Develop your commercial legal expertise and enhance your job prospects with our LLM in International Business.
Our LLM in International Business is designed to offer you a deep and critical understanding of the complex issues, rules, and regulations relevant to multi and transnational business operations.
You will access cutting-edge research, exposing you to the contemporary issues that affect the law in this area. To personalise your studies, you can choose to focus on an area of law that interests you, with one of our four specially designed pathways.
From finance or IT to Entrepreneurship or HR, our pathways give you the choice to delve deeper into your passion and excel in your chosen Business Management career.
Whether you're a law graduate or looking to develop your understanding of the law from other fields (such as accounting, business, commercial enterprise, economics, finance, human resources, and marketing) our LLM in International Business is recognised internationally and is delivered both in the UK and at centres overseas.
Applicants are required to have at least one of the following:
A UK Honours Degree (or the equivalent of a UK Honours Degree) in a subject appropriate to the LLM.
OR
A postgraduate qualification.
OR
Appropriate Professional qualifications or experience.
If you are unsure whether your current qualifications or experience are relevant, please contact the Programme Director for an informal discussion.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.
The programme aims to equip individuals with the fundamentals of international business, through development of legal knowledge and skills, which will enable them to operate efficiently and lawfully as managers, entrepreneurs and specialist practitioners.
It provides disciplined legal context to individual’s business knowledge and experience in meeting the demands placed upon them in a highly competitive global commercial environment. The programme therefore opens a broad range of enhanced employment opportunities in business, management and administration across private and public sectors, including NGOs and international organisations. Specifically LLM in International Business has proven to be a value-added qualification for business graduates who wishes to enter employment where regulatory compliance is needed in the areas of HR, marketing, legal, finance related businesses such as insurers and reinsurers, export/import and other supply chain organisations involved with international trade.
Previous graduates have entered multinational corporations as managers and administrators and indeed a few that were legally qualified before undertaking this programme have been able to enter into commercial chancery litigation and advisory practice areas.
Compulsory modules (140 credits):
Alongside the compulsory modules, you can select two specialist optional modules to tailor your studies towards your interests (please note, optional units are subject to availability and student numbers).
LLM International Business (Finance)*
LLM International Business (Information Technology and Intellectual Property)*
LLM International Business (Entrepreneurship)*
LLM International Business (Employment and Human Resource Management)*
Options/ Pathway modules (40 credits):
LLM International Business (Finance Pathway):
LLM International Business Information Technology and Intellectual Property Pathway*:
LLM International Business Entrepreneurship Pathway*:
LLM International Business Employment and Human Resource Pathway*:
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