LLM in Commercial Law

The Commercial Law programme offers students an opportunity to engage in intensive study of specialist commercial and industrial topics. Students may wish to concentrate upon European commercial issues, international trade, or aspects of domestic commerce.


Requirements for the LLM in Commercial Law

To obtain an LLM by Advanced Study in Commercial Law, students must both:

  1. submit a 12,000 word dissertation in the field of Commercial Law and
  2. take either four Commercial Law core units or three Commercial Law core units plus one other LLM unit.

Students without an English law degree who are taking the LLM in Commercial Law are advised to select one of the following Foundational Law units as one of their four units: Law of Contract, Law of Tort, or Law of Personal Property and Trusts.

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Commercial Law Core Units

The Commercial Law core units are as follows:

A small number of the units (marked '(weekend taught)') are only taught at weekends on the weekend-taught Flexible Masters (Advanced Awards) programme. Those units are available to full-time LLM by Advanced Study students.

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