Business and Financial Law LLM

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Overview

Course options

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Degree

  • LLM Business and Financial Law, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 12000 per year
  • LLM Business and Financial Law, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time, 2 years
    • Pound 2000 per 30 credit module
  • LLM Business and Financial Law, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 1 year
    • Pound 15960 per year
    International applications are closed for 2024

Degree with Placement Year

  • LLM Business and Financial Law, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 12000 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500
    International applications are closed for 2024
  • LLM Business and Financial Law, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time, 2 years
    • Pound 15960 per year. Year 2 Industrial Placement Fee - £3,500

What makes this course different

A sought-after specialism

A flexible course structure allows you to study the legal topics that interest you, while gaining core specialist knowledge in financial and business law – a highly sought-after specialism

99% internationally recognised research

Learn from area specialists, in a law department with 99% of its research rated as 'international quality' (REF 2014)

Evening classes

Your 6 contact hours a week are evening classes (6 – 9pm), providing flexibility to fit in with your lifestyle

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

Your future career

This pathway gives you the necessary legal, financial, and business training to develop highly sought-after specialist knowledge, as well as fantastic networking opportunities and the chance to work on real problems in the field.

The course allows you to undertake a work-based project so you can gain practical experience and build professional links, while our renowned Legal Advice Centre enables you to work on real legal cases with local people to enhance your clinical skills.

Professionals in banking, finance, corporate governance, and trade will benefit greatly from the specialist training offered in this programme, and it's also an ideal course for law and business graduates who wish to work in the field of financial and business law.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

This pathway gives you a deep understanding of contemporary legal issues in international business and finance, while still offering the chance to tailor your learning with a broad range of optional LLM modules.

You'll study core topics in International Law and Business and the Regulation of Financial Markets, forming a clear picture of the fundamental legal framework that governs international businesses and trading. You then have the chance to choose two modules from a range of options that include topics like International Banking Law, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights, and The Law of the World Trade Organisation. These options allow you to complement your core training with specific teaching on the topics that suit your interests or professional needs.

Our staff are experts in these fields, with the professional experience and academic expertise to give you a rigorous, contemporary understanding that's ready for the workplace.

As well as choosing your optional modules, you can opt to either write a postgraduate dissertation or carry out a work-based project. Both of these options allow you to carry out independent study on a topic of your choice, developing your practical legal skills while honing your knowledge of a specific legal issue.

The programme also offers an optional placement year, following your first year. Placements will be provided and supported by the London-based NGO, Pro Bono Communities, where you'll gain valuable experience in handling issues relating to aspects of social welfare law. Training and supervision will be provided by Pro Bono Communities and a module leader at UEL will oversee the relationship and assess student performance.

We consistently review and develop our courses and modules to ensure they are up-to-date with sector and industry graduate skills demands. Course structure, modules, and options are subject to change.

How you'll learn

All our LLM courses are taught through a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops. We extensively use problem-based learning, class discussion and case studies to ensure our teaching is brought to life, while all our lectures are issued as podcasts to give you greater access to learning resources and allow you to revisit specific classes.

These involve presentations from prominent experts in the field of human rights in conflict. This year's speakers included Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector of the Central European University and Former Leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, David Malone, Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Other recent speakers at UEL have included Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and the high-profile human rights lawyer (and UEL law graduate) Imran Khan.

If you go for the placement option, your degree will take an extra year as you will be placed in a workplace for 10 months. Placement is not available to part-time students. Students wanting to do the Placement year must indicate so upon application.

How you will be assessed

All modules are research-based, involving coursework. You will take four modules of 30 credits each for which you will submit coursework of approximately 7,000 words at the end of the term. The LLM dissertation, accounting for 60 credits, involves a 15,000-word essay. Full-time students normally complete the 180 credits requirements in one academic year while part-time students complete the same in two years.

The work placement module for the additional second year is 120 Placement Credits but will not bear academic credits. The module will be taken by students after completion of their dissertation module and will be assessed on a pass/fail basis. The criteria for progression to the work placement module is the successful completion of the LLM taught modules (i.e. with a minimum of 50% pass mark). The University will work in close partnership with the students to help them secure work placements.

Campus and facilities

University Square Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by the Royal Docks School of Business and Law

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.