westminster.ac.uk/law WESTMINSTER LAW SCHOOL POSTGRADUATE COURSES CONNECT WITH WESTMINSTER ONLINE facebook.com/ twitter.com/ youtube.com/user/ uniofwestminster uw_wls uniofwestminster instagram.com/ blog.westminster.ac.uk/ See our University uniwestminster international page on LinkedIn WeChat: weibo.com/ westminsteruni westminsterchina India: twitter.com/westminsterin facebook.com/UniversityOfWestminster in.linkedin.com/in/universityofwestminster WESTMINSTER LAW SCHOOL WESTMINSTER LAW China: westminsterchina.cn FIND OUT MORE Mobile app for students: westminster.ac.uk/iwestminster Sign up for customised content: your.westminster.ac.uk/form/enquiry Create your own Virtual Open Day: yourvirtualopenday.westminster.ac.uk POSTGRADUATE COURSES POSTGRADUATE COURSE ENQUIRIES T: +44 (0)20 7915 5511 E: [email protected] 101 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6XH University of Westminster ranked among top 100 most international universities in the world (THE, 2016) CONTENTS WESTMINSTER WELCOME ...................................................................2 LAW SCHOOL KEY STAFF ..................................................................... 4 FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME ALUMNI PROFILES ........................................................11 POSTGRADUATE COURSES POSTGRADUATE COURSES ............................................14 CONFLICT PREVENTION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION MA .......14 CORPORATE FINANCE LAW LLM ...................................18 ENTERTAINMENT LAW LLM ..........................................22 GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW (CPE) ...............................26 INTERNATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW LLM ................................................30 INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LLM ......................34 INTERNATIONAL LAW LLM ...........................................38 LEGAL PRACTICE LLM (LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE) ............42 POSTGRADUATE OCCASIONAL STUDIES PROGRAMME ...46 ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT ...........................47 RESEARCH AT WESTMINSTER LAW SCHOOL .................. 49 ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER ....................54 LIVING AND STUDYING IN LONDON ............................ 56 AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE .................................. 57 STUDYING AT WESTMINSTER ........................................ 58 COURSE STRUCTURE ..................................................... 59 ACCOMMODATION, FEES AND FUNDING .................... 60 LOCATION ................................................................... 62 CONTACT US ............................................................... 64 COURSE ENQUIRIES First Floor Cavendish House 101 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6XH T: +44 (0)20 7915 5511 E: course-enquiries@ westminster.ac.uk FOR POSTGRADUATE INFORMATION EVENING DATES visit our website westminster.ac.uk i westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law CONTENTS 1 WELCOME Westminster Law School offers a broad and All students are encouraged to be involved with innovative range of postgraduate academic one or more research centres. and professional courses. The School has an extremely strong suite of Masters courses Our substantial cohort of PhD research students aligned to our research strengths, which work closely with our internationally recognised include business, finance, international, human research staff. Research students have their rights, mediation and entertainment. All of our own research methods training programme and postgraduate Masters courses are orientated attend weekly staff research seminars in term to the real world and legal practice. Many, time. Postgraduate students on our LPC and like the Corporate Finance Law LLM, have Masters courses have areas of the Westminster substantial input from experts in industry, Law School building set aside for their exclusive based in world centres of excellence such as use, and PhD students are located next door in the City of London. All our taught academic their own office suite in Great Portland Street. postgraduate courses are linked to one of This high level of activity and interaction lends the School’s research centres and you will be intellectual vibrancy to postgraduate study at taught by academic staff who are not only Westminster Law School. qualified educationalists but active researchers passionate about their subject area. For example, the International Law LLM is linked Liz Duff with the International Law at Westminster Head of Westminster Law School Research Group, and the Entertainment Law LLM is linked with tthe Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture. 2 WELCOME westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law 3 Richard Earle Hélène Lambert Hélène is a panel member of the Editorial KEY STAFF Senior Lecturer Professor Board, International Refugee Law Book Course Leader, Conflict Director of Research Series, published by Martinus Nijhoff; a Prevention, Dispute and Co-Director International Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Liz Duff Resolution MA Law LLM Law Initiative, School of Advanced Studies, Head of Westminster Course Leader, International Hélène has a PhD from the University of London; and a member of Law School and Commercial Dispute University of Exeter, and Licence the Editorial Board of the Refugee Law LLB Honours (Business Law), Resolution Law LLM en Droit and Maitrise de Droit Reader, published by the Hungarian Helsinki MSc (City) LSF Cert Ed Richard is formerly a practising solicitor, and Public from the University of Strasbourg. She is Committee. She was the Convenor for the Liz was on secondment to is the creator and course leader of the LLM Professor of International Law at Westminster Migration Section of the SLS (2004-2007). the Vice-Chancellor’s Student in International and Commercial Dispute Law School. Hélène was previously a Reader at She is Research Director for Westminster Law Experience project from 2006-8 Resolution Law, and the Conflict Prevention, Westminster (2007-2010), a Senior Lecturer at School and Deputy Director for the LLM in and was the Senior Project Director liaising with Dispute Resolution MA. He teaches several Brunel University (2006-2007), and a Lecturer International Law. all branches of the University to assist in the modules on the Masters degree programme. at the University of Exeter (1993-2005) and Vice-Chancellor’s strategic development. the University of the West of England, Bristol His academic focus is on legal and other (1991-1993). In 1996, she worked as a Derek Lavery Liz has taught on undergraduate and aspects of conflicts and disputes; international Protection (Legal) Officer for the United Nations Senior Lecturer postgraduate courses offered by Westminster and commercial prevention and resolution High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Course Director, Graduate Law School, principally contracts and torts, processes; corporate foreign direct investment She was also a stagiaire ad hoc at the Council Diploma in Law (CPE) legal skills, the English legal system and and arbitration; and international tax and of Europe (1997) and a visiting fellow at Derek is a former practising research methods. She is also involved in taxation. He has previously published on issues the Refugee Studies Centre, University of solicitor, working in private academic management, teaching, learning and in international commercial arbitration and Oxford (1999) and and Dyason research practice until 1999, his assessment policy in the Law School, as well as international tax law. fellow at the University of Melbourne (2015). principal areas of practice curriculum design and quality assurance. She being civil litigation, personal injury and has been a consultant to the UKCLE on matters Hélène was also a consultant for UNHCR, employment law. of LLB curriculum and widening participation, Chris Ellins the Council of Europe, and the European and has advised a number of universities on Senior Lecturer Commission. In this capacity, she wrote the Derek joined the School of Law in 1999 as a this area. Liz was also one of the founders Course Leader, Entertainment study that formed the basis of Recommendation member of the LPC team. He became Leader of the Law and Diversity programme at the Law LLM 99(23) adopted by the Council of Ministers of the part-time Graduate Diploma in Law in University of Westminster School of Law. Chris has been the Course of the Council of Europe, and advised the 2004, and is now the overall Course Director Leader of the Entertainment Governments of Moldova, Ukraine and Serbia- of the GDL programme. Derek’s areas of Liz has carried out funded empirical research Law LLM since 2007 and has Montenegro on their draft asylum legislation. teaching include Contract Law on the GDL, for a number of organisations including the taught on the programme She also participated in the training of officials and Civil and Commercial Litigation on the Law Society of England and Wales. She also since its inception in 1999. He specialises on behalf of the Council of Europe and UNHCR LPC; he also teaches Solicitors’ Accounts undertakes consultancy work. Liz has given or in Intellectual Property Law and European in Poland, Slovenia, Moldova, Romania and Advocacy. contributed to a number of conference papers Union Law and has research interests in these and Serbia-Montenegro. She has acted as a including at the Law and Society Association/ areas. Chris has been in legal education since consultant for the Swedish Ministry of Justice Derek’s other current duties include that of Canadian Law and Society Association; Socio- 1993. He established and