Kingston University, LLM, International Commercial Law

The International Commercial Law LLM provides you with the opportunity to acquire a detailed knowledge and understanding of legal rules relating to international business, commerce, contractual matters and the effective resolution of disputes. The course covers arbitration, international trade contracts, EU competition law and international trade laws.

Develop your skills

When you successfully complete the International Commercial Law LLM you will have acquired significant research and analytical skills in a range of aspects of international business and corporate law, studying international laws, case studies, and analyzing best practice. The dissertation module allows you to carry out a large piece of independent research with one-to-one supervision in a field of your choice.

A Kingston LLM will substantially enhance your trajectory towards the job you want in practice as an adviser on contractual matters, financial law, working as a solicitor or barrister or as a professional or in-house legal adviser, a company administrator or in the wide variety of roles where the ability to apply and advise upon business law issues is significant.

For practicing solicitors, barristers and other legal professionals, this LLM qualification will help hone and direct your work towards the fields which interest you the most and give you the opportunity to refresh and enhance your knowledge and research skills. A specialized LLM will significantly improve your prospects of career progression in the direction you want.

A focused and dedicated community

Kingston Law School is based on the Kingston Hill campus in the London Borough of Kingston. The leafy campus has excellent transport links and is just half an hour from the city center.

The department have expert staff dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals. Studying at Kingston you will have a wealth of resources at your fingertips in terms of research papers and journals (which can also be accessed remotely), dedicated state-of-the-art computer labs and personalized help when you need it.

"Kingston Law School has very good staff to student ratios which allow students the access to staff for the one-to-one help that students sometimes need." – Siri Harris, senior lecturer in law