Program Overview

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Learn to think globally, tackling the complex and ever-changing regulation of businesses in the UK, Europe, and across the world. Our LLM International Commercial and Business Law is a specialist course covering contemporary developments and debates related to the traditional and emerging forms of legal governance of domestic, European and international commercial and consumer markets. You will improve your knowledge of the key theoretical and practical issues in this field; as well as your skills of analysis, evaluation and problem solving. The course covers the ways in which good corporate governance and competitive markets are promoted, as well as how legal and soft law rules and codes regulate:

• Goods and services
• Internet activities
• Data protection
• Consumer protection
• The environment

At Essex we specialise in commercial law, public law, and human rights law. We are 3rd in the UK for research power in law (THE research power measure, REF2021) and we are ranked 47th for Law in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023. Our law course will develop your intellectual and critical faculties, encourage you to think independently and teach you to present rational, coherent and accurate arguments orally and in writing. It will provide you with an excellent foundation for any career. Why we're great.

• Investigate the fast-paced regulation of businesses in the UK, Europe and across the world
• Challenge convention and debate governance of commercial and consumer markets
• Develop the critical, analytical and research skills needed for an international law career

Our expert staff

Our internationally diverse community of staff and students gives us a breadth of cross-cultural perspectives and insights into law and justice around the world. This community, combined with opportunities to study abroad during your time with us, ensures you graduate with a genuine worldview and a network of international contacts.

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Specialist facilities

• Volunteer at the Essex Law Clinic where you can work alongside practicing solicitors to offer legal advice to clients
• Gain commercial awareness at our Business and Legal Advice Clinic
• Work on key human rights projects at our Human Rights Clinic
• Participate in mooting competitions to develop your skills, particularly important if you hope to become a barrister
• Test your mediation and negotiation skills in our Client Interviewing Competition (sponsored by Birkett Long Solicitors)
• Join our Model United Nations society, which can improve your skills of argumentation, oral presentation and research
• Network at our student-run Law Society , Human Rights Society , and Bar Society , which provides legal advice to the Commonwealth Students’ Association (CSA)
• Take advantage of networking opportunities throughout the year with visiting law firms

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Your future

Essex Law School graduates have gone on to a wide variety of careers in international and intergovernmental organisations or employment with governments across the world, in commerce and banking, in non-governmental organisations and, as might be expected, in the legal profession and the judiciary. During the year, we hold a careers session for our students in which we reflect upon our own careers and how they have been built as well as those from former students. We are always available to discuss career options and if you are interested in a particular area of the law, we can link you up with the relevant alumni to offer advice. We also work with the university’s Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.