LL.M in International Legal Practice
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College officials are gearing up for a marketing drive to promote the LLM in North America and Southeast Asia – with prospective Canadian law students especially in their crosshairs
The global marketplace in post- graduate degrees is increasingly competitive - and College of Law officials are tackling the challenge head on with a vigorous global road show promoting the innovative nature of its LLM.
The college is focussing this year on the two international common law legal hubs of North America and South-east Asia. Senior managers will be heading first to Hong Kong, with Canada, Malaysia and Singapore also on the tour list before the end of 2012.
Canada represents fertile ground for the LLM as when combined with its LLB it offers law students from that country an almost unique opportunity.
LLM Bonus Canadian students who complete the
college’s accelerated two-year LLB can extend their stay in London by a year to do the one-year full-time LLM. When they return to Canada they will only be required to do a short burst of additional tests - called ‘challenged exams’ - before being able to sit their individual provincial bar exams to qualify.
That means those students qualify as lawyers almost as quickly as they would do if they had stayed at home, and they have the bonus of having a highly desirable LLM under their belts - in addition to the experience of living overseas.
Canadian LLB degrees take three years to complete with no benefit of an LLM on top. Also, if Canadian students came to London just to do the LLB and then return, they will have to sit a far more extended and complex series of challenged exams.
Global Firm Interest
Adding to the attraction of having such a heavy dose of English legal education for prospective Canadian lawyers is the increasing interest that London-based global law firms are taking in that jurisdiction.
That point was highlighted at beginning of this year when global
player Norton Rose merged with leading Canadian law firm Macleod Dixon. Since that deal was struck, the firm has named as its first non- English chairman Canadian partner Norman Steinberg. While the college sees plenty of scope for marketing its LLM in Canada, moving south to take a slice of the huge US market remains elusive for the time being. However, there are plenty of international opportunities remaining, not least in the Far East.
A senior staffer is headed to Hong Kong at the end of July to promote the course at one of the region’s leading events for graduate and post-graduate students. He will then head later in the year to Malaysia and Singapore.
Liberalised Legislation
College officials are confident that the LLM appeals in those jurisdictions because they are international legal hubs with, yet again, much English and US law firm interest. Indeed, only a few days ago, Malaysia’s Legal Profession Bill was tabled in parliament for a second reading, taking the country a step closer to a more liberalised regime that will allow foreign firms a foothold in the local market.
Singapore is already a relatively open playing field for global firms. At the beginning of May, leading Netherlands law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek said it expected to open an office shortly in the city-state, while earlier this year US firm Squire Sanders received a licence following similar moves by London firms LG and Withers.
Europe is also on the college’s LLM marketing hit list. Officials maintain that Germany remains a potentially fruitful market as there is already
strong evidence that German
graduate students are keen to do masters courses in the UK. Black-Letter of the Law
While the IBA-College of Law LLM provides students with crucial skills in modern lawyering, its core purpose is to give graduates a crucial technical specialism in cross- border commercial law
Designed in conjunction with the International Bar Association, this LL.M is a tailored, professional programme for graduates and practising lawyers seeking career-enhancing postgraduate legal qualifi cations. The programme is aimed specifi cally at building cross- border commercial legal knowledge.
The benefi ts of the LL.M in International Legal Practice You choose what to study
Commercial lawyers can no longer afford to be tied to their home jurisdictions’ apron strings – they must take on the global village by expanding their awareness of cross-border legal issues.
• Tailor what you study to your career path and/or practice area
• All modules are practice-led with contributions from leading global law fi rms
That potentially career-saving advice comes from the top levels of the administration of the joint International Bar Association-College of Law LLM in International Legal Practice. The organisers stress that nuts-and-bolts black-letter law is at the heart of the LLM course, which is geared to give graduates a competitive edge in the increasingly global practice of commercial law.
S-mode modules
‘If you are an international lawyer or a lawyer at a large commercial law firm, you can’t simply say: “I just do English law.” It just doesn’t work like that anymore,’ warns Martin Smith, the college’s head of business development.
Technical Study
Course administrators point out that the five-year old LLM provides students with a fine-tuned specialisation in cross-border law, with the recently launched full-time course being even more steeped in technical study.
You choose how to study • Study your LL.M at a time and place that suits you Full-time LL.M in London
• Starts in September 2013 at our London Moorgate centre • Three workshops per week – 2.5 hours each • Supported by i-Tutorials, online test and feedback exercises and independent learning and research
• Start in January or July each year • Online study with one-to-one online supervision from a College tutor • Nine units per module
• We supply an extensive suite of user-friendly, practical course material including electronic learning aids
You choose your pace of learning
• Modular course design enables you to determine your own pace of learning
• S-mode modules start in January and July each year
the modules all examine the law from a UK perspective, they also focus substantially on other major jurisdictions. For example, the M&A module concentrates significantly on the US jurisdictions, while the competition module has a heavy dose of EU and US law. Indeed, the competition module is especially illustrative of this approach. It focuses heavily on areas such as articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU and also on major US legislation such as the Sherman Anti-trust Act, which, while more than 100 years old, is still highly relevant to all businesses doing cross-border deals in America.
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Merger Regimes
Its six modules – business, finance and the legal services market, international intellectual property, international competition and anti-trust, international mergers and acquisitions, international joint ventures, and international arbitration practice – all lean strongly towards the study of cross-border issues. Which means that while
The M&A field is another example of the international black-letter law focus of the LLM. As Mr Smith explains, these days only the smallest mergers do not involve cross-border issues. ‘The chances are that if they are of a certain size,’ he says, ‘there is a high probability that those mergers will have to be cleared by the relevant authorities in numerous jurisdictions – the US, Europe, China, just to name the most obvious. So
But the LLM’s competition module doesn’t simply focus on the two huge jurisdictions of the EU and US – it also delves into regulatory issues in Australia and South Africa.
the LLM provides a strong and invaluable grounding in how those regimes work, for example, around the highly complex threshold rules in each jurisdiction, which are especially difficult in the European context.’
For Mr Smith, the issue is not one of multiple qualifications, but of gaining a sufficient multi-jurisdictional grounding so that lawyers can make educated and informed decisions.
‘Today’s commercial lawyers don’t all need to be specialists in cross-border fields,’ he says. ‘For example an EU competition lawyer needn’t also be a specialist in American anti-trust law. But that lawyer needs to know the issues sufficiently well so he can contact an American specialist. An English lawyer won’t be qualified to advise on the intricacies of the US anti-trust law, but the LLM will have put that person in a position where he can recognise the issues and then go to the right US expert.
‘Historically, lawyers had some depth of knowledge of different subjects, now they need a great deal of depth in a narrow subject area but in a wider number of jurisdictions.’
And a wider breadth of knowledge is exactly what the course administrators maintain is what students will receive from the full-time, face-to-face
Module
Global Professional Training with the International Bar Association and the College of Law – the practical route to enhance your career.
Our London campus
As a global commercial and fi nancial centre and home to many of the world’s leading international law fi rms, London is the ideal location to gain your LL.M in International Legal Practice.
Located in the heart of the City of London fi nancial district, close to leading global law fi rms, our Moorgate campus is the largest specialist corporate law school in the UK. It offers top-class facilities in a purpose-built, corporate-style building.
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Business, fi nance and the legal services market January 2013 International intellectual property practice International commercial legal practice International public companies practice
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International capital markets and loans practice January 2013 International mergers and acquisitions practice January 2013 International antitrust practice
International business organisations International arbitration practice International joint ventures
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Further afi eld
The capital’s public transport network of buses and trains – overground and underground – give access to all parts of Greater London. Alternatively, you can use one of the regional transport hubs to go anywhere in the UK. The Eurostar train station at St Pancras provides a link with continental Europe and London is served by Heathrow and Gatwick international airports.
International student support
To make sure your move to and study in the UK goes as smoothly as possible, we provide a wide range of student support services. We can advise you on everything from opening a UK bank account to applying for a visa.
Accommodation
We can arrange accommodation options for our international students with some of the UK’s leading student accommodation providers, to ensure you have a safe, comfortable place to live while you’re studying at The College of Law. By staying in College-nominated accommodation, you’ll get to meet students studying at universities across London, as well as live with your fellow College students.
On successful completion, you’ll be awarded a fellowship to the International Bar Association, which provides two years
free membership and a free invitation to attend the IBA’s Annual Conference in Boston in 2013, after graduation in recognition of your achievement.
Studying international legal practice with us in the UK can open up new career opportunities, whether with law fi rms of for anyone aspiring to international legal practice around the globe.
Enrol now at
www.college-of-law.co.uk/llm/
‘It has exceeded my expectations…this course in its entirety is the best study experience that I have had.’
‘This is a unique Master degree in being, on the one hand, a genuinely practical professional training, and on the other of high academic merit and intellectual depth. The courses are truly international in outlook, especially as examples and exercises are drawn from various jurisdictions.’
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Wales offers international students an incredible amount of choices. If you’d like to study by the coast or in a bustling city, Wales offers you a number of attractive options.
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Glyndwr University has campuses across North East Wales and London. The main campus is based in Wrexham and courses are tailored to be relevant to industry and professional applications. The University works closely with nearly 1500 partners in business and education to ensure our graduates get the skills they need to gain employment. For example, the Advanced Composite Training and Development Centre, is a result a groundbreaking partnership between the University, Airbus, Deeside College and the Welsh Government. The University is involved in many research projects from small scale, such as helping local businesses in solving issues, to very large scale, such as helping develop advanced optical technologies for the world’s largest astronomical telescope, to be built at the European Southern Observatory. The emphasis is always on problem- solving and using our latest ideas and state-of-the-art technical know-how, some of which was recognised as “world leading” in the last Research Assessment Exercise.
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Our students have an 81.6% success rate for securing graduate-level jobs, the highest in Wales and among the top 25 universities in Britain, according to the 2013 Sunday Times university guide. Glyndwr University’s links with business allow students to gain work experience related to their course. This also means that courses are designed with the advice of businesses and professional bodies at local and national level to reflect changes in industry and to meet the needs of employers. Some of our industry partnerships include:
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Wales, or to use its proper name in Welsh, Cymru, is a green and beautiful country, which is part of the UK. It is both rich in history and scenery, with hundreds of castles, Britain’s most famous national parks and miles of picturesque coastline.
The Welsh are passionate about sport. The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff is one of the best in the world and the natural environment provides you with the chance to take part in a wide range of outdoor activities such as surfing, rock climbing and hiking.
Airbus, Rolls Royce and the BBC. Our students also have the support of the Careers Centre based in the Centre for Employability. Their advisors can help students with impartial, professional information and advice.
Glyndwr University offers a full range of student support services from student funding and welfare for help with money matters to disability support and counselling services and a chaplaincy. Students will also find assistance to maximize their academic potential at the university. The Students’ Guild is there to put forward students’ views to the University and work with the National Union of Students (NUS). Study
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If culture is high on your list of priorities then Wales will not disappoint. It has many theatres, music venues and galleries. Wales has a rich literary heritage which has its roots in ancient Celtic culture and more recently includes such notable names as Dylan Thomas and Roald Dahl.
Welsh universities offer all of the advantages of their fellow UK institutions but also provide relatively small staff-student ratios, one to one support and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere for international students.
The Students’ Guild also ensures that there is a varied programme of events throughout the year. Freshers’ week offers students a range of activities from trips off campus to DJ nights and lots of on campus activities. Parties and charity events such as RAG (Raising and Giving) week are all part of the student experience. There are lots of student societies to get involved in from sports such as mountaineering, golf and kickboxing to dance, amateur dramatics and academic societies such as psychology or creative media plus many more. In August 2012 the new Students’ Guild bar The Centenary Club opened after a £90K refurbishment. The university worked with students to find out what they wanted and the result is state-of-the-art facilities including plasma screens, pool tables, Wi-Fi and a stage area for live bands, DJs and comedy events.
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• In 2011 over 14,000 international students from outside Europe enrolled on courses in Wales (they make up about 10% of the student population).
• Wales welcomes international students from over 120 countries enrolling onto 5500 courses.
• Wales has 30 centres of excellence, 91 departments rated 4 star and above for research and 66 departments listed as excellent for teaching quality.
• Welsh universities are proud of the level of personal support that they offer to international students. Institutions provide a wide range of services, such as pre-departure briefings and handbooks.
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The University has many great facilities, students can choose from a selection of accommodation options including the new £40 million Wrexham Village. BBC Cymru Wales are based on campus in our new Centre for the Creative Industries. The centre includes a TV studio, mac and pc suites, 3D workshops and design studios. Other facilities include Centre for the Child, Family and Society, a research centre and childcare facility, Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium where Wrexham FC and The Crusaders Rugby League team are based. There is also Calon FM, a community radio station, flight simulator, Chinese medicine clinic, Terry Hands theatre studio and many more. Take a virtual tour at the facilities online:
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Wrexham is a bustling town with a lively arts scene, cinema and range of shopping, pubs, restaurants and clubs. On campus there is a varied program of arts and entertainment throughout the year, with music, comedy and theatre shows. The university is well situated, only a 5 minute walk to the train station where Liverpool is 45 minutes, Manchester only an hour away and the beautiful countryside scenery of Wales is close at hand.
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• Access to free English language support is available at all of Wales’ institutions.
Glyndŵr University’s main campus rests in the inspirational hills of North Wales, delivering high-quality academia to students from all around the world. Ultra-modern facilities and resources team up with our reputation for excellent teaching and research. Companies value our high standard of research and in return help us provide the skills and knowledge you will need, all at an internationally significant level.
• Universities offer lots of help for funding your studies including international scholarship schemes.
• Students studying in Wales are happy! Aberystwyth has been voted best university town in Britain and Swansea University has won an award for the best student experience in the UK.
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