Business Law: Choose your Award

• Duration: 9 months
• Start dates: 21st October 2024
• Modules: 1 to 3
• The PGCert requires the successful completion of 60 credits

• Duration: 18 months
• Start dates: 21st October 2024
• Modules: 1 to 7
• The PGDip requires the successful completion of 120 credits

• Duration: 26 months
• Start dates: 21st October 2024
• Modules: all 8 modules
• The LLM requires the successful completion of 180 credits

By completing the masters of business law program, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a critical awareness of the impact and influence policy has and continues to have on professional practice within international business and law.

• Apply major theories and concepts to your studies.

• Reflect on your critical appreciation and apply knowledge to practise in the areas of international business law, including dispute resolution, company law, intellectual property, EU competition, and private international law.

• Demonstrate the skills necessary to plan, conduct and report on a research project by independently engaging with the subject literature and theory, analysing and assessing them to support critical and normative judgments and developing a structured argument.

• Identify a range of research strategies and methods, and reflexively assess the merits of each.

• Understand and show sensitivity to diversity issues and competing interests to identify and take account of normative and moral positions within international business law.

• Recognise the relevance of studying international business law.

• Use ICT to identify, access and select effective information-collection methods and use the most appropriate analytical tools, including the application of numerical skills, to cases involving a quantitative dimension.

• Articulate arguments and conclusions based on evidence subject to a well-developed critical appraisal and imaginative judgement.

The following general assessment guidelines apply:

• To successfully complete the course, you must pass each module.

• The course is assessed entirely by coursework, which will be submitted online.

• Module assessments will incorporate a variety of summative and formative submissions including reports, essays, presentations, and research assignments.

• You are expected to participate in the virtual learning environment and interact with tutors and fellow students.

• There will be no examinations requiring attendance at a venue.