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Directors' duties, boards and modern compliance for legal professionals
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Corporate governance failures destroy value and public trust. This LLM equips lawyers, company secretaries, compliance officers and governance professionals with rigorous knowledge of directors' duties, board systems, financial services conduct regulation, ESG disclosure law and corporate investigations. Teaching combines doctrinal analysis with board case clinics and comparative governance systems. The dissertation enables specialisation — from financial crime to data governance or sustainability law.
Complements the LLM International Commercial Law for candidates focused on internal corporate control rather than cross-border commercial contracts. Practising professionals can study entirely online around full-time roles.
Faculty spotlight
Practising counsel and academic lawyers co-teach board clinics; financial regulation specialists lead conduct and financial crime modules.
Study online
Every programme can be completed fully online with zero tuition fees — study from anywhere in the world.
| Code | Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LLM501 | Directors' Duties & Corporate Personality Core company law doctrines for governance practice.
| 3 |
| LLM502 | Board Effectiveness, Transparency & Accountability How boards work and how accountability is enforced.
| 3 |
| LLM503 | Comparative Corporate Governance Systems Comparative study of governance models across jurisdictions.
| 3 |
| LLM504 | Legal Research Methods for Practitioners Research methods for LLM-level legal scholarship and practice papers.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LLM505 | Financial Services Regulation & Conduct Risk Conduct, markets and prudential interfaces for firms.
| 3 |
| LLM506 | ESG Governance, Disclosure & Sustainability Law Legal drivers of sustainability governance and disclosure.
| 3 |
| LLM507 | Anti-Bribery, Financial Crime & Investigations Bribery, money-laundering and investigation process design.
| 3 |
| LLM508 | Data Protection, Privacy & Technology Governance Data law and governance of digital systems at board level.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LLM601 | LLM Dissertation (Corporate Governance) Supervised research dissertation on a governance or compliance topic.
| 6 |
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