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Joint LLM in International Commercial Law

Study at Dundee Law School and the University of Cergy Pontoise France

The Joint Masters, which launched in 2008, brings together two dynamic and highly rated law schools. Students will be taught through English by acknowledged experts and will gain an in depth knowledge of a wide range of contemporary commercial law subjects from both a common law and civil law perspective.

Students enrolled on the dual qualifying LLM will graduate with a LLM in International Commercial Law from Dundee Law School and an LLM in Business & Taxation Law or Law & Business Ethics from University of Cergy-Pontoise [UCP].

The autumn semester will be spent in Scotland where, after a week long induction session, students will select two modules from the International Commercial Law programme:

Joint LLM in International Commercial Law
International Business Transactions I Principles of International Contract Law
Prinicples of Corporate Law
Principles of International E-Commerce  

For the spring semester students will go to Cergy-Pontoise, 30 minutes from the centre of Paris, and enrol in either the Business and Taxation Law Master or the Master in Law & Business Ethics.

Students must complete four modules, taught through English. These include options in:

Compliance Capital Markets and Banking
Company Law Anti-Trust and Competition Law

On completion of the second semester in June, students will return to Dundee for the summer semester to complete a 15,000 word dissertation on a comparative commercial law topic. The dissertation will be submitted by mid-August.

For more information on this LLM, please see this Joint LLM Outline document.