Course summary
The LLM International Business Law is designed to give you the opportunity to explore in detail various aspects of the international legal framework which regulates transnational and international business activities, including both commercial and corporate matters. The course aims to provide you with in-depth, critical and comparative insights into not only the key areas of law relevant to international business operations but also of procedural issues, including the dispute resolution systems available to businesses. In addition to focusing on specific areas of law relevant to international business law, the course offers you a contextual and comparative understanding of the relevant legal rules and policies and their operation in practice. You will have the opportunity to consider not only the legislative environment of specific jurisdictions and institutions but also their interactions and the impact that these have on efficiency, attractiveness and challenges of conducting business in a highly globalised world. The foundational unit on international trade law provides you with a solid foundation in commercial law, with a focus on both interstate trade and trade between businesses, while units such as Intellectual Property Law, International Commercial Litigation, and International Commercial Arbitration allow you to gain more focused knowledge and understanding of specific areas of substantive law and procedures for settling commercial disputes. The unit on International Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility examines the general corporate aspects of international business law while also focusing on the contemporary issues of social responsibility, climate change and sustainability. The course prepares you for a career in the challenging and exciting field of international business law. It will provide you with the opportunity to develop contextual skills of legal reasoning, analysis and advanced legal research skills, including the proficient use of all leading legal databases. The course will also develop your ability to exercise independent critical judgement, and to apply legal theories and norms to a range of scenarios in order to conduct an effective evaluation of the available legal options.
Modules
• International Trade Law • International Commercial Arbitration • International Commercial Litigation • International Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility • Intellectual Property Law • LLM Dissertation Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.
Assessment method
The course is designed to enable you to build on the knowledge and skills you gained during your undergraduate studies and to develop greater autonomy of learning, independent analysis and critical evaluation. Learning activities and assessment tasks are designed to foster the incremental development of your subject knowledge and transferable skills while supporting your personal and professional development. In-class learning activities are structured around lectures, seminars and workshops. Although the nature and format of the activities will vary from unit to unit, interactive learning and practice-based activities are key to all units. Alongside in-class activities, you will also be expected to engage in a range of online learning activities including virtual workshops and seminars delivered by guest speakers; training sessions for legal databases such as Lexis Nexis, Westlaw; discussion forums; and group and individual e-journals. Throughout the course, different types of assessments enable you to demonstrate both breadth and depth of subject knowledge and contextual understanding while developing your academic and professional skills. Assessment methods you will encounter over the course of your LLM studies include: written report or research essay; case study reports; oral presentations; mooting; and your final dissertation where you produce an independent piece of written work, supported by high-quality legal research. Notions of accountability and academic integrity play an integral role in the course. Starting form the initial induction, you will be given extensive training on the principles of academic integrity; how to avoid plagiarism; referencing legal sources; and correctly acknowledging other people's work and ideas. Specific training on the use of AI tools in an academic and professional context, with a particular focus on legal practice, will also be provided. In the context of individual projects and coursework, students are expected to be able to show evidence of the different stages of preparation of the final submission, and to present and discuss their work in its entirety upon completion.
Entry requirements
LLB or Joint Law degree with a minimum classification of a 2.1, or in the case of degree holders in disciplines other than Law with sufficient and adequate legal content on the basis of merit, or applicants with foreign qualifications on the basis of individual merit. Applicants with English as their second language must show proof of competency in speaking and writing English to IELTS 6.5 band or above or its equivalent. For all other elements, the requisite level of competency for which, again, proof must be shown is: IELTS 6.0 band or above or its equivalent.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
For information on the 2025 fees and scholarships please refer to our website, https://www.beds.ac.uk/howtoapply/money/fees/
Sponsorship information
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Provider information
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
LU1 3JU