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King's College London, University of London: International Financial and Commercial Law LLM

Institution King's College London, University of London
Department The Dickson Poon School of Law View department profile
Web https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/courses/master-of-laws-llm
Telephone +44 (0) 20 7123 4843
Study type Taught

Summary

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Develop your global legal career with an online LLM from The Dickson Poon School of Law, one of the world’s leading law schools. The International Financial and Commercial Law LLM programme will provide students with an in-depth understanding, and expertise in a number of key areas of financial and commercial law, as well as with skills and analytical tools to enable them to apply, analyse and think critically.

Today, the world of commerce and finance is dominated by global trading and the free flow of capital and investments. Legal practice is constantly evolving and adapting to new products, new markets and new technologies. Financial innovation flourishes within a constantly expanding framework of financial regulation, resulting in the emergence of new market actors, new financial products and new trading techniques.

In order to conceptually capture these phenomena, we need to apply our traditional legal techniques in innovative ways and often invent new legal mechanism that better fit our global economic reality. This requires lawyers to draw on a multitude of legal sources – domestic, international and transnational – as well as the utilization of an interdisciplinary approach to law, based on the insights of finance and economics.

This law masters of law degree is taught 100% online, meaning that you can advance your education without taking a break from work, and you can fit your studies around your life commitments. You can benefit from the world-renowned teaching of King’s College London wherever you are in the world.

The course is designed for students who wish to pursue a career within financial or commercial law, and would be ideal for lawyers who wish to enhance their understanding of the world of commerce and finance, which is dominated by global trading and the free flow of capital and investments. It would also be of interest to people working in finance and business whose role has a legal focus.

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Dickson Poon School of Law LLM

LLM top facts – King’s College London Dickson Poon School of Law

LLM tuition fees: Home students £20,220, International students £31,980
LLM application fees: £120
LLM deposit: Home students £500, International students £2,000 (credited towards total fees)
Eligibility criteria: undergraduate degree in law (2.1) or minimum three years' legal work experience
Minimum IELTS: 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each skill
Minimum TOEFL: 100 overall (minimum scores Reading 23; Writing 25; Listening 23; Speaking 23)
Course start date: September
Course duration: one year full-time study

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