LLM Compliance and Regulation
This LLM focuses on the legal and practical issues involved in compliance and regulation. It examines how regulatory systems operate, how organisations manage their obligations, and how enforcement, accountability and ethics affect regulated activity. It may suit graduates interested in compliance, risk, financial services or regulation across national and international settings.
About this course
The LLM Compliance and Regulation examines how rules are created, applied and enforced across regulated sectors. It considers regulatory frameworks alongside the legal, economic and political factors that shape them, with attention to risk regulation, standard setting, accountability and legitimacy.
You will explore compliance and enforcement strategies, multi-level and transnational regulation, and how organisations respond to regulatory duties, ethics and whistleblowing. Optional legal subjects include insurance law, international energy law, environmental law, and data protection and intellectual property.
The course also develops legal research skills and includes a dissertation in compliance and regulation. It is available full-time, part-time and online, which may suit graduates balancing study with work or other commitments.
What you will study
Core areas include:
• Key Principles of the English Legal System • Compliance and Regulation • Research Methods Training • Dissertation in Compliance and Regulation
You will also study legal topics including insurance law, international energy law, environmental law, and data protection and intellectual property.
Themes across the course include regulatory frameworks; the relationship between regulation, law, economics and politics; regulation of risk; standard setting; enforcement and compliance strategies; accountability; multi-level governance; transnational regulation; corporate ethics; whistleblowing; and legal technology.
Modules
Terms 1 & 2 (full-time) or 1-4 (part-time)
- Key Principles of the English Legal System
- Compliance and Regulation (core)
- Research Methods Training (core)
- Insurance Law (optional)
- International Energy Law (optional)
- Environmental Law (optional)
- Data Protection and Intellectual Property (optional)
Term 3 (full-time) or 5 & 6 (part-time)
- Dissertation in Compliance and Regulation (core)
Assessment
Assessment is through written examinations, coursework and a thesis.
Entry requirements
A minimum second-class honours degree is required.
Careers
This course may support progression into compliance, regulation and risk-related roles across banking, insurance, wealth and asset management, and the wider financial services sector.
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