Prospective Students

International Commercial Law (LLM)

Course Aims:

To offer knowledge and expertise for a career with enhanced opportunities for legal or business practice as a result of commercial law specialism.

Course Description:

Commercial law in a fast-moving globalised economy poses both challenges and opportunities. Expert lawyers are needed to meet the challenges as well as to make the most of the opportunities. The challenge posed by the development of new forms of commercial property and types of services make it imperative that those advising business are in a position to weigh up the available options when giving advice that can have considerable financial consequences.

Our LLM will help you achieve the necessary high level of expertise to succeed in the commercial world. It is designed to meet the needs of students and lawyers who wish to study commercial law from an international perspective with emphasis placed on international conventions and agreements and their practical application.

The International Commercial Law modules provide the opportunity to study topics in depth and conduct research in areas of commercial law of particular interest to you.

Students must complete four modules (one assessment for each module comprising of a 5,000 word essay or examination) and a dissertation (not exceeding 15,000 words). Students must study two modules from the selection of International Commercial Law modules. Their other modules may be drawn from the modules listed in any other route or from a combination of routes, including modules offered by another School in the University. For more information please see our website.

Depending on the route and the particular module, teaching methods comprise a mix of lectures and seminars, individual and joint written and oral presentations and distance learning. All modules are supported by extensive IT provision available on and off campus. Modules are typically led by staff actively engaged in research relevant to their subject matter.

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Special Features:

• Choice from an extensive range of modules dealing with current international commercial practice.
• One of Cardiff’s longest established and most popular LLM routes.

Entry Requirements:

This course is suitable for graduates in Law wishing to study commercial law at an advanced level and in its international context. The course is suitable for UK and overseas students, and for practitioners.

Applicants should have a good Honours degree in Law (2:2 or equivalent), although other appropriate qualifications will be considered. Those whose first language is not English must obtain a score of at least 6.5 in IELTS (with no less than 6.0 in any element) or 580 (paper-based), 237 (computer-based), 90 (internet-based) in TOEFL or equivalent.

Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to pass either IELTS/TOEFL exams, for which the minimum requirement is IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 575.

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