

  We also examine and critically discuss the current UN system, its mechanisms, the legal and normative developments seeking to foster human rights globally and domestically. 

• LX5657 - Governance, Regulation and Compliance

  This module will introduce you to the foundations of compliance in a financial institution and financial department of a corporation, while also providing a comprehensive inspection of governance and regulatory risk approaches.

• LX5673 - Intellectual Property and New Technologies

  The module will address issues born from the interaction of intellectual property and the new technologies: Information Technologies (IT), the digital environment and the Internet, biotechnology. It will cover copyright protection for works belonging to Information Technology, Digital Copyright, Patent protection, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection and Blockchain.

• LX5655 - International Commercial Law

  This module aims to introduce students to the general framework of international commercial law. You'll learn the law of international sale contracts and related matters, including cross-border dispute resolution, transport, and broader social concerns such as labour and corruption.

• LX5684 - International Environmental and Energy Law

  This module explores the global legal frameworks that govern environmental protection and energy transition. You will examine international environmental governance, climate change law, and the growing recognition of human rights in environmental protection including rights of nature.

• LX5608 - International Human Rights and Islamic Law
  The main aim of this module is to introduce you to comparative perspectives on Islamic law and human rights, drawing upon English language scholarship in the field. This exercise, it is intended, would provide an understanding of the Sharia and its compatibility with modern international law in general and human rights law in particular.
• LX5646 - International Intellectual Property Law
  This module will focus on the international developments in Intellectual Property law. You will review the policy implications of the globalisation of intellectual property rights. This will include the study of WIPO treaties and the TRIPs Agreement as well as bilateral and multi-lateral agreements (such as ACTA).
• LX5686 - Internet Law

  The module of Internet Law intends to examine the nature of the Internet and its impact on commerce. It covers subjective legal issues of Internet Law and it analyses relevant international regulatory framework in response to the development of new technologies.

  The module of Internet Law also intends to examine the nature of the Internet-related legal issues and its impact on finding appropriate dispute resolution methods to revolve them effectively. It discusses possible solutions to the contemporary/topical legal issues and provides detailed and critical discussion on both the theoretical and practical aspects of dispute resolutions that are geared to correspond with those contemporary legal issues.

  At the end of the module, students are expected to understand the nature and substantial legal issues of the Internet and the legal challenges it poses on commerce. Students are expected to gain in-depth knowledge as well as develop analytical and problem-solving skills in the field of Internet Law, and demonstrate the ability to carry out and assess independent research on the legal challenges.

• LX5637 - Multiculturalism and Human Rights

  Multiculturalism and Human Rights grapples with the various human rights issues, debates and dilemmas present in multicultural societies.  It introduces students to a range of issues concerning the role of international human rights law in these societies, with a focus on the rights of historically oppressed and/or marginalised groups (women, migrants, minorities, Indigenous Peoples, etc). 

• LX5674 - Patents and Trademarks

  The module aims to provide students with essential knowledge about UK patent and industrial design law in the context of EU and international obligations

• LX5683 - Peace, Security and Global Governance

  This aim of this module is to develop a deep understanding of how international legal norms and institutions have evolved to address war, conflict, systemic injustice and serious human rights violations.

  It includes the historical development of international humanitarian law and international criminal law, and how the existing international structures attempt to regulate both inter-state and intra-state conflict.

• LX5621 - Philosophical Foundations of Intellectual Property
  This module will focus on the theoretical framework and rationale of IP rights.
• LX5664 - Principles of Corporate Law

  This module builds on a general understanding of the foundations of UK corporate law and examines particular topics, in particular corporate governance, protection of minority shareholders and directors’ duties.

• LX5617 - Principles of International Commercial Arbitration
  Providing an understanding of the general principles of international arbitration and a comparison of the main alternative dispute resolution processes – arbitration, mediation and adjudication, this module allows you to critically analyse the use of arbitration to resolve international business and commercial disputes.
• LX5652 - Principles of International Investment Arbitration

  The module will provide an understanding of the principles and practices of international investment arbitration as it exists around the world.  

  It is divided in four elements that inform each other: (i) introduction, (ii) international investment law, (iii) investment arbitration, and (iv) post-award proceedings.

• LX5616 - Privacy and Data Protection
  This module aims to provide you with essential knowledge about the theoretical rationales and policy arguments for both privacy and data protection.
• LX5678 - Regulating Digital Markets and Online Platforms

  This module explores the global regulation of digital markets and online platforms, such as search engines and social networks. It examines the limitations of traditional legal frameworks in addressing the challenges posed by digital technologies and discusses initial regulatory attempts and controversies. Students will study key regulatory initiatives, including the EU's Digital Markets Act, the US's Anti-Discrimination Act, and the UK's Digital Markets Unit. The module prepares students for the growing demand for digital regulation expertise through interactive lectures, guest speakers from various career paths, and practical assessments, equipping them with the skills needed to excel in an international and digitised workforce.

• LX5553 - The Migrant, The State and the Law

  This module will provide students with a critical and theoretical overview of the central features of migration and refugee law and policy and the interaction between the two, as well as examining the formulation, implementation and enforcement of these laws and policies at international level. Students will also study and assess the legal and political processes behind the construction of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the refugee’ as ‘others’ in relation to ‘the state’. Students will evaluate the potential for law to account for the protection of migrants and refugees and to develop a critical understanding of the law as an instrument of exclusion.

• LX5609 - Theory of International Financial Regulation
  This module addresses the function and significance of national and international financial markets; the international legal framework for international financial markets; the role of international financial organisations; and national financial regulation in a global context.
• LX5613 - World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law
  Providing a thorough understanding of the basic rules in the world trading system under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and considering them in their economic, historical and political context. This module allows you to critically analyse the theoretical and political bases of trade liberalisation and the institutional background to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the WTO.