Corporate & Commercial Law LLM

Our Corporate and Commercial Law LLM can help you acquire the knowledge and skills to work confidently within those areas of the law. This course takes into account that we live in an era of digital revolution, climate change, and global economic tensions. Core modules are:

• comparative corporate law and insolvency
• corporate governance

You can also choose from a variety of specialised modules, including:

• corporate sustainability and ESG Law
• intellectual property law
• private international law of business transactions
• competition law

Expertise in corporate and commercial law is more important than ever. This area of law is essential for the smooth operation of businesses. It also ensures that they fulfil their obligations to stakeholders and society.

There is an increasing demand for lawyers who have a comprehensive, deep, and critical understanding of the field, especially in legal practice.

You can also find employment in various established or emerging industrial sectors, for example,  finance, government agencies and civil society organisations.

Core modules have a corporate or commercial law focus, and also your dissertation will be written on a topic in these areas of the law. 

The module Comparative Corporate Law and Insolvency will provide a strong foundation for the programme, with its focus on the structure and development of company law in the United Kingdom in an international context.

The Corporate Governance module addresses the distribution of power within companies, and addresses methods of regulating governance, governance systems across the world, auditors, internal control, and good governance.

Alongside these corporate modules, you can also select options from the School’s portfolio of modules with a commercial law focus.

The LLM Corporate and Commercial Law also allows you to choose modules from a range of specialist courses at the University of Dundee’s Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy (CEPMLP) and the School of Business.

This provides opportunities for interdisciplinary learning and allows you to expand your knowledge and to develop a coherent body of expertise in the wider field of corporate law.