The taught modules available to SIL students vary from year to year. Please check the list below for details of the modules available in the academic year commencing September 2013. We make every effort to ensure that every module will be offered as listed below, but modules are subject to change or cancellation.You are therefore advised to check this site regularly for further updates throughout the year preceeding entry to the SIL programme.
SIL students from the University of Texas and Boston University may follow 5 or 6 modules. Students from Cornell Law School are required to follow 5 modules, and those from the University of Michigan must follow 4 or 5 as advised by their home university.
Click on the module titles below to view a full module summary for the academic year commencing September 2013. Where module summaries are not available these will be updated over the next months, so keep checking this site for updates.
A provisional timetable will be made available.
| Module Title |
Module Code |
Available to SIL in 2013 |
| Advanced Issues in Family Law: Globalisation, Multiculturalism and Religion |
LAWSG155 |
YES |
| Alternative
Dispute Resolution |
LAWSG094 |
YES |
| Banking
Law |
LAWSG032 |
YES |
| Carriage
of Goods by Sea |
LAWSG093 |
YES |
| Children
and their Rights |
LAWSG037 |
YES |
| Commercialisation
of Intellectual Property, The |
LAWSG062 |
NO |
| Company
Law |
LAWSG040 |
YES |
| Comparative Constitutional Law |
LAWSG128 |
YES |
| Comparative
Contract Law |
LAWSG072 |
YES |
| Comparative Human Rights Law I |
LAWSG068A |
YES |
Competition
Law and Intellectual Property Rights |
LAWSG158 |
YES |
| Competition Law Enforcement in Europe |
LAWSG045 |
NO |
| Compliance, Risk and Regulation |
COMPGF03 |
NO |
| Constitutional
and Institutional Law of the EU |
LAWSG008 |
YES |
| Constitutional Theory |
LAWSG139 |
NO |
| Copyright and Designs, The Law of |
LAWSG066 |
YES |
| Corporate Finance |
LAWSG103 |
YES |
| Corporate Governance in the UK and US |
LAWSG120 |
YES |
| Corporate Insolvency I: Liquidation and its Consquences |
LAWSG090 |
YES |
| Corporate Social Responsibility: An International Perspective |
LAWSG130 |
NO |
| Criminal Process and Human Rights |
LAWSG154 |
YES |
| Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions |
LAWSG077 |
NO |
| Economic Analysis of Law |
LAWSG111 |
YES |
| Economics in Competition Law and Practice, The Role of |
LAWSG102 |
TBC |
| Environmental
Governance and Regulation |
LAWSG004 |
YES |
| EU
Administrative Law |
LAWSG067 |
TBC |
| EU Competition Law |
LAWSG015 |
YES |
| European Labour Rights in an International Context |
LAWSG119 |
YES |
| Foundations and Principles of International Law |
LAWSG151 |
TBC |
| Foundations of EU Environmental Law and Policy |
LAWSG005 |
YES |
| Gender,
Law and the State: Current Legal Issues |
LAWSG027 |
YES |
| Historical Development of the Common Law, The |
LAWSG148 |
YES |
| Human Rights in Europe I: Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) |
LAWSG152A |
YES |
| Insurance
Law (excluding Marine Insurance) |
LAWSG041 |
TBC |
| International and Commercial Trusts Law |
LAWSG134 |
TBC |
| International
and Comparative Law of Trade Marks, Designs and Unfair Competition |
LAWSG064 |
YES |
| International
and Comparative Secured Transactions |
LAWSG101 |
TBC |
| International and European Refugee Law |
LAWSG122 |
YES |
| International Commercial Arbitration |
LAWSG069 |
YES |
| International Commerical Litigation |
LAWSG022 |
YES |
| International Criminal Law |
LAWSG085 |
TBC |
| International Energy Law |
LAWSG086 |
YES |
| International Environmental Law |
LAWSG028 |
TBC |
| International Human Rights Law |
LAWSG030 |
YES |
| International Insolvency Law |
LAWSG150 |
YES |
| International
Law of Foreign Investment |
LAWSG088 |
TBC |
| International Law of the Sea |
LAWSG107 |
TBC |
| International
Trade Law |
LAWSG050 |
YES |
| Japanese
Commercial Law: Corporate and Business Environment |
LAWSG096 |
TBC |
| Jeremy
Bentham and the Utilitarian Tradition A |
LAWSG021A |
YES |
| Judges, Courts and Judicial Decision-Making A |
LAWSG132A |
YES |
| Judicial
Review |
LAWSG117 |
YES |
| Jurisprudence
and Legal Theory I |
LAWSG025A |
TBC |
| Law and Policy of Climate Change |
LAWSG153 |
YES |
| Law
and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals |
LAWSG076 |
NO |
| Law and Governance of Global Health |
LAWSG142 |
NO |
| Law in the Real World: An Introduction to the Empirical Study of Law |
LAWSG104 |
TBC |
| Legal
Aspects of International Finance |
LAWSG033 |
YES |
| Marine
Insurance Law |
LAWSG092 |
YES |
| Media Law: Libel and Privacy |
LAWSG143 |
TBC |
| Media Regulation, Principles of |
LAWSG144 |
NO |
| Modern Advocacy and Classical Rhetoric |
LAWSG136 |
TBC |
| Principles of Civil Justice |
LAWSG160 |
NO |
| Prison: Ideology, Policy and Law |
LAWSG083 |
YES |
| Regulation and Tort |
LAWSG145 |
TBC |
| Regulation of Financial Markets |
LAWSG080 |
TBC |
| Religion, State and Law |
LAWSG161 |
YES |
| Restituition of Unjust Enrichment |
LAWSG108 |
YES |
| Russian
Commercial Law |
LAWSG089 |
TBC |
| Sectoral EU Environmental Law and Policy |
LAWSG006 |
NO |
| Sustainability and Environmental Justice |
LAWSG003 |
NO |
| Taxation, Trusts and Planning - new module |
tbc |
TBC |
| Technology
and Intellectual Property Law |
LAWSG065 |
NO |
| Trade Marks and Brands, The Law of |
LAWSG063 |
YES |
| US
Antitrust Law and EU Competition Law: A Comparative Perspective |
LAWSG098 |
YES |
| War Law I: Recourse to Force in International Law |
LAWSG056A |
YES |
| World Trade Organisation and Trade Linkages in the World Trade Organisation, The |
LAWSG013 |
YES |
Please note that this list is for Semester in London students only. A full list of modules available for LLM or other UCL Taught Masters students can be found here.
