Laws LLM and PGDip modules

Module availability

This list is subject to change but will be confirmed prior to module selection.

Certain combinations of modules may be restricted or required – see the individual module description for more details.

Semester A23

• SOLM003 Regulation of Financial Markets
• SOLM005 International Finance Law
• SOLM007 Banking Law International
• SOLM009 Corporate Finance Law
• SOLM011 Law and Ethics in Business and Finance
• SOLM014 Sovereign Debt Restructuring
• SOLM020 Company Law: Foundational and Constitutional Issues
• SOLM022 Corporate Governance: Foundational and Theoretical
• SOLM025 Animal Law,Welfare and Trade
• SOLM026 Animal Law, Media and Culture
• SOLM028 Transnational Law and Governance Applied
• SOLM029 Chinese Business Law
• SOLM030 Multinational Enterprises: Business and Legal Organisation
• SOLM035 EU Trade Law
• SOLM045 International Commercial Litigation
• SOLM047 Investment Treaty Arbitration: Foundations, Jurisdiction and Procedure
• SOLM054 International Competition Law
• SOLM056 Competition and the State: EU State Aid law
• SOLM070 International Human Rights Law: Law, Practice and Institutions
• SOLM075 International and Comparative Copyright Law
• SOLM078 Licensing Intellectual Property
• SOLM079 Intellectual Property and Fashion: Art and Culture
• SOLM082 International and Comparative Law of Unfair Competition
• SOLM084 Global Intellectual Property Law
• SOLM085 Interactive Entertainment Law
• SOLM086 The Law of Film
• SOLM095 Intellectual Property Law in China
• SOLM103 Law's Relations: Autonomy, Consent and Confidentiality
• SOLM104 Mental Health Law: Capacity to Consent and Best Interests
• SOLM114 Principles of International Criminal Law
• SOLM116 Fundamental Questions in the Law of Treaties
• SOLM118 Principles of Taxation
• SOLM119 International Tax Law
• SOLM122 Taxation of Individuals
• SOLM123 US International Taxation
• SOLM124 UK Tax Law
• SOLM136 Climate Change Law
• SOLM137 Water Law
• SOLM138 General Principles of Insurance Law
• SOLM139 Insurance Regulation
• SOLM142 Charterparties: Law and Practice
• SOLM143 Carriage of Goods
• SOLM147 Wet Shipping Law
• SOLM148 Legal Aspects of Paperless Trade
• SOLM150 Admiralty
• SOLM151 Public International & European Air Transport Law
• SOLM157 International Energy Law and Ethics
• SOLM155 Energy Law Principles
• SOLM158 United States Energy Law, Regulation and Policy
• SOLM161 International and Comparative Petroleum Law and Contracts
• SOLM173 Ethics of Migration and Asylum
• SOLM174 Comparative Immigration Law
• SOLM189 International Investment Law
• SOLM192 WTO Law: Fundamental Principles
• SOLM194 International Economic Law
• SOLM195 International Trade and Investment Law of the EU
• SOLM199 Law of Economic Crime: Proceeds of Crime
• SOLM206 IT Transactions
• SOLM207 Cybercrime: Substantive Offences
• SOLM209 EU Data Protection Law
• SOLM212 Illegal Speech, Censorship and Digital Rights: Social Media vs “Old” Media
• SOLM214 Telecommunications Policy, Law and Regulation
• SOLM215 European and International Telecommunications Law & Regulation
• SOLM219 E-commerce Transactions
• SOLM220 E-Commerce Regulation
• SOLM224 Compliance Systems in Practice
• SOLM242 EU Immigration law
• SOLM243 Trade, Climate change and Energy EU and International Perspectives
• SOLM248 EU Competition Law
• SOLM249 International Merger Control: The Jurisdictions
• SOLM251 Exploitation of Energy Resources in Disputed Areas
• SOLM252 Energy Decommissioning and Waste Management in International Law
• SOLM259 Law and Economics of Regulation and Compliance
• SOLM254 International Natural Resources Law
• SOLM256 International Commercial Arbitration
• SOLM260 Corporate Violence
• SOLM262 Climate Justice
• SOLM263 International Economic Law Clinic
• SOLM270 International Child Law
• SOLM272 Cultural Diversity and Law
• SOLM288 Common Law from Theory to Practice
• SOLM292 European Law of Patents

Semester B23

• SOLM001 Securities Regulation
• SOLM006 International Finance Law Applied
• SOLM008 Banking and FinTech Law
• SOLM010 Mergers and Acquisitions
• SOLM017 Corporate Rescue and Cross-border Insolvency
• SOLM018 Principles of Regulation
• SOLM019 International Commercial Law
• SOLM021 Company Law: Corporate Finance and Management Issues
• SOLM023 Corporate Governance: Operation and Practice
• SOLM024 Comparative Contract Law
• SOLM027 Transnational Law and Governance in Practice
• SOLM036 Transnational Problems in Commercial Contracts
• SOLM038 Strategic Decision Making for Lawyers
• SOLM039 Negotiation Theory and Practice
• SOLM040 Alternative Dispute Resolution: Theory and Context
• SOLM042 International Construction Contracts and Dispute Resolution
• SOLM044 International Arbitration Law and Practice: Applicable Laws and Procedures
• SOLM046 Commercial Conflict of Laws
• SOLM048 Investment Treaty Arbitration: Agreements and Substantive Protection
• SOLM051 EU Competition Law and Practice
• SOLM053 International Merger Control: Special Topics
• SOLM057 Cartels, Collusion and Competition Law
• SOLM064 Human Rights of Women: Legal Framework and Issues
• SOLM065 International and Comparative Social Rights
• SOLM077 International Law of Patents and Related Rights
• SOLM080 Intellectual Property and Fashion: Business and Law
• SOLM081 Design and Intellectual Property: EU and United States
• SOLM082 International and Comparative Law of Unfair Competition
• SOLM083 The Law of Registered Trade Marks
• SOLM087 The Business of Film
• SOLM088 Law of Geographical Indications
• SOLM090 Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries
• SOLM092 Commercialisation of IP
• SOLM093 Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences
• SOLM094 Competition Law, Intellectual Property and Innovation
• SOLM106 Competition and Regulation in EU Healthcare Markets
• SOLM107 Law's Bodies: Donation, Reproduction and Dying
• SOLM113 Conduct of Hostilities in International Law
• SOLM115 Enforcement of International Criminal Law
• SOLM117 Special Areas in the Law of Treaties
• SOLM120 International Tax Law in Practice
• SOLM121 Tax System Design and Policy in Emerging and Developing Economies
• SOLM129 Transfer Pricing
• SOLM131 International Law of the Sea
• SOLM134 International Environmental Law
• SOLM144 Marine Insurance Law
• SOLM148 Legal Aspects of Paperless Trade
• SOLM150 Admiralty
• SOLM151 Public International & European Air Transport Law
• SOLM152 Private International & European Air Transport Law
• SOLM154 Maritime Conflict of Laws
• SOLM163 International Arbitration and Energy
• SOLM167 Renewable Energy Law
• SOLM171 International Refugee Law
• SOLM175 Terrorism, Migration and Human Rights
• SOLM179 Common Law Reasoning
• SOLM190 Foreign Investments and Public Policy
• SOLM193 WTO Law Domestic Regulations and Trade Remedies
• SOLM200 Law of Economic Crime: Corruption
• SOLM201 Punishment in England 1750-1950
• SOLM208 Cybercrime: Forensic Investigations
• SOLM210 Information Security and the Law
• SOLM211 Cyberspace: Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution
• SOLM213 Entrepreneurship Law Clinic
• SOLM216 Media Law: Reputation Management
• SOLM220 E-Commerce Regulation
• SOLM222 International and Comparative Data Protection Law
• SOLM223 Compliance in Global Markets
• SOLM237 Law and Finance in Practice
• SOLM240 Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights and Migration
• SOLM245 EU Financial and Monetary Law
• SOLM246 International Financial Regulation
• SOLM255 Reinsurance Law and International Risk Transfer
• SOLM261 State Crime
• SOLM265 Media Regulation
• SOLM266 Research Seminar
• SOLM267 Trade, Environment and IPRS
• SOLM278 Energy and Climate Change
• SOLM280 IP Protection in the Software Sector
• SOLM281 Researching Powerful Organisations
• SOLM282 Human Rights and Public Health
• SOLM283 Minority and Group Rights: International and Comparative Perspectives
• SOLM284 Seminar on AI Regulation, Rights and Responsibilities
• SOLM286 Tax Administration and Procedure
• SOLM287 The EU and international law: EU external economic relations
• SOLM289 Law is Plural: comparative law, legal pluralism, decoloniality
• SOLM290 Comparative Competition Law
• SOLM291 International Law of Patents
• SOLM297 Competition Law in the Digital Era

Semester C22

• SOLM058 Economics of Competition Law
• SOLM059 Competition Enforcement: From Investigation to Sanctions
• SOLM089 Music Industry Contracts
• SOLM097 Digital Intellectual Property
• SOLM126 UK Tax Avoidance
• SOLM127 EU Tax Law
• SOLM130 Tax and Technology
• SOLM165 Current Issues in International Energy Regulation
• SOLM168 Nuclear Energy Law
• SOLM221 AI, Robotics and the Law
• SOLM234 Accounting for Lawyers
• SOLM235 Derivatives in a Legal Context
• SOLM236 Risk Management in Law
• SOLM243 Trade, Climate Change and Energy EU and International Perspectives
• SOLM267 Trade, Environment and IPRS
• SOLM273 Legal Tech
• SOLM274 Public Affairs Advocacy
• SOLM276 Advocacy in Commercial Disputes
• SOLM285 Data Protection Law and Compliance
• SOLM295 International Sports Arbitration
• SOLM296 Outer Space Law

Not running in 2023-24

• SOLM012 Corporate Governance and Responsibility in Finance
• SOLM013 Bank Insolvency and Resolution
• SOLM015 Elements of Islamic Law
• SOLM016 Islamic Finance and Commercial Law
• SOLM031 Multinational Enterprises: Social Issues
• SOLM033 US Federal Law Constitutional Law: Select Issues
• SOLM034 US State Law and Practice
• SOLM041 Alternative Dispute Resolution: Selected Issues
• SOLM055 Comparative Competition Law
• SOLM060 Competition Law in the Cyberspace
• SOLM062 EU Human Rights Law
• SOLM063 Human Rights of Women: Feminist Legal Theory
• SOLM066 Social Rights
• SOLM069 International Human Rights Law: History, Theory and Politics
• SOLM071 Terrorism & Human Rights: Constitutional Perspectives
• SOLM072 International Law and Indigenous People
• SOLM074 Secession and Self-Determination in International Law
• SOLM076 European and US Law of Patents
• SOLM077 International Law of Patents and Related Rights
• SOLM096 Trade Secrets
• SOLM098 Law and Practice of the Unified Patent Court
• SOLM099 Introduction to Medical Law
• SOLM100 Regulating Health Professions
• SOLM101 Introduction to Bioethics
• SOLM102 New Medical Technologies: Medical Research and Product Regulation
• SOLM105 EU Healthcare Law: Rights, Policies and Instruments
• SOLM108 Advanced Medical Negligence
• SOLM109 New Medical Technologies: Emerging Technologies
• SOLM110 Mental Health Law: Compulsory Detention and Treatment
• SOLM111 Regulating Health Systems
• SOLM112 Use of Force in International Law
• SOLM125 UK Business Taxation
• SOLM128 Indirect Taxation
• SOLM133 Concepts in Natural Resources Law: Biodiversity, Human Rights and Trade
• SOLM135 EU Environmental law
• SOLM137 Water Law
• SOLM140 Insurance Contracts
• SOLM145 Maritime Arbitration
• SOLM146 International Regulation of Shipping
• SOLM149 Law of the Sea: Navigational Freedoms and Practice
• SOLM153 Protection and Indemnity (P&I) Clubs
• SOLM156 Energy Economics Legal Perspective
• SOLM162 International Energy Transactions
• SOLM164 EU Energy Law
• SOLM166 Mining and Natural Resources Law
• SOLM167 Renewable Energy Law
• SOLM176 Free Movement of Persons in the European Union
• SOLM177 Migration and Asylum Law through Practice
• SOLM180 Visual Jurisprudence
• SOLM181 Critical Jurisprudence
• SOLM182 Law in Asia
• SOLM183 Historical Jurisprudence
• SOLM184 Sociological Jurisprudence
• SOLM185 Law and Religion
• SOLM186 Comparative Law Methodology
• SOLM187 Law and Authority in a Global Context
• SOLM191 Legal Aspects of Financing Development
• SOLM195 International Trade and Investment Law of the EU
• SOLM202 Policing in Local and Global Contexts
• SOLM203 Comparative Criminal Justice
• SOLM204 Criminal Justice and Surveillance Technologies
• SOLM205 EU Criminal Law
• SOLM214 Telecommunications Policy, Law and Regulation
• SOLM220 E-Commerce Regulation
• SOLM231 Business and Commercial Law Issues for Managers
• SOLM232 Law and Management in Practice
• SOLM233 US Federal Law: Select Advocacy Issues
• SOLM239 Interactive Entertainment Transactions
• SOLM241 Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes
• SOLM244 Globalisation and the Law
• SOLM245 EU Financial and Monetary Law
• SOLM247 Comparative Corporate Law
• SOLM250 Advocacy and Mooting (Aviation or Shipping)
• SOLM253 Seafarers Law
• SOLM254 International Natural Resources Law
• SOLM257 Law and Civil Disobedience
• SOLM264 International Migration Law
• SOLM268 Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law
• SOLM271 Children, Law and Society
• SOLM272 Cultural Diversity and Law
• SOLM275 Taxation and Trade
• SOLM277 Comparative Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
• SOLM279 Climate Change Law, Economics and Policy