International Trade Law – (LL.M.)

The course is designed for law graduates from anywhere in the world who wish to develop a specialist knowledge of the increasingly important field of international trade law and international economic law and related areas. Such specialist knowledge is increasingly sought by law firms, businesses and governmental bodies all over the world, in response to the expansion of international trade and commerce and international regulation, resulting from economic, political and technological change.

The School has an excellent record in Research and in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise Law was awarded the highest possible grade of 5A.

Law at Brunel University is a well established law school, highly rated for its published scholarship, and well known amongst law firms for its distinctice undergraduate sandwich courses. It has recently been through the University's periodic review, which is designed to ensure that high standards of teaching are maintained. The school has considerable expertise in various aspects of international trade law and European and international trade law.

The teaching will usually take the form of seminar classes, involving discussion of prepared reading, supplemented by lecturing from the module teacher to introduce and consolidate the discussion. For each module you will be assessed twice, first by way of a written essay and then by way of a "seen" or "pre-release" examination, when the question paper is released a short time before the day of the exam. Each assessment is worth 50% of the overall mark.