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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

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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 teaches the modules and trained judges and legal advisors in the Learning, Teaching and Quality Representative Legal Studies Association; and the International Intellectual Property and Merchandising in Swedish immigration courts and foreign office; on the University’s Course Validation and Review Legal Ethics Conference. the Entertainment Business. He also lectures in she is currently undertaking a project for the Panel and a School of Law Staff Appraiser. He general Intellectual Property Law and European UNHCR, seeking to develop doctrinal guidance has been involved in validation and monitoring Union Law. He is a former practising solicitor. on issues of nationality and statelessness. of a number of external law courses, and is currently an LPC External Examiner.

4 KEY STAFF westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law KEY STAFF 5 Dr Simon Newman Catherine Pedamon Professor Marco Roscini Dr Martin J Skirrow Senior Lecturer Senior Lecturer Director Director of Legal Practice Postgraduate Law Programme Deputy Director, International International Law LLM Director of the full- and Leader, Course Leader Commercial Law LLM Marco holds a PhD from part-time LPC International Commercial Catherine joined the University the University of Rome ‘La Martin has overriding Law LLM of Westminster in 2010 Sapienza’. He specialises in responsibility for the Legal Simon took his undergraduate and currently teaches on the international law of armed Practice Course (as validated degree in Law at University a number of LLB and LLM conflict, nuclear non-proliferation by the Solicitors Regulation College, Oxford in 1994, and completed his courses, including teaching modules in Law law and international cyber security law. His Authority). He was awarded his Doctorate in PhD (awarded May 2000) at the University of International Sales, Law of International scholarship has appeared, or is forthcoming, in 1988 for research in the field of corporate of Sheffield, on ‘The European Community Trade, Corporate Social Responsibility Issues important peer-reviewed journals. His books and insolvency and subsequently qualified as a and the Philosophical Basis of Copyright Law: and Comparative Law. She is a graduate of articles have been widely cited in legal literature solicitor in 1991, with a leading City practice. Author’s Rights, Freedom of Contract, and the University of Paris II – Pantheon-Assas. She and judicial decisions. Martin has been in legal education since the Information Society’. From 2000 he was holds a Masters from Harvard Law School 1995, teaching at Middlesex University and Research Assistant then Research Fellow in where she was a Fulbright Scholar, in addition Professor Roscini is a member of the the University of North London before joining Information Technology Law at Queen Mary, to her Masters degree from the University of International Law Association’s Committee Westminster in November 2000. Martin University of London. In 2004 he joined the Paris II. She is admitted to the New York and on Nuclear Weapons, Non-proliferation and became Director of Legal Practice in September University of Westminster as a Senior Lecturer. Paris bars and has practised internationally Contemporary International Law and of the 2006. He now teaches exclusively on the LPC, in New York, Paris and London with leading European Union Non-proliferation Consortium. focusing on Business Law and Practice, Business His primary teaching areas include e-commerce law firms. He is on the Editorial Board of several scientific Accounts, Taxation and Drafting. He also leads law, industrial and intellectual property journals. His current research interests include the LPC Stage Two Entertainment and Media rights, and contract. He also researches in Before joining the University of Westminster, she cyber warfare, nuclear non-proliferation law, elective and is responsible for the delivery of these areas, with a particular focus on the set up the LLM in International Business Law with the use of force in international law, and the the LPC Immigration Law elective including the philosophical basis for – and arguments against Professor Barry Rider at BPP Law School. She history of international law. Exemption from Level One Accreditation scheme. – current IP laws. Recent research publications started her academic career at the University include The Development of Copyright and of Texas at Austin teaching comparative Moral Rights in the European Legal Systems, finance and corporate law. She was research and Human Rights and Copyrights: A Look assistant to Professor von Mehren at Harvard at Practical Jurisprudence with Reference to Law School working on comparative law. Her Authors’ Rights. fields of interest include international trade law, corporate social responsibility and comparative law. She has written articles on corporate social responsibility, the harmonisation of practices in international project finance and arbitration.

6 KEY STAFF westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law KEY STAFF 7 Professor Joseph Tanega He is the author of 80 publications, 18 books Reader in International in the areas of securities regulations, risk Financial Law management, finance, regulatory reform, Course Leader, Corporate ethical financial instruments and category Finance Law LLM theory of law and finance, and over 62 major Professor/Reader Joseph articles and chapters in prestigious journals Tanega, BA Philosophy and books. Princeton University, M.Phil Oxon Oxford University Social Anthropology, Joseph’s research interests include the Juris Doctor University of San Diego School philosophical and mathematical foundations of of Law, is the Reader of International Finance law and finance, risk management, ethics Law, and is a qualified US lawyer, former and governance. investment banker with Nomura Securities and Kleinwort Benson Securities, former Director Joseph is also Visiting Professor of Regulation of Business Risk Consulting for Ernst & Young, and Supervision of Retail Banking, University London, where he was in charge of thought of Bologna, Alma Graduate School, Adjunct leadership for financial institutions and capital Professor of Law and Finance, Grenoble markets, and Deputy Attorney General of the Graduate School of Management, and Department of Social Services and Housing Professor of Law, King Abdulaziz University, in Hawaii where he led Federal and State Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. litigation on behalf of the State of Hawaii on matters concerning social welfare and housing For further information about his publications rights. He has provided legal and financial and PhD candidate supervision, please visit his consulting in 24 countries for a wide range academic profile at westminster.ac.uk/about- of public and private organisations, including us/our-people/directory/tanega-joseph major financial institutions in the UK, US and Europe, and the European Commission where he was the lead project finance consultant to the Russian Nuclear Ministry, and as a Senior Legal Consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group.

8 KEY STAFF westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law KEY STAFF 9 ALUMNI PROFILES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS

“When I was looking for a Masters course I was after specific modules that I wanted to study – international human rights law, and humanitarian law – and when I was comparing universities in London, Westminster was the only one which offered both of these modules on the one course, so it was the best option for me.

It was my first time studying in the UK, and both the location and the University really lived up to my expectations. Because the University is based in central London it’s easy to get to know the city. And everyone is really helpful at Westminster – starting from the School registry to the professors and the staff, everyone is there to help you out.

The way we were taught, and the way we were able to study, was one of the highlights of the course for me. At Westminster it was all about research and original coursework. It definitely taught me how to think, rather than what to think. The people on the course also helped to make it an amazing experience.

I learned so much, and I loved being at Westminster; I had really wanted to study in London for years, so this was a dream come true for me.” “BOTH THE LOCATION Emina Zahirovic International Law LLM AND THE UNIVERSITY REALLY LIVED UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS.”

10 westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ALUMNI PROFILE 11 “THE OPPORTUNITIES “I chose Westminster for my postgraduate The Law School is in the heart of central programme for many reasons. It offers an array London, which provides an assortment of social NOW OPEN TO MY of topical and internationally relevant courses activities. From shopping to sightseeing, tourism and academic programmes. I particularly to simply socialising, the list is endless. The CAREER ARE LIMITLESS wanted to major in international and School is close to historical monuments and commercial dispute resolution in order to work sites like Buckingham Palace, the Houses of AND INTERESTING.” for the UN or ECOWAS and not surprisingly, Parliament, the British Museum, Tate Modern, only the University of Westminster ran a full LLM Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar in this field. Square, the London Eye and the River Thames, which is simply amazing. On getting to Westminster Law School, I found the environment exciting and interesting. The The opportunities now open to my career academic and supporting staff were friendly are limitless and interesting. I have widely and highly professional in their relationship with travelled and worked in collaboration with, us. From the uncertainties of the introduction and as consultant to, several international and induction weeks, to the emotional outbursts organisations, state and non-state parties alike. and farewell hugs of the graduation days, I currently work as a Senior Legal Officer at the whole experience at Westminster was a the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation rollercoaster of memorable and tremendous and have so far had a successful career in events for me. However, meeting friends of law, conducting litigation, legal research diverse backgrounds and cultures, unreservedly and consultation. integrating together in an environment that promotes academic excellence was what I I would advise anyone looking to study law in found most interesting. the UK to enrol at the University of Westminster and get a head start with their career, while Academic freedom is also unprecedented at benefiting from a rich socio-cultural environment Westminster. To have completely disagreed that pervades academic and professional on points and principles with my supervisor excellence. Thank you, Westminster.” from start to finish and to still end up with a distinction in my dissertation was most extraordinary and unforgettable for me. Yahaya Usman-Wowo International and Commercial Dispute Resolution Law LLM

“THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE AT WESTMINSTER WAS A ROLLERCOASTER OF MEMORABLE AND TREMENDOUS EVENTS FOR ME.”

12 ALUMNI PROFILE westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ALUMNI PROFILE 13 CONFLICT PREVENTION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION MA

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time. January start available

Location Central London (Regent)

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

Course Leader Richard Earle [email protected]

This course embraces a wide range of public, private and domestic issues relevant to the prevention and resolution of conflicts and disputes, including the roles of laws, decisions, risks, and justice. The course includes (but is not restricted to) negotiation and arbitration, and also the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes such as mediation and conciliation. COURSE CONTENT Postgraduate Dissertation This module allows you to develop a knowledge You will be able to mix with students on other The course aims to provide an opportunity for and understanding of a specialist portion of Masters courses in Westminster Law School. in-depth study of the issues and the practices the field of conflict and dispute prevention Classes are usually small, allowing for an involved in the field of conflict prevention and and resolution. You will have the support of a interactive approach to learning. The course dispute resolution, including the mechanisms supervisor for this independent research and combines academic and practical approaches of prevention, emergence, avoidance, writing work. You must agree the topic with the to teaching and learning. management, resolution and regulation. module leader. The topic must not replicate your own prior work or anyone else’s work. Your The course content is not explicitly concerned work for this module should provide you with with ‘peace studies’, but the processes of advanced research skills, and advanced skills of prevention and the processes of resolution analysis, evaluation, synthesis, application and embrace the concepts of securing and writing, all of which should stand you in good maintaining peaceful cooperation. stead for any subsequent academic, practitioner, government, or business career.

CORE MODULES Research Theory and Practice Perspectives on Conflicts and Disputes This module introduces you to the general You will be introduced to the field of conflict concepts of legal and social scientific and dispute prevention and resolution. You will (empirical) methods of research, and gives cover domestic, commercial, municipal and you a greater understanding of the principles international aspects of the subject, and the of advanced research. You will consider the main processes involved in conflict and dispute relevance of these methods for the study of prevention and resolution. law, which will enhance your understanding

14 CONFLICT PREVENTION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION MA westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law CONFLICT PREVENTION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION MA 15 of the legal, social scientific and philosophical debates on methodology and practice. It will “The teaching staff here are absolutely also enable you to evaluate your own work and amazing. They let you go out and do the that of other researchers and authors. work and research and really make you think for yourself.” This is an independent module with its own Uma Mohammad rationale and assessment; but it is also Conflict Prevention, Dispute Resolution MA necessarily linked to the dissertation module. OPTION MODULES Conflict Resolution: Negotiation International Law and Development You will examine the theoretical and practical You will study law and policy relating to approaches to conflict and conflict resolution, international development, including the and you will study the structure of conflict right to development in international law, within and between organisations. You will international development assistance and also evaluate the ways in which negotiations poverty alleviation, and law and policy relating are formed, and what processes may be to overseas development assistance in the UK applied to enable or disable the negotiation and the EU. The module will give you a greater process. The module will develop your understanding of the global challenges for understanding of cultural differences within development, and will give you the skills to the area of negotiation and associated inter- undertake informed policy and advocacy personal priorities. work internationally. International Commercial Arbitration Mediation: Concepts, Evolution and Practice Restorative Justice: Cultures, Integration You will be introduced to the study of ASSOCIATED CAREERS This module introduces you to the modes and and Law international commercial arbitration, from culture of mediation as a dispute resolution This module provides an introduction to the This course is designed to benefit a wide range the perspective of the English jurisdiction process in a range of contexts, with a detailed field of restorative justice, covering of individuals, including graduates progressing (London seat). The aim is to study four pairs of analysis of the growth of mediation practice international, domestic and public aspects of towards a PhD programme, practising lawyers overlapping relationships: between parties and and theory, as well as current and possible the field, and the main processes involved in wanting to further their knowledge and skills, tribunals; between parties and courts; between future trends. You will become familiar with dispute prevention and resolution. The module other graduates and practitioners (such as tribunals and courts; and between England and the conceptual, legal and practical frameworks includes consideration of conflicts within and arbitrators, civil servants, insurers, journalists, foreign fora. There will be focus, inter alia, on of mediation, and how it is used in the UK between groups, and victim-offender mediation judges, linguists and mediators), and anyone the ICC (institutional arbitration) and the New and internationally. You will also develop and other processes within the field, including managing people and risks. The course is also York Convention. basic mediation skills, learn to appreciate reconciliation after civil disturbances. ideal if you are on a gap year between career stages, and for those from the European Union International Human Rights Law the roles of those taking part in the mediation processes, and acquire communication and and other countries who want to improve their The module introduces you to the protection other skills which are particularly useful in the Other approved modules, such as Private English for personal and career purposes. of human rights in international law. You mediation context. International Law, might be made available will gain an overview of the historical and depending on demand and the Head of philosophical background of human rights, Negotiation: Theory, Contexts and Practice Westminster Law School’s approval. and a greater understanding of the protection ENTRY REQUIREMENTS The aim of this module is to introduce the study of human rights at the international level You are expected to have a good UK Honours and practice of negotiation in the contexts though the UN and regional systems (with degree in Law or a non-Law subject (such of international and municipal commerce, particular emphasis on Europe). You will also RELATED COURSE as – but not limited to – Politics, Psychology, and international affairs and international study contemporary issues in international and Management) or the equivalent from a law, examining inter alia issues arising out of • International and Commercial Dispute human rights law, such as refugees, non-UK university, and satisfactory references. conflicts and disputes in those contexts. Among Resolution Law LLM humanitarian intervention, responsibility to Other qualifications or experiential routes can the areas covered are the relationships between protect, and terrorism and torture. sometimes be agreed. If your first language pairs of negotiators; negotiators and the law; is not English, you will normally need an negotiators and ambient cultures; and theories IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent in each of the and practices of negotiation. elements. Pre-sessional summer programmes are not normally appropriate for this course.

16 CONFLICT PREVENTION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION MA westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law CONFLICT PREVENTION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION MA 17 CORPORATE FINANCE COURSE CONTENT OPTION MODULES This course aims to give you a comprehensive These modules are recommended if you are LAW LLM* understanding of the practical processes looking to specialise in the financial industry. If and innovative products of the international you opt for the Dissertation you must select four

corporate finance market, including equity and option modules. If you opt for the Project you debt capital, derivatives, structured finance, risk must choose five option modules. Length of course management and investment portfolio products. One year full-time or two years It also develops the soft skills you will need in Derivatives and Structured Finance: Law part-time. January start available this area of practice, including negotiations and Practice and network building, with meetings with senior You will examine the law and practice relating Location lawyers and directors of major companies. to structuring, documenting and executing Central London (Regent) structured derivatives, capital markets and finance transactions. It will enable you to Course fees and funding identify, analyse and mitigate the legal and See westminster.ac.uk/fees CORE MODULES reputational risks inherent in structured finance Dissertation or Project transactions. The module will give you the Course Leader The Dissertation module allows you to extend tools to analyse, as lawyers, the complexity Joe Tanega your research into a topic of your choice within of international financial transactions relating [email protected] the broad field of corporate finance law. You to derivatives and structured finance, and the will need to agree the topic with the module skills to examine and critically assess financial leader, and it must not replicate materials products and techniques that constitute the Knowledge of corporate finance law is covered in other areas of your coursework. The building blocks of modern structured finance. essential for lawyers, bankers and financiers Project module enables you to independently who are keen to develop professional skills explore research and analyse a given topic or International Corporate Governance in corporate fundraising, deal structures and question. It will draw from the areas of general Corporate governance is increasingly regarded transactional management. This course offers corporate finance law and will be of an as vitally important to individual companies, the an enhanced qualification for professionals applied nature. wider market and the economy as a whole. In working or planning to work in a technically this module you will examine the legal risks of demanding and dynamic global industry. Investment Banking Principles and Practices directors of corporations and stakeholders, and It will appeal to both recent graduates and This module covers the key investment banking analyse their ethical duties in varying contexts practitioners considering various fields of work, principles and practices. You will develop the of corporate culture. You will also investigate including law, investment banking, corporate skills you need to examine, assess and prepare how decision makers make judgements in an finance, private equity, securities, investments, professional-level business plans, private increasingly information-rich and complex financial regulation, government agencies and placement memoranda and prospectuses. world, consider the impact of corporate cultures international financial authorities. You will also study confidentiality agreements, and values on managers’ strategic financial fundraising from the investment banking decision making, and examine the impact of You will focus on learning how the financial perspective, initial public offerings, and stock global risks, ethical duties and socio-cultural markets work, from the primary markets exchange trends and market requirements. values in financial and corporate capital involving the issuance of equity, debt and decision making. derivatives, to the secondary markets involving Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance trading and investments, as well as very large You will develop a broad and deep International Corporate Governance, financial transactions in the international capital understanding of the legal issues concerning Managing Global Risks and Ethics markets. Importantly, you will also learn how corporate financial transactions, including You will gain a comprehensive understanding to take account of legal and regulatory risks the interaction of corporate law and finance, of corporate governance issues at the board facing financiers and bankers, and structure and the legal mechanisms for fundraising in level, relating to major financial transactions, financial instruments to suit commercial the financial markets. There is a special risk management and compliance under US priorities and social welfare policies. emphasis on the regulations, customary rules and EU securities regulations and investment and practices of the venture capital market. law. You will be able to advise on financial The areas you will cover include basic regulatory reforms issues, risk management accounting, basic drafting, corporate structure, and ethics from practical legal and long-term exit routes, finance contracts, regulatory issues, philosophical perspectives, and to advise on sources and types of investment, tax, and the design of financial products that meet broad *Subject to approval transfer of shares. social needs.

18 CORPORATE FINANCE LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law CORPORATE FINANCE LAW LLM 19 International Energy Finance Law Legal Aspects of International Finance Focusing on large-scale, capital-intensive “Studying at a International finance is increasingly “I chose the University projects throughout the world, including world-renowned institution transforming itself into a borderless activity, of Westminster because oil and gas projects, LNG projects, power such as the University of frequently sourcing capital and undertaking of the uniqueness of its generation, renewable energy, and energy Westminster enabled me investment transactions throughout the United LLM in Corporate Finance infrastructure, you will examine the key stages to access the corporate States, Europe, Japan, China and other Law programme and the of the energy finance process, and assesses world with confidence, jurisdictions around the world. During this number of scholarships the major legal models used in international develop knowledge of module you will examine the dominant legal available for foreign energy transactions. You will learn to address my industry and gain a models influencing international financial and students. Lecturers were risk allocation and risk mitigation, and analyse practical foundation that money cannot investment transactions, especially in light very interesting, knowledgeable and and construct legal documentation concerning buy. It opened doors for me and my career of risk management practice and theory. professional; the library was incredibly financing sources, environmental issues, progressed from being a solicitor to CEO You will learn to use relevant legal extensive and the sports facilities were bilateral and multilateral credit support, loans, of a corporate law consultancy firm in components to analyse and construct great. The location of the University in the collateral, and permits. South Africa. It also provided me with innovative financial products. heart of London added much to the whole a stepping stone to be able to compete experience of studying in one of the most International Project Finance Law internationally and be taken seriously. Money Laundering and Corporate Fraud exciting cities in the world. This module focuses on large-scale, You will examine the risks from and remedies capital-intensive projects throughout the The Corporate Finance Law Masters for white-collar crime, and evaluate national After graduation, I came back to Argentina world, including power generation, energy, degree is truly exceptional. Being taught by legislation and international conventions and I am currently working at a top city infrastructure and urban regeneration. Project directors from the London Stock Exchange, dealing with white-collar crime. You will also law firm in Buenos Aires. The LLM boosted finance lawyers/consultants predict and resolve Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital to be able to identify types of criminal behaviour, my career and provided me with the a large number of potential risks involving mention but a few, made the course stand determine the liability of those participating necessary tools and experience to deal political, commercial, credit quality, insurance, out from its competitors. Not only did the in that behaviour, analyse and apply the with international clients on a daily basis.” course cement my corporate future, but it default and bankruptcy issues. They draw up defences available for defendants, and identify Gonzalo Oliva-Beltran also provided me with a network of alumni documents which capture a ‘mini legal system’ the importance and use of computers and the Corporate Finance Law LLM reflecting the entire legal process for a wide and friends that will last a lifetime.” internet in white-collar crime. range of project participants. You will learn to Dewald Edward Janse Van Rensburg address risk allocation and risk mitigation, and Corporate Finance Law LLM Please note that option modules are subject to analyse and construct legal documentation to student demand and staffing availability, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS concerning financing sources, environmental therefore not all modules will be offered in the issues, bilateral and multilateral credit support, same academic year. You will need to hold a good Second Class loans, collateral and permits. Honours degree (or non-UK equivalent) with an average of 55 per cent or above in Law Islamic Finance and Securitisation Law ASSOCIATED CAREERS or a related subject. We will also consider This module will give you a full understanding applicants who lack standard qualifications of the practical and theoretical aspects of This course will be of benefit if you are seeking but have significant professional or managerial Islamic finance and banking, and the essential to work in any of the range of disciplines experience in a relevant field. If your first principles underlying Islamic finance. You involved in corporate finance law, including language is not English, you will need an will review and assess the modes and legal accountancy, corporate banking, corporate IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent. The University structures of major financial transactions by finance, corporate law, investment banking, offers pre-sessional summer programmes if you Islamic finance institutions, and their corporate private equity and venture capital, as well as in need to improve your English before starting governance structures. You will also undertake related fields. your course. a legal and financial analysis of securitisation structures in Islamic finance.

20 CORPORATE FINANCE LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law CORPORATE FINANCE LAW LLM 21 ENTERTAINMENT LAW LLM*

Length of course One year full-time or two years part-time.

Location Central London (Regent)

Course fees and funding See westminster.ac.uk/fees

Course Leader Chris Ellins [email protected]

Entertainment is a large part of life globally in many forms such as music, film, media, sports and the arts. It is a combination of society, popular culture and commerce, and the interaction of these with law produces an exciting contemporary commercial subject with eclectic outcomes. It is an area deeply affected by technological progress as well as business adaptation. This course combines academic analysis and commercial practice elements of entertainment law in an international perspective. The diverse nature of entertainment law will enable you to follow COURSE CONTENT Postgraduate Dissertation in Law a number of relevant specialisms, all of which The Dissertation module allows you to extend are underpinned by issues of contract and The course aims to develop your understanding your research skills and develop an analytical intellectual property. of how key fields within the entertainment understanding of a specialist topic of your choice business operate, to assess the impact of the within the broad field of entertainment law, with The course will suit graduates from a law law upon them, and give you the practical supervision for your independent research. You background, or those from a non-law skills necessary to succeed in a career in will need to agree the topic with the module background who have significant relevant entertainment and media law. leader, and it must not replicate materials covered experience. There have been many successful in other areas of your coursework. international graduates on the course from all over the world. It will give you the opportunity CORE MODULES Research Theory and Practice to explore new ideas, thoughts and academic Intellectual Property in the Entertainment Business This module introduces you to the research experiences within a supportive environment. You will study the protection provided to methodology including general concepts of creative works by intellectual property law. You legal and social scientific (empirical) research, will also examine essential legal issues in the and gives you a deeper understanding of the context of the entertainment business, such as principles of advanced research. It will enable copyright (creation, infringement, ownership you to consider the relevance of these methods *Subject to approval and control), privacy for entertainment for the study of law. It will also enable you personalities, protection of ideas, the role and to evaluate your own work and that of other relevance of trade marks and performers rights researchers and authors. together with issues of enforcement.

22 ENTERTAINMENT LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ENTERTAINMENT LAW LLM 23 The Regulation of Relationships Law of Digital Entertainment and Social Media in the Entertainment Business Considers how law and technology has You will cover the formation and content of a created and influences law in relation to the number of relationships within the entertainment digital entertainment business including the business. Focusing on contract and contractual creation and distribution of products, examines theory as well as the broader context of how technological advances have affected relationships within entertainment, you will relationships and rights within the digital examine the negotiation process involved in entertainment business. It analyses ways that law music business, sports contracts and other has responded to the digital environment and media contracts. You will also study the role of technological change and examines legal issues professional organisations in the development arising from the development and use of social of contractual terms, and analyse deficiencies media for business and personal purposes. in contractual bargaining and term formation that have led to legal intervention by the courts. ASSOCIATED CAREERS As an entertainment law graduate you will OPTION MODULES be able to develop a career in a whole Merchandising in the Entertainment Business range of legal and non-legal professions This module considers the creation, protection within the entertainment industry. This is a and merchandising of entertainment brands contemporary commercial law subject giving and products. It examines legal issues of brand a modern edge to traditional law subjects development in the entertainment business in and is well respected by employers. Among particular in relation to the use of trademarks, other careers, graduates have worked as passing off (unfair competition) and design law, entertainment lawyers, in roles in management including the relationship of copyright law, and agencies, music, media, film, sports or associated contract law use. publishing companies, and collecting societies.

Areas include personality rights, character merchandising, sports merchandising, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS sponsorship, online and off-line brand creation and protection, ambush marketing, as well as You should hold an Honours degree (Upper fashion and design protection. or Lower Second Class Honours degree, with average of 55 per cent or above) in Law and Media: Content and Control Law, or a degree with a skills profile which This module will analyse the legal regulation shows an aptitude for legal study, but we of content and control of the media. You will will consider mature applicants without examine contemporary policy and regulatory standard qualifications who have significant frameworks for public and commercial media set professional experience in the relevant field. in the light of technological advancement. You Please contact us for an informal discussion will develop awareness of legal and regulatory if you fall outside the standard category. This issues in operating the media such as censorship course has been very successfully completed and advertising. by a wide variety of non-law graduates. If Law is not the subject of your first degree, evidence of Law-based modules or relevant experience should be supplied. If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent. The University offers pre-sessional summer programmes if you need to improve your English before starting your course.

24 ENTERTAINMENT LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ENTERTAINMENT LAW LLM 25 GRADUATE DIPLOMA COURSE CONTENT “I had heard horror stories The Graduate Diploma in Law will enable you about how tough the GDL IN LAW (CPE) to develop your knowledge and understanding was but the lecturers were of basic legal principles, their application to the brilliant at structuring

formulation and resolution of legal problems, the course in a way that and an enquiring, logical and critical approach Length of course was easy to process and to legal analysis. It builds upon the academic they offered assistance One year full-time or two years and professional expertise previously acquired whenever it was needed. part-time (two evenings per week) by graduate students and develops the relevant Unlike a number of other providers, skills needed to demonstrate competence in Location Westminster also delivers the majority legal practice. of lecturers live, which I found particularly Central London (Regent) helpful as it gave me the opportunity to By the end of the course, you will have Course fees and funding interact and ask questions when it a greater understanding of the areas of was needed.” See westminster.ac.uk/fees law studied, of the legal process and the interrelationship between different areas of Kate Sills Course Leader law in a national and European context. You Graduate Diploma in Law Derek Lavery will also be able to identify, find and use a [email protected] range of sources of legal information to assist in legal research, analyse legal information Equity and Trusts and apply it to the solution of problems. This intensive conversion course is designed You will consider the historical development for non-law graduates of any discipline, or of equity and the concept of the trust, and overseas law graduates who wish to qualify as the rules on creation of express trusts. The either barristers or solicitors. The course begins FOUNDATION SUBJECTS module compares public and private trusts, with a two-week introduction to the English Contract Law and trusts for non-profit making associations. It legal system and the legal profession. You will This will introduce you to modern English also focuses on the principles of resulting and then study the seven foundation subjects. contract law as part of the wider law of constructive trusts, trustees’ powers and duties, obligations. The course examines formation and issues relating to liability for breach of If you successfully complete the course you will of a binding contract through agreement, the trust. Equitable remedies are examined and, be eligible for entry on to the Legal Practice scope of both positive and negative contractual where appropriate, compared with common Course (LPC) or the Bar Professional Training obligations, factors which affect an otherwise law remedies. The impact of the Human Rights Course (BPTC). enforceable contract, and remedies available Act 1998 is also considered. for breach of contract. In addition, the course We have been successfully running this considers special rules applying to particular Land Law conversion course since 1977 and our types of contract. This subject opens with an introduction to land students have taken a variety of first degrees ownership, before considering three main areas at a wide range of universities. Our teaching Criminal Law of land acquisition – adverse possession, the team contains a rich mix of those who are You will develop your understanding of formalities associated with s.2 of the Law of professionally qualified and others who are criminal liability, and be able to analyse Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, active researchers. The course therefore criminal law, as well as appreciating its and an outline of the conveyancing process. provides a stimulating learning experience. nature, scope and purpose. The course You will also look at the landlord and tenant This is reinforced by our small class sizes and covers the general principles of criminal law, relationship, lease/licence distinctions and the supportive atmosphere within Westminster including the definition of a crime, elements of leasehold covenants. Other areas covered Law School. criminal liability, defences, inchoate offences, include the rules relating to notice in registered and complicity. You will also focus on a number and unregistered land, overriding interests, of specific offences, including fatal and non- freehold covenants, easements and profits, fatal offences against the person, theft and and co-ownership. The module concludes by criminal damage. studying licences and estoppel, and mortgages.

26 GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW (CPE) westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW (CPE) 27 Project in an Additional Area of Law You will be required to write a 4,000-word essay, from a choice of titles covering areas such as employment law, human rights and intellectual property.

RELATED COURSES • Legal Practice LLM (LPC)

ASSOCIATED CAREERS The course is designed for those graduates who wish to qualify as a solicitor or barrister. The full-time course also enables overseas students to gain an English law qualification in one year.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS You will need a minimum of a Lower Second Class Honours degree in a non-Law subject, or equivalent postgraduate degree. If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent. The University offers pre-sessional summer programmes if you need to improve your English before starting your course.

Law of the European Union Legal Skills Applications for the full-time Graduate Diploma You will develop your understanding of In addition to the legal skills that you learn as in Law course must be made online at the legislative and judicial structure and part of the course we aim to provide a series of lawcabs.ac.uk. Applications for the part-time functioning of EU institutions, the fundamental extra curricula activities such as mooting and Graduate Diploma in Law course must be made characteristics of EU law, its methods and Pro Bono/clinical work. These help to put your via ukpass.ac.uk procedures, and its relationship to national legal knowledge into a practical context. law. You will then apply this knowledge to substantive areas of law, such as the Public Law economic and social law of the internal This module looks at the structure and market, social policy and competition law. principal characteristics of the constitution of The module shows how EU law has been the UK, comparing it with other constitutions, influenced by its historical, political, economic and analysing how it affects the exercise of and social contexts. governmental power and the protection of fundamental rights. You will gain a greater Law of Tort understanding of the role of the organs of You will consider the key areas in the modern government and their relations with each law of tort such as negligence, defamation other, and the doctrine of Parliamentary and trespass, and discuss the legal rules, supremacy. You will also examine the impact concepts and policies involved in relevant case of membership of the European Community on law and statute. The course also examines the the UK’s constitution, the extent of prerogative wider social and economic issues raised by powers, mechanisms for the protection of particular areas of tort, and the operation of fundamental rights, and the role of judicial the tort system. review and its relationship with the rule of law.

28 GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW (CPE) westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW (CPE) 29 COURSE CONTENT Research Theory and Practice INTERNATIONAL AND This module introduces you to the general COMMERCIAL DISPUTE The course provides an opportunity for in-depth concepts of legal and social scientific study of the substantive and procedural issues (empirical) methods of research, and gives RESOLUTION LAW LLM involved in the field, and also the acquisition you a greater understanding of the principles of skills involved in some of the processes. of advanced research. You will consider the It is centrally concerned with law and other relevance of these methods for the study of rules (international and commercial) which are law, which will enhance your understanding Length of course applicable in adjudication and also in the other of the legal, social scientific and philosophical One year full-time or two years dispute resolution processes. debates on methodology and practice. It will part-time (January start available) also enable you to evaluate your own work and In addition to taught modules, there is also that of other researchers and authors. Location the Dissertation module which provides Central London (Regent) an opportunity for developing a specialist knowledge of a small area of the field, which OPTION MODULES Course fees and funding might lead to a publishable article. See westminster.ac.uk/fees ARBITRATION

Course Leader CORE MODULES Comparative Commercial Arbitration: Law and Practice Richard Earle Perspectives on Conflicts and Disputes [email protected] You will be introduced to the study of This taught module introduces some of the comparative international commercial essential elements of dispute resolution, and arbitration (excluding international arbitration is designed to enable anyone to develop The course is intended for anyone wishing between sovereign states and non-sovereign insights into the nature of international and to demonstrate a commitment to contentious entities in the context of cross-border direct commercial disputes and how they might best law in public and private international and investment). You will examine the law and be resolved effectively. commercial legal contexts. The taught part of practice of international arbitration in the major arbitration centres of the world, and explore the programme includes modules which reflect Postgraduate Dissertation the three main forms of dispute resolution how different legal systems, and arbitrators This module allows you to develop a process, namely adjudication (litigation and from different legal cultures, interact in the knowledge and understanding of a specialist arbitration), alternative dispute resolution (ADR course of resolution of commercial disputes portion of the field of international and – principally mediation), and negotiation. by arbitration. commercial dispute resolution. You will have the support of a supervisor for this independent This course should be distinguished from the Foreign Direct Investment Arbitration research and writing process. You must agree International Commercial Law LLM course (see This module introduces you to the study of the topic with the module leader. The topic page 32) which is primarily concerned with public international arbitration between must not replicate your own prior work or non-contentious aspects of commerce (modules sovereign states and non-sovereign anyone else’s work. Your work for this module include competition law, trade, and insurance). entities, such as companies, in the context of should provide you with advanced skills in cross-border direct investment. You will examine research, analysis, evaluation, and writing, Class sizes are, in general, quite small, and the investment and disinvestment relationships all of which should stand you in good stead you will be able to mix with students on other between disputing parties (state and private) for any subsequent academic, practitioner, Masters courses in Westminster Law School. and the nature, function and interpretation of government, or business career. foreign investment instruments. You will also explore the relationship between international law and municipal investment laws, and tribunals and awards.

30 INTERNATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law INTERNATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW LLM 31 “On getting to the School of Law, I found ASSOCIATED CAREERS the environment exciting and interesting. The course is designed to benefit a wide The academic and supporting staff were range of individuals who are committed to friendly and highly professional in their developing their knowledge, skills and insights relationship with us.” into contentious international and commercial dispute resolution. The range of individuals Yahaya Usman-Wowo who can benefit include: more experienced International and Commercial Dispute practitioners such as potential judges, arbitrators, Resolution Law LLM and mediators; other professionals who need to have advanced appreciation of international and commercial law, such as civil servants, diplomats, directors, insurers, journalists, PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL linguists, and managers; and paralegals and newly qualified practitioners who need to fill in International Human Rights Law the gaps left by their existing qualifications and This module introduces you to the protection experience to date. of human rights in international law. You will gain an overview of the historical and The course is also ideal if you want to progress philosophical background of human rights, and towards a PhD programme. The course will a greater understanding of the protection of also be beneficial for you if you are taking a human rights at the international level through gap year between career stages, and if you are from continental European Union or other International Commercial Arbitration Restorative Justice: Cultures, Integration and Law the UN and regional systems (with particular countries and want to improve your English for You will be introduced to the study of This module provides an introduction to the field emphasis on Europe). You will also study career purposes. international commercial arbitration from of restorative justice, covering international, contemporary issues in international human the perspective of the English jurisdiction domestic and public aspects of the field, rights law, such as refugees, humanitarian (London seat). The aim is to include four pairs and the main processes involved in dispute intervention, responsibility to protect, and of overlapping relationships: between parties prevention and resolution. The module includes terrorism and torture. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS and tribunals; between parties and courts; consideration of conflicts within and between You should have a good Honours degree in Law between tribunals and courts; and between groups, and victim-offender mediation and Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes or any non-law subject from a UK university, or England and foreign fora. There will be focus, other processes within the field. This module will introduce you to the various the equivalent from a non-UK university, and inter alia, on the ICC (institutional arbitration) techniques and institutions available in satisfactory references. Other qualifications or and the New York Convention. international law for resolving disputes between experiential routes can sometimes be agreed. If NEGOTIATION States. You will examine diplomatic means your first language is not English, you will need of dispute settlement, including negotiation an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent in each of MEDIATION Negotiation: Theory, Contexts and Practice and mediation, and legal means of dispute the elements. Pre-sessional summer programmes The aim of this module is to introduce the study settlement – arbitration and litigation. You will are not normally appropriate for this course. Mediation: Concepts, Evolution and Practice and practice of negotiation in the contexts also consider the availability of alternative This module introduces you to the modes and of international and municipal commerce, mechanisms for the resolution of inter-state culture of mediation as a dispute resolution international affairs and international law, disputes, and the range of international courts process in a range of contexts, with a detailed examining inter alia issues arising out of and tribunals that now exist. The module RELATED COURSES analysis of the growth of mediation practice conflicts and disputes in those contexts. Among refers to specific past and pending cases and • Conflict Prevention, Dispute Resolution MA disputes, and there will be a special emphasis and theory, as well as current and possible the areas covered are the relationships between • International Commercial Law LLM future trends. You will become familiar with the pairs of negotiators; negotiators and the law; on the law, practice and procedure of the conceptual, legal and practical frameworks for negotiators and ambient cultures; and theories International Court of Justice. mediation, and how it is used in the UK and and practices of negotiation. internationally. You will also develop basic Other approved modules such as International mediation skills, learn to appreciate the Commercial Litigation and Private International roles of those taking part in the mediation Law might be made available depending on processes, and acquire communication and demand and the Head of Westminster Law other skills which are particularly useful in the School’s approval. mediation context.

32 INTERNATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law INTERNATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW LLM 33 CORE MODULES International Tax Law INTERNATIONAL You will analyse the nature of tax, taxation and COMMERCIAL LAW LLM* Dissertation tax bases in the law, giving you the opportunity The Dissertation module allows you to to survey the legal and non-legal implications extend your research into a topic of your of cross-border taxation. You will also study choice within the broad field of international the interaction between states and taxpayers, commercial law. You will need to agree the Length of course treaty law and tax conventions, and the role of topic with the module leader, and it must not One year full-time or two years international bodies such as the OECD. replicate materials covered in other areas of part-time (January start available) your coursework, other than any Dissertation Law of the Internal Market of The Proposal written as part of the Research Location European Union Methods and Theory module. Central London (Regent) This module explores the key elements of the EU’s internal market. You will start with the Foundations of International Commercial Law Course fees and funding evolution of economic integration between This module enables you to analyse the key See westminster.ac.uk/fees the member states, and follow this with an principles for the application of international in-depth analysis of the main elements of the commercial law, and the context within which it Course Leader internal market. This includes free movement operates. You will develop your understanding Simon Newman of goods, free movement of persons, right of of the legal rules affecting the international sale [email protected] establishment and free movement of services. of goods contract, and high-level research skills In order to present the internal market from in this subject and its related fields. a broader perspective two lectures are This course balances the best of a rigorous, devoted to recognition of diplomas and public traditional legal education with a contemporary procurement. There will also be an emphasis on perspective. Our areas of specialisation OPTION MODULES free movement of capital and payments. address today’s most important business Carriage of Goods and legal challenges, including the study of You will explore the contractual and legal Law of International Sales commercial relationships in the international relationships of persons involved in a carriage This module will give you the opportunity arena, the role and impact of electronic of goods arrangement. This module covers the to evaluate and critically examine the law commerce, and the gradual harmonisation of international carriage of goods by sea, air, governing the international sale contract. international commercial law. road and rail, with sea carriage as the main You will be introduced to the intricacies of focus. The module deals with the two principal international sale transactions, especially This Masters is not merely about what you learn forms of contracts used for the carriage of the content of the contract of international in the classroom, it is also about actual practice in goods by sea, the charter party, and the sale, the use of standard trade terms (such as today’s world of globalisation and international contract of affreightment. The emphasis of the INCOTERMS 2010), and the rights and commerce. That is why the LLM provides, in the module is to examine legal principles remedies available to sellers and buyers. You addition to a strong academic dimension, a against the backdrop of current shipping will also examine the role of documentation in concentrated, real-world-oriented legal education. practice and documentation. international sales, and will have the chance to discuss the role of the Vienna Convention on the The course offers you the opportunity to develop Corporate Social Responsibility Issues in international sale of goods. strong academic and practical skills in a highly Business and Law competitive and intellectually satisfying area This module looks at the tension for corporate Law Relating to Payment and Trade Finance of law. It is ideally suited to those who come entities between their business goals and their This module introduces you to how the from a commercial law, international business, social responsibilities. It draws a distinction international sale of goods is paid and management, or economics background. You between the legal and ethical demands financed. We examine the law which applies will have the opportunity to explore your on business in relation to corporate social to the payment and finance of international own ideas, gain knowledge and enhance responsibility and studies the ways in which sales, and the practical commercial issues transferable skills in a supportive environment. the two intersect. It analyses the domestic this specialised field entails. Areas covered You will benefit from a strong programme of and international frameworks, together with include the fundamental principles relating to visiting speakers, excellent online materials key industry initiatives, in the field. You will documentary credits, the operation and legal and learning resources, top-quality instruction be exposed to a range of methods and best effect of the different types of documentary and a professional and practical focus in a practices followed in the business environment credit, their relationship with the sale contract, department with a strong research profile. to meet CSR needs. and the use of performance guarantees.

*Subject to approval

34 INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LLM 35 Protection of Commercial Industrial Property “The University and the course definitely lived Rights (Intellectual Property) “The lecturers were very helpful and up to my expectations. The way that lectures You will develop your knowledge of commercial cooperative, they patiently and thoroughly and seminars were delivered, the interactive industrial property/intellectual property law, provided explanations of any contentious classes, the wealth of social and educational combined with an appreciation of how modern issues we raised. We all felt we were part of activities, the support for international intellectual property rights (IPR) operate in the a family where everyone was treated equally students, classmates from all over the world, international online environment. The module and our lecturers shared experiences gained teachers who were very enthusiastic about analyses commercial property rights in an through both academic and legal practice what they did and brought that enthusiasm international context, with a particular focus on which I found priceless for my understanding into the classroom – all these experiences challenges to IP in the new online environment. of commerical law in both common and made my University days exciting, both in Topics covered include copyright and fair use, civil systems.” terms of the knowledge I gained and the trademarks and domain names, patents and Oksana Polishchuk LLM people I met.” design rights, and confidentiality rights. International Commercial Law 2015 Lana Rukavina Research Theory and Practice International Commercial Law LLM This module is designed to prepare students for LLM Dissertation work. It introduces you to the general concepts of legal and social scientific (empirical) methods of research, and Legal Aspects of Electronic Commerce develops your understanding of the principles You will examine the legal and commercial of advanced research. You will consider the ASSOCIATED CAREERS RELATED COURSES framework for electronic commerce, and relevance of these methods for the study of the key aspects of the law of contract in that law, as well as giving you an understanding Former students have found employment • Corporate Finance Law LLM in accountancy, banking and finance, context. You will also study relevant English and of the legal, social scientific and philosophical • International and Commercial Dispute commodities, corporate and commercial law, EU legal provisions on aspects of electronic debates on methodology. It will also enable Resolution Law LLM commerce, including online data transmission, you to evaluate your own work and that of export-import, insurance, international and online marketing, electronic payments, other researchers. Finally you will work on your national trade and marketing bodies, copyright and domain name disputes. The Dissertation Proposal. international organisations, IT, shipping and module also looks at how current law could freight, tax, and the public sector. be applied to resolve difficulties thrown up by International Commercial Law students may electronic commerce and IT. also take up to three of the following taught modules from other LLM courses: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Multinational Corporate Entities • Foreign Direct Investment Arbitration You will typically be expected to have a This module will introduce you to the study • International Banking Law and Regulation minimum of a Second Class Honours (or of several facets of multinational corporate • International Commercial Arbitration equivalent) degree in Law or an equivalent non- entities. These include the role and effect of law degree and significant legal experience. multinational corporate entities in cross-border • International Energy and Climate You will also be considered without standard trade and investment, the power balance Change Law qualifications provided you can show you between multinationals and sovereign states, • International Law of the Sea are sufficiently motivated to study effectively and international and national approaches to • Private International Law – on a Masters programme and/or have had a control of multinationals. You will also consider Substantive Commercial significant amount of relevant experience. If the international and national consequences your first language is not English, you will need of incorporation of businesses, and the • One free choice LLM module from any other course. an IELTS score of 6.5 (including 6.0 in writing) accountability of the multinational personnel. or equivalent. If your IELTS score or equivalent Please note that option modules are subject is below 6.5 in one or more areas you may to student demand and staffing availability, be asked to take a pre-sessional English therefore not all modules may be offered in programme at Westminster before starting any one academic year. your course.

36 INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW LLM 37 INTERNATIONAL COURSE CONTENT “I’m so pleased I completed my course The course will enhance your understanding at Westminster; the teaching quality was LAW LLM* of the key principles of public international excellent, the teaching staff were leading law, the main developments within the public professionals in their field and dedicated

international law framework and the process to bringing out the best in the students, of globalisation and its significance for Length of course and the course content was well designed international law. and encouraged students to ‘think outside One year full-time or two years the box’.” part-time , September and January starts Claudia Scheufler Location CORE MODULES International Law LLM Central London (Regent) Dissertation The Dissertation module enables you to gain a Course fees and funding deep knowledge of the concepts and principles See westminster.ac.uk/fees of international law. You will need to agree the International Energy and Climate Change Law topic with the module leader, and it must not This module will introduce you to the principles Course Leader replicate materials covered in other areas of of international law relevant to the development Professor Marco Roscini your coursework, or comprise work submitted and use of energy resources. You will examine [email protected] for any other award. The Dissertation will the principles relating to permanent sovereignty help you to develop your powers of analysis, over natural resources, ‘shared’ resources and synthesis, application and evaluation, and your resources outside areas of national jurisdiction. This specialist international law course advanced research skills. It will also introduce You will also consider the impact of other provides an innovative focus on contemporary you to legal practical research skills and the principles of international law on the energy legal and political issues in the international range of specialist resources available for sector, such as international environmental law, community. With globalisation, international studying your chosen area. foreign investment and trade law, and human law is becoming increasingly important rights. The module has a strong focus on the and this course prepares you for your future Public International Law evolving international legal framework on the career in the international arena. Our LLM You will analyse the sources and subjects of mitigation of climate change, and its impact on attracts students from every nationality international law, state responsibility, and international energy law and policy. and background, not only those who have the implementation of international law into previously studied law, but also those with municipal law, and gain an overview of International Human Rights Law a degree in political science, international the defining legal principles of international The module introduces you to the protection of relations, economics or other relevant relations. You will also focus on the settlement human rights in international law. You will gain discipline. This creates a uniquely vibrant of international disputes and the enforcement an overview of the historical and philosophical and stimulating learning environment in of international law. The module will help background of human rights, and a greater which to study international Law. The LLM to develop your general transferable skills, understanding of the protection of human rights International Law is linked to the International including oral and written communication, at the international level though the UN and Law at Westminster Research Group. For more independent study, time management, research, regional systems (with particular emphasis information, please see westminster.ac.uk/ and problem solving. on Europe). You will also study contemporary international-law issues in international human rights law, such as humanitarian intervention, responsibility to OPTION MODULES protect, terrorism and torture. International and European Refugee Law This module focuses on the root causes of forced migration, the changing meaning of the term ‘refugee’, and its legal definition. You will examine the protection afforded to refugees in international law, the role of the UNHCR, and regional refugee protection regimes.

*Subject to approval

38 INTERNATIONAL LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law INTERNATIONAL LAW LLM 39 International Humanitarian Law This module covers the regulation of the rules “Coming from a background in languages, and customs of war, including the status and and working in the management consulting protection of prisoners of war, the protection field, I had worried about my inadequacy of civilian populations, the use of certain in this new field and my adaptability in weapons, the status of combatants and class. However, when classes commenced belligerents, and the criminal consequences these worries quickly went out the window. of the violations of the laws of armed I found that the course structure, lecturers, conflict. You will gain a deep knowledge of teaching styles and student body provided international humanitarian law, and a thorough for a truly invigorating and advanced understanding of practice and law relating learning atmosphere. The classes were very to key concepts, such as prisoners of war, international, comprising students from all combatants, protected persons, neutrality and over the world and equipped us with our war crimes. New forms of warfare, such as very own United Nations. We were all given cyber warfare and drones, are also addressed. an opportunity and encouraged to learn, share, participate and progress throughout International Law and Development the course, practicing the cardinal rule of You will study law and policy relating to sovereign equality of all class members.” international development, including the Chichi Umesi right to development in international law, International Law LLM international development assistance and poverty alleviation, and law and policy relating to overseas development assistance in the UK and the EU. The module will give you a greater understanding of the global challenges for Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes United Nations Law ENTRY REQUIREMENTS development, and will give you the skills to You will be introduced to the various techniques This module covers the institutional and legal undertake informed policy and advocacy and institutions available in international aspects of the United Nations. In particular, you You should hold a good Second Class Honours work internationally. law for resolving disputes between states. will focus on: the composition and functioning degree (or equivalent from a non-UK institution), This module examines diplomatic means of its main organs (Security Council, General with an average of 55 per cent or above in International Law of the Sea of dispute settlement, including negotiation Assembly, Secretariat, International Court of law, social science, international relations or a This module will introduce you to the and mediation, and legal means of dispute Justice, Economic and Social Council, Human related subject. Applicants who lack standard comprehensive legal framework of the settlement – arbitration and adjudication. You Rights Council); membership of the UN; the qualifications but have significant professional international law of the sea. You will examine will also consider the availability of alternative provisions of the Charter dealing with the use of experience in the relevant field or related the various maritime jurisdictional zones mechanisms for the resolution of inter-state armed force; the collective security system; and professional qualifications may be considered. recognised in international law, including disputes, and the range of international courts peacekeeping operations. If your first language is not English, you will principles relating to the territorial sea, and tribunals that now exist. The module need an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent. archipelagic waters, international straits, refers to specific past and pending cases and Please note that option modules are subject Please visit the International Law LLM course contiguous zone, continental shelf, exclusive disputes, and there will be a special emphasis to student demand and staffing availability, page on our website for more information on economic zone, high seas, and deep seabed. on the law, practice and procedure of the therefore not all modules will be offered in the the specific IELTS requirements westminster. The module also considers the resolution International Court of Justice. same academic year. ac.uk/law. The University offers pre-sessional of competing claims to maritime areas and summer programmes if you need to improve resources, and focuses on concerns arising Research Theory and Practice your English before starting your course. from human use of the oceans, such as This module introduces you to the general ASSOCIATED CAREERS maritime security and piracy, exploitation of concepts of legal and social scientific offshore resources, fisheries management, (empirical) methods of research, and develops On completion of the course, you will be able the conservation of marine biodiversity, and your understanding of the principles of to specialise in a wide range of careers or marine pollution. advanced research. You will consider the academia. Our gradutes have worked for relevance of these methods for the study of institutions such as the United Nations, non- law, as well as giving you an understanding governmental organisations (for instance, of the legal, social scientific and philosophical Amnesty International), the legal departments debates on methodology. It will also enable of governmental institutions, law firms, and you to evaluate your own work and that of professional services firms. There are also other researchers. opportunities for further research or teaching.

40 INTERNATIONAL LAW LLM westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law INTERNATIONAL LAW LLM 41 COURSE CONTENT LEGAL PRACTICE LLM Commercial Law (LEGAL PRACTICE Full-time This module will give you a broad working The full-time course begins with an intensive knowledge of the law and practice in this area, COURSE) foundation period which will introduce which relates to City practice and commercial you to the underlying areas of law and practice law practice in high street firms. It builds on such as Professional Conduct and Regulation, the commercial aspects of the Business Law Taxation, Financial Services, and Solicitors’ and Practice course, providing an additional Length of course Accounts. It also covers the course skills of range of knowledge about commercial law One year full-time or two years Writing, Drafting, Advocacy, Interviewing (including intellectual property). The practice part-time (evening) and Advising, and Practical Legal Research. of commercial law exists in an international You will go on to study the three Stage One and European Union (EU) context, and this is Location LPC core practice areas – Business Law and an area which is directed and changed, often Central London (Regent) Practice, Property Law and Practice, and Civil rapidly, under EU and international influences. and Criminal Litigation – together with Wills Increasingly, commercial clients (whether Course fees and funding and Administration of Estates. Stage Two of selling electronically or by traditional See westminster.ac.uk/fees the course involves completing three options marketing methods) see their home market (subject to availability) from the options subjects as being the EU. Course Leader list below. Martin Skirrow Commercial Litigation [email protected] Part-time You will focus on civil litigation within a The part-time (evening) course mirrors the commercial context, with an introduction to the full-time course in content and provides a subject and a study of alternatives to litigation. The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is regulated by convenient and affordable route to becoming Other issues covered during the module the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and is a solicitor. You study Property Law and Practice include arbitration, freezing injunctions, interim the compulsory vocational course for anyone and Civil and Criminal Litigation in Year One injunctions, search orders, security for costs, intending to practise law as a solicitor. (as part of Stage One of the course), together and specialist courts. You will also examine with one Stage Two option. You complete both the foreign element of commercial litigation, We have offered the LPC since its introduction Stages One and Two of the course in Year Two looking specifically at EU countries and EU in 1993 and have established a reputation for by studying Business Law and Practice, and judgements regulation. the quality of our teaching and assessment, Wills and Administration of Estates, together administration and individual attention that has with two further option modules. Commercial Property been valued by both students and examiners Commercial property is a vitally important alike. subject for students wishing to join firms that OPTION MODULES conduct property work and act for commercial Based on our equally strong reputation for Clinical clients. This module builds on your previous practitioner-oriented research, we are now This module gives you the opportunity to study of Property Law and Practice, focusing on excited to be offering you the opportunity to undertake real client legal work under the the disposal of interests in land in a commercial study both the LPC and a Masters Degree, an supervision of tutors working in the Westminster context, the main contents of a typical LLM in Legal Practice, as part of one award. Law School Student Law Clinic. You can commercial lease, and landlord and tenant There is also the option to take the LPC without choose to specialise in one of three ‘streams’ law. You will also study the key principles of the LLM should you wish to do this. of work – either housing, family or property. acquiring greenfield sites for development, the The focus is on experiential learning through secured lending principles when acting for a In order to be eligible for the award of the reflection, analysis and planning. You will prospective mortgage of development land, LLM, you will need to complete an 8,000 word discuss your learning experiences which will and the main issues when acting for property dissertation by way of addition to all of the then be recorded in experiential learning log dealers who buy and sell reversions occupied LPC Stage One subjects and skills and three sheets and your work will also be subject to by business tenants. Stage Two electives as currently required by the file review, which will measure the quality SRA. If you wish to progress to the dissertation of work you are undertaking. The aim of the you must demonstrate satisfactory progress module is to improve the substantive quality of on Stage One of the LPC in accordance with legal casework undertaken and to engender the Assessment Regulations and also pay the experiential professional learning within and University top-up fee. beyond this course.

42 LEGAL PRACTICE LLM (LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE) westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law LEGAL PRACTICE LLM (LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE) 43 Family Law and Practice GRADUATING WITH THE LLM “Westminster is a very forward-thinking Family is a special area of law and people “The quality of the teaching and the Social Research Methodology: Principles university which, on top of the outstanding need particular skills to work in this field. You approachability of the lecturers were the two and Practice and Dissertation in Legal teaching, offers numerous law fairs, career will learn about the role of the solicitor in main reasons I decided to stay at Westminster Practice Modules events, and student advisors to help with working with parties who may have to complete my Legal Practice Course. I have networking and applications. You are an important continuing relationship. You a great relationship with the staff – it is a While you are free to exit the LLM in Legal genuinely treated as an individual and given may work with very different types of firms really friendly team. Without the friendliness Practice with a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal the time and attention that you need to help depending on your interests – such as high and approachability of my lecturers and Practice (the LPC), if you wish to graduate you to succeed, both whilst at university and asset divorce, the high street mixture of divorce, tutors I would not have obtained a First Class with the LLM in Legal Practice in addition in the future.” children and finance, or care proceedings, Honours in LLB Law and a Distinction in the involving children at risk, for a local authority. LPC. The lecturers and tutors have really you may complete two additional modules Katie Sills The course starts by focusing on the emotional helped me reach my potential.” – the Research Methodology module and Legal Practice Postgraduate impact of being a family lawyer, and goes on subsequently the Dissertation module. After you Monsoor Malik Diploma (LPC), 2012 to cover children, divorce, domestic abuse, complete Stage One teaching and assessment, Legal Practice Postgraduate finance and public funding. in order to graduate with the award of Legal Internet and Social Media Diploma (LPC), 2013 Practice LLM, you need to: This module concentrates on the legal issues Housing Law and Practice • Attend a series of research-orientated arising from web presence and online trading. Housing law is quite a specialist practice seminars You will consider a range of topics, including area and concerns rented, rather than owner- • Formulate a research question and the legal status of websites, the information occupied housing, but still affects many people. Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Practice methodology and then complete an 8,000 websites must give to customers, who owns the Many high street housing lawyers have public The aim of this module is to give you an word dissertation on an area of legal rights to websites, and where e-traders can be funding contracts and also do welfare benefits introduction to personal injury and clinical practice of interest that you have encountered sued. You will look at and apply the relevant work. Other housing lawyers work for local negligence litigation, by building on the in stages One or Two or the LPC. Progression law to real-life situations on live websites. The authorities or firms that advise organisations knowledge you acquired during the Civil onto the Research and Dissertation modules small group sessions are case-study based, and such as housing associations. The main areas Litigation course. In the clinical negligence is subject to confirmation by the University’s in many cases students access and view trading of work involve advising and representing in part of the course there is more ‘law’ than Exam Board and is subject to payment of the websites during sessions and for private study landlord and tenant issues such as possession, you will have been used to on the LPC, to top-up fee. in order to advise the client. disrepair and harassment actions. Housing ensure that you understand the concepts of lawyers also help people enforce their tort law that are applied to the facts of any Employment statutory rights in the area of homelessness given case. The module is divided into two ASSOCIATED CAREERS You will study contentious and non-contentious and housing benefit. main parts: establishing liability for personal employment law, and examine individual injury in the workplace, and modern clinical The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is the compulsory vocational course for employment rights from the perspective of Immigration Law and Practice negligence litigation. intending solicitors. both employees and employers. Following an This module aims to give you a foundation to introduction to the key elements of employment understand the legal context of immigration Private Acquisitions law, you will look at a range of topics including and asylum law, and an understanding This module is concerned with two types discrimination, employment contracts, maternity of the processes and procedures used by of acquisition: the sale and purchase of a ENTRY REQUIREMENTS and parental rights, redundancy, termination of the administrative institutions regulating business as a going concern (a business The University requires a minimum of a Lower employment, transfer of undertakings, tribunal immigration. By the end of the course you will acquisition), and the sale and purchase of a Second Class Honours in a qualifying Law practice and procedure, and unfair dismissal. have studied the major legislative provisions private company by share transfer (a share degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification. governing immigration law, and have sufficient acquisition), in both cases from an unlisted Entertainment and Media knowledge to advise and assist clients in all company or private individuals. It will introduce Applications for the full-time LPC course must be The entertainment and media module entails the major areas of the subject. you to important aspects of practice as a made online at lawcabs.ac.uk study of law, contracts and practice across a commercial solicitor dealing with the sale and series of diverse industry sectors – advertising, If you take Immigration Law you can also purchase of private companies and businesses. For applications for the part-time LPC course, film, music, publishing and sport. You will look seek exemption from Level One of the Legal please contact the University directly: at the exploitation of relevant IP – particularly Service Commission’s Immigration and Asylum All modules are subject to tutor availability and T: +44 (0)20 7911 5017 copyright – through the creative industry sectors Accreditation Scheme. We are the only LPC student demand. E: [email protected] and will consider the impact of undue influence, provider currently authorised to recommend its restraint of trade and the rules for contracting students to the lSC for Level One exemption in with minors. The module also focuses on this way. Students seeking Level One exemption relevant media law – defamation, privacy through Westminster will need to pay an and contempt. Subject to availability, local additional fee. entertainment and media practitioners may also contribute to some of the teaching.

44 LEGAL PRACTICE LLM (LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE) westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law LEGAL PRACTICE LLM (LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE) 45 POSTGRADUATE ENGLISH OCCASIONAL STUDIES LANGUAGE PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT

PRE-SESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC Length of course Variable ENGLISH COURSES

Location International students who have been offered Central London (Regent) a place to study a postgraduate course at Course fees and funding Westminster, but who have not met the English language requirements, may also be offered a Variable. See westminster.ac.uk/fees place on one of our pre-sessional courses.

If you are an international student who has This is a highly flexible programme of studies met the English language requirements for if you do not wish to enrol on an LLM course your course, but would still like to study on initially. Most LLM modules can be taken on an one of our pre-sessional courses, you may also individual basis. You can study any particular apply to the admissions officers responsible module that you are interested in, up to a for your course. maximum of 40 credits, as long as you meet the minimum entry requirements for the course To be admitted onto either the seven-week or hosting that module. This is ideal for you if, 12-week course, you will need to meet Academic English modules for various reasons, you are unable to attend minimum English language criteria; full details Our Academic English modules have been the full LLM course. For example, if you wish of entry requirements can be found on our designed to allow you to consolidate, extend to study Law of International Sales but cannot website, at westminster.ac.uk/pre-sessional- and develop your proficiency in Academic enrol for the full International Commercial english-courses English alongside your degree course. Law LLM because of work commitments, you Assessment of your level of proficiency in can sign up as an occasional student for that Once you have started your degree, our Academic English will take place during module and attend class. Westminster Professional Language Centre can orientation week and learning week one (exact offer you further language skills support through dates and time-slots will be circulated in early our Academic English modules. September or early January, depending on your course start date). This will determine whether Pre-sessional English you will benefit from taking one of the modules. Our pre-sessional English courses will help you develop the language, literacy, and study For more information visit skills necessary for academic life on your westminster.ac.uk/pre-sessional-english-courses postgraduate course. You will also experience student life through our social and welcome programmes. Our aim is to provide you with a solid foundation in the use of Academic English orally and in writing for when you start your degree course, and to give you the skills, knowledge and experience to make the most of your time at university.

46 POSTGRADUATE OCCASIONAL STUDIES PROGRAMME westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 47 RESEARCH AT WESTMINSTER LAW SCHOOL

In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework we submitted the work of 21 of our staff; just over 50 per cent of the School’s research was judged to be of 4* or 3* quality (world leading or international excellence). This reflects the extraordinary growth in the research profile of Westminster Law School over the last 20 years.

A key component of our reputation for quality research and our dynamic research environment is the strength of our research degree students; they are encouraged to organise events, lead workshops, publish and generally be active academic members. There is a rigorous and comprehensive training programme across the Faculty, specifically catering for graduate study. A mentoring system supports our students, and annual research gatherings and outings to institutions such as Cumberland Lodge make for a vibrant research community.

48 westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law RESEARCH 49 RESEARCH CENTRES Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Group AND GROUPS Founded in 2004, this Centre involves a partnership between the law schools at the universities of Kent at Canterbury – the main Centre on the Legal Profession physical base for the centre – Keele and Westminster Law School has been at the Westminster. The overall aim of CentreLGS is forefront of research into the legal profession to pioneer work that analyses, investigates and related areas. This group builds on the and deepens understanding of the relationship School’s strongest bodies of research in the between law, gender and sexuality. legal profession, access to justice, dispute westminster.ac.uk/law-gender-and-sexuality resolution, globalisation, legal ethics and legal education. Funders include the ACCA, the Westminster Law and Theory Lab ACLEC, the ESRC, The Law Society and the This Centre brings together diverse yet Nuffield Foundation. overlapping strands in the study of law, with a westminster.ac.uk/centre-on-the-legal-profession strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and critical theoretical analysis. The Centre focuses on the Centre for the Study of Law, Society and link between the applied and the theoretical, Popular Culture as it seeks to facilitate common scholarly Founded in 1996, the Centre for Law, Society activities and projects, and provide the sort of and Popular Culture draws together many supportive context within which radical new of the threads of work that go on in the research can flourish. Drawing on our strengths Westminster Law School and beyond. It has in international law, governance, criminology, RESEARCH APPROACH PhD opportunities an established reputation, both professionally economics, human rights and legal theory, Our research programmes and centres produce and academically, and covers areas such as the Centre encourages collaboration both at a We offer both MPhil and PhD research degrees a wide range of work within core areas of law, music, sport, film and the media among others. national and international level, through public in Law and law-related topics, with training and including Criminal and Comparative Law; EU Activities of the Centre include organising the guest lectures, open fora such as conferences, supervision in these two research degrees on Law and Competition Law; International Law; Theory Meets Practice Seminar Series and workshops and seminars, internships, guest both a full-time and part-time basis. Normally, Human Rights; Refugee and Migration Law; co-ordinating the Entertainment and Sports invitations, and online publications. you are expected to study for a period of at Legal Profession and Ethics; Entertainment, Law Journal. Recently the Centre curated the westminster.ac.uk/westminster-law-and-theory-lab least 33 months (or 45 months in the case of Media and Intellectual Property Law; Classified Exhibition in conjunction with the part-time enrolment), and to have completed International Trade Law; Public Law; Maritime British Board of Film Classification and a series your doctoral research within a maximum of and Transport Law and Commercial, Banking of seminars on football agents and match fixing four years (eight years if part-time). The PhD and Corporate Law. We also produce work in football. Members of the Centre have received programme is administered by the Graduate within interdisciplinary fields, such as Law research funding from bodies such as The Socio- Centre in Westminster Law School. Supervisors and Geography; Law and Literature; Law and Legal Studies Association, Institute for Alcohol are allocated to students, and the School Philosophy; Law and Society; Law, Gender Studies, the Musicians Union, ESRC and TSB. oversees their supervision and monitors their and Sexuality, and many others. We welcome westminster.ac.uk/law-society-and-popular-culture progress. In all cases students have more than applications from prospective research students one supervisor and this team may include who are interested in any aspect of law and International Law at Westminster experts from other institutions. Research students legal institutions, and we particularly encourage The International Law at Westminster Research are assured of regular supervision. interdisciplinary and critical approaches. From Group conduct research in many areas of time to time, the School will also offer PhD international legal scholarship, including: Research students have their own dedicated studentships to highly qualified applicants. international legal theory, international office space with computing and telephone More information is available at human rights law, the law of armed conflict, facilities and a community area. A research westminster.ac.uk/research-degrees-law international law of the sea, international seminar series is run weekly for all staff and refugee law, international courts and tribunals, researchers during term time; this is devoted international energy law, United Nations to speakers from both within and outside the law, international criminal law, nuclear non- University. Research students are strongly proliferation law, cyber security law, and encouraged to attend. In addition, a research international environmental law. International methodology seminar series specifically for Law at Westminster also organises public events graduate research students runs throughout the on topical issues. year. Where possible we attempt to involve westminster.ac.uk/international-law research students in teaching. This enables them to graduate with a rounded portfolio of skills.

50 RESEARCH westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law RESEARCH 51 Course structure for MPhil/PhDs HOW TO APPLY You will usually first enrol as an MPhil/PhD student. You will then be required to pass a The University of Westminster accepts formal interview (with an independent assessor) applications through the national, online UK about half way through your course of study Postgraduate Application and Statistical Service before you can transfer to full PhD student status. (UKPASS) system. Once you have registered Thereafter the progress of all research students you can apply free of charge. is formally monitored through annual reviews. Only in exceptional situations (usually when an Our research interests are listed on our applicant already has an MPhil degree) can website westminster.ac.uk/research-degrees- students register directly for PhD study. law. Alternatively, candidates may direct initial enquiries to Dr Stephanie Roberts, Once admitted as a PhD student, you will have the admission tutor, or Professor Andreas a supervisory team with a Director of Studies. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, the Westminster We provide a research training programme Law School PhD programme coordinator. which you will take alongside your own research activities. The PhD is assessed by The admissions timetable is available at the submission of a thesis and a viva voce westminster.ac.uk/research-degrees-law examination by a panel that includes an external examiner. For more information and to apply visit westminster.ac.uk/courses/research-degrees/ Entry requirements for MPhil/PhDs research-areas/law/how-to-apply You should normally hold an Upper Second Class Honours degree and a Masters degree If you are suitably qualified and we can offer with Merit or Distinction. You should also supervision in your chosen area, you will have achieved 65 per cent or above in your need to attend a formal interview; telephone Masters dissertation. An applicant from outside interviews may be arranged if you are the UK should also demonstrate evidence of based abroad. appropriate English language proficiency, normally defined as 7.0 in IELTS. If you have any enquiries regarding the admission process you can contact our Research Office team on +44 (0)20 7911 5731 or email [email protected]

52 RESEARCH westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER 53 From our prime locations across three large and anticipate developments in professional life. During your time at Westminster you will have ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY campuses in London’s West End, we are We aim to help you develop both the knowledge access to our comprehensive online vacancy OF WESTMINSTER well connected to the UK’s major centres of and the life skills you will need to succeed in an service, where you will find internal and business, law, science and architecture. Our increasingly international workplace. external career opportunities. Our students For more than 175 years the University fourth campus in Harrow is a hub for the study are invited to a series of careers events of Westminster has been a vibrant and of media, arts and design, with its own on-site Careers and employability throughout the year, which will provide you creative place for learning, where students student village. Whilst studying a postgraduate degree at with access to a wide variety of employment have enjoyed a dynamic professional and the University of Westminster, you will not and networking opportunities to boost your educational environment, graduating with Westminster Law School is based at Little only acquire an in-depth knowledge and professional prospects. the skills they need to succeed in their Titchfield Street, part of our Regent Campus. understanding of the subject you have chosen, chosen career. In the heart of London’s West End, the Little you will also develop beneficial transferable Postgraduate students can also benefit from Titchfield Street site has benefited from major skills related, for example, to research and Westminster’s mentoring scheme. Mentoring As an international centre for learning and refurbishment in the past few years, with a new analysis, communication, organising and is a long-term relationship that meets a research, we are committed to continuing 380-seat central lecture theatre, new café area prioritising, and logical and critical thinking. developmental need, and your mentor will those traditions. We pride ourselves on our and improved library facilities all part of a facilitate your personal and professional record of excellence in research that makes recently completed £3.5m project. Our dedicated Career Development Centre growth by sharing knowledge and insights, a difference – to academia, to the professions, works with an ever-expanding network of over to help you to succeed. to business, to industry. Westminster has led Westminster has more than 950 full-time 3,000 employers, to provide students with the way – nationally and internationally – in teaching staff supported by a large number exceptional careers support and guidance. research in architecture, art, and media and of visiting subject specialists, delivering high- communications,politics, allied health and quality learning and research. Our libraries biomedical sciences. The Research Excellence provide access to more than 380,000 titles, Framework (REF) 2014 confirmed our world 30,000 e-journals, 20,000 e-books and 230 leading positions in Art and design and Media databases; the libraries at all four of our and communications and internationally campuses are open 24 hours a day, seven days excellent (3*) performances in English, a week, during the majority of term time. Architecture and built environment and Allied health; all five units having more than 65 per Based in the heart of one of the world’s cent of research activity assessed as 4* and greatest cities, our close links with industry 3*. Additionally, Psychology and neuroscience, and professional organisations in London, Politics, Area studies, and Law were across the UK and all over the world enable acknowledged for their excellence, with the us to attract the highest quality guest speakers majority of their research being of 3* or above. and lecturers, and provide you with extensive networking opportunities and introductions to Our Graduate School, launched in 2012/13, many of the world’s leading companies. More is a dynamic ‘hub’ and cross-university focus than 50 separate professional bodies offer for all staff and doctoral researchers engaged accreditation, approval or recognition of our in research activity. The School supports the courses, or membership for our graduates. personal and professional development of doctoral and early career researchers through Our extensive network of tutors, administrators, a range of activities, including seminars counsellors, health service professionals, and networking events to facilitate sharing financial consultants and faith advisers is of best practice. there to support you in every aspect of your life at Westminster. Each year a diverse mix of students of many backgrounds and abilities join the Westminster Studying for a postgraduate degree is family. We have more than 20,000 students a challenging but extremely rewarding from over 150 nations (a quarter of whom experience. You will develop specialist are postgraduates) studying with us. We also knowledge, hone your professional skills, and have extensive connections with universities enhance your career prospects. To help you and industries throughout the world benefitting achieve your aims, we offer a mature study our students. environment, dedicated postgraduate facilities and a broad range of courses that respond to

54 ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER 55 English language support during your studies LIVING AND STUDYING AN INTERNATIONAL The Westminster Professional Language IN LONDON EXPERIENCE Centre provides in-sessional Academic English courses during your studies with us. The modules have been designed to allow London is one of the world’s most exciting With one of the UK’s largest international you to consolidate, extend and develop cities. From business and finance to fashion, student populations, the University of your proficiency in Academic English at art, music, cinema and sport, London is where Westminster has plenty of experience in giving postgraduate or doctoral level. For more things tend to happen first. And as one of the you the help and support you need to make information visit westminster.ac.uk/efl city’s 400,000 students, much of what happens the most of your time with us. Before you arrive, in the capital is within your reach. you will receive a full information pack with Pre-sessional English details of your enrolment, healthcare and other Our pre-sessional English courses will help you Importantly, making the most of London doesn’t information. We also provide a ‘meet and to develop the language and study skills you have to be expensive. With substantial student greet’ service for students landing at Heathrow need to join a full-time postgraduate degree discounts and many of the city’s attractions Airport on specific days in September. at Westminster. The courses are designed for being free, you’ll always find ways to make Culture and entertainment Our team will meet you at the airport, and students with an IELTS score of 0.5 or 1.0 IELTS your money go further. Despite the size of London is home to more than 250 art and arrange transport for you to travel with other points below the required level for your chosen the city, travel is usually straightforward with design galleries, such as the Tate Modern, international students to your halls of residence postgraduate programme. We run 12-week and good underground, bus (including night buses) Tate Britain and National Gallery, over 600 or private accommodation. seven-week pre-sessional courses for academic and train networks, and student discounts cinema screens – including Westminster’s courses; successful completion allows you to are available on Transport for London (TfL) very own Regent Street Cinema and 200-plus Once you are here, we can give you progress to your Masters course starting in travelcards. London is well connected by rail and theatres. The city also boasts a particularly comprehensive help and assistance including September and January. You can find more road to the rest of the UK and Europe, and there vibrant music scene, ranging from rock, dance a whole range of services and activities to information online at westminster.ac.uk/pre- are global air links through the city’s five major and pop, to world and classical music, a help you settle in. The International Students’ sessional-english-courses airports. The University of Westminster’s central level of variety matched by London’s exciting Welcome Programme gives you the chance London campuses are within easy reach of many nightlife. And there is no shortage of places for to meet fellow new students and Westminster Postgraduate Semester Study Abroad Programme famous landmarks and institutions including the socialising and dining out – with world cuisines staff, find your way around the University If you are a current postgraduate studying a Houses of Parliament, the BBC, the London represented at prices to suit everyone you can and London, learn about our facilities and masters at an overseas institution you can join Stock Exchange and the British Museum. eat out for as little as £5. services, and meet current international our Semester Postgraduate Study Abroad and students. For more information visit choose to study from a range of modules or The University is also ideally located to network If your passion is for fashion and shopping westminster.ac.uk/international combine study with an internship. You can with the city’s business leaders and employers, rather than traditional culture, London is home transfer these credits to your home degree and so we can offer great placements and work to designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Stella Meet us in your country embed an international experience in your opportunities for our students through contacts McCartney and Burberry. Oxford Street, the top University staff frequently travel overseas graduate programme of studies to enhance with our Careers Development Centre. Career spot for high street fashion, is on the doorstep to meet and advise potential students at your global learning and future employability. opportunities in the capital are exceptional, of our Regent campus, and the city is famous exhibitions, partner institutions, alumni with more than one million private sector for its markets including Portobello Road, receptions and other events. We also work For more information on all the opportunities businesses and public sector organisations Camden and Spitalfields. with representatives around the world who can open to you visit westminster.ac.uk/pg-sa operating within 20 miles of the University of help you with your application to Westminster. Westminster. And with the British Library, the Football, rugby, cricket and tennis are among Visit westminster.ac.uk/international to University of London Library and the archives the sports that feature high on London’s leisure see our calendar of visits and the overseas of many institutions and professional bodies scene, at legendary venues such as Wembley, representatives we work with. all close at hand, there is a huge variety of Twickenham, Lords and Wimbledon. But if you reference books and information to help you prefer your leisure activities to be more relaxed, Student visas with your studies. London is a city of more than 140 parks; 39 If you are a non-EU EEA passport per cent of the city is green space. holder you will need to check your visa requirements for study in the UK, by If you are wondering what it would be like to visiting gov.uk/visas-immigration study in London, visit www.thestudentroom. co.uk/London to get first-hand information about all the opportunities London students can benefit from. University of Westminster ranked among top 100 most international universities in the world (THE, 2016)

56 LIVING AND STUDYING IN LONDON westminster.ac.uk/law westminster.ac.uk/law AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE 57 • English language competency judged STUDYING AT sufficient to undertake advanced level study. WESTMINSTER Please visit: westminster.ac.uk/international/ study-for-a-full-degree/english-language- requirements for further details.

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O N E N R G R E E R T E E S T V D T B A K A R S E N C W S L House T R E T E E R N A O H A S T P E N E R T I H E N A T R O D M A R E T R E L Rathbone D R R E T T T T E STR E E L E E P I E R Charlotte E T T Hotel G T W EBLC K L In north west London, Harrow Campus is just 20 T Y University of C S A G R R R H W E L L S Street P C E E A R T S H F M T H B L A Westminster E I St. Marylebone I T T T A T Hotel T E R O N British Dental Queen’s O N C L O N EE High Commission of P O S T M E C of E School D R minutes by Tube from central London, and close E T R W E E Association College E B S S the Republic of Namibia R TL S S T R E E S Embassy E M E CY T RE T T T T R R B LA N R A DFOR R D S T 3 N PE of Algeria N R E E A E E T E T to Harrow town centre. 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