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| Application Deadline: | None - rolling admissions | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 11,620 - ≈ € 17,973 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 90 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of London School of Economics and Political Science
These programmes are based in the Department of Law and Department of Government. Both a Research as a taught track are offered.
Regulatory growth and reform, like privatisation, has been an international 'policy boom' in recent years. Governments have increasingly used regulation in preference to other policy instruments. Regulation therefore plays a central role in the contemporary understanding of law and public policy. As a field of study, regulation requires a multi-disciplinary approach, because legal, political and economic issues are intertwined and each has to be understood to make sense of the overall process.
The MSc Regulation is a truly interdisciplinary programme. You take a core seminar on Law and Politics of Regulation and then have the opportunity to specialise through your choice of options and your dissertation topic. If you take two full courses (or equivalent) or either a full course and a dissertation in one of the specialisms listed below, you may have this specialism included in your degree title, for example, MSc Regulation (Environmental Regulation).
Our distinctive approach concentrates on institutional issues and behaviour in regulation - regulatory bureaucracies, interest groups, legislators and courts - in addition to the economic aspects of regulation. We aim to bring together the contrasting North American and European perspectives on regulation, and to juxtapose experience of regulatory practice with theoretical ideas about how regulation works.
Contents
Compulsory courses
* Law and Politics of Regulation
* Foundations of Social Research (Research track only)
* Dissertation
Options
(* half unit)
Choose the equivalent of two full units from the following (one unit for the Research track):
Environmental Regulation
* Environmental Problems, Politics and Development*
* Global Environmental Governance*
* Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy
* Concepts in Environmental Regulation*
* International Political Economy of the Environment
* International and European Environmental Law
* Science, Technology and Resistance*
* Issues in Environmental Governance*
Finance and Commercial Regulation
* Management Accounting, Decisions and Control* or Principles of Finance
* Legal Regulation of Information Technology
* Regulation of Financial Markets
* Regulation, Risk and Economic Life
* European Monetary and Financial Services Law
* Corporate and Financial Crime
Social Regulation
* Anthropology of Politics* or Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation* or Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange* or Law in Society: a Joint Course in Anthropology and Law*
* Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives*
* Policing and Police Powers
* Criminal Justice Policy
* European Social Policy
Utilities Regulation
* Network Regulation*
* Media and Communications Regulation*
* New Media Regulation*
* Competition Law
* EU State Aid Law*
Government and Law
* Law and Governance of the Single European Market
* Comparative Public Policy Change*
* Political Science and Political Economy: Introduction*
* Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics*
* Public Management Theory and Doctrine*
* Behavioural Public Policy*
* Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
* Law and Social Theory
* Modern Legal History
* Corporate and Financial Crime
* Law of International Economic and Financial Sanctions*
* Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach*
* You may also take a course from another programme by special permission from your supervisor and the course convener.
Note that not all the options will be available every year, and some may only be available with permission of the course proprietor.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
You should usually have achieved a good upper second class honours degree or its equivalent and have an interest in, and experience of, related areas of law, public administration, politics or economics.
English requirement:
* TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum score of 627 in the paper test or 107 in the internet based test
* IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with a minimum score of 7.0
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 627 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 107 |
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