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International Financial Law LLM

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time

About the course

Apply your skills to a fast-paced and high-profile field where you'll be indispensable to leading companies and financial institutions and play an important role in transparency and public confidence.

You'll gain a deeper understanding of this complex and evolving subject through a balance of theory and practice and get critical insights into the different specialist areas of financial law.

Our experts will introduce you to the major regulatory and transactional issues in international financial and banking law, preparing you for exciting developments in your career.

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Benefit from our first-class facilities, including a purpose-built moot court where you can practically develop your skills

Join a university with a strong heritage of providing legal education since 1872, including graduates such as Dame Christabel Pankhurst

Our graduates are among the most targeted by top UK employers

(High Fliers 2024)

Compulsory Units

  • The Regulation of International Finance
  • International Law and Practice of Securities Markets
  • LL.M Dissertation

Optional Units

  • Academic Skills for Legal Studies
  • International Banking Law
  • Transnational Corporate & Capital Markets Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • The Principles and Practice of Corporate Governance
  • International Investment Law
  • International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Law

These are examples of units offered in 2023/24 and are subject to change.

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Where will your degree take you?

The demand for graduates able to respond to rapidly evolving developments in finance law continues to grow worldwide. Our degrees allow you to develop a variety of both subject-specific and transferable skills suited to a wide variety of roles, such as legal analysis, reasoning skills, research, problem-solving and communication.

Most of our recent graduates have gone on to work with leading organisations in banking, insurance, wealth and asset management, compliance, regulation, government, charities, and at top universities, with job titles such as Banking Paralegal, Compliance Officer, Financial Accountant, Legal Counsel FinTech, and Researcher.

Many of our graduates choose to go on to research degrees (PhD), either at Manchester or at another leading university, where they expand the boundaries of our knowledge and pursue careers in research or academia.

Fiona Lakareber

International Financial Law LLM

β€œI'm hoping to use the knowledge I acquired during my master's to make a difference in the way banks are managed and how they go about their affairs.β€œ

Titilope Babafunso

International Financial Law LLM

β€œThe University of Manchester Law School is one of the few universities that offers International Financial Law as an independent course both dealing with the trends in the international financial law and financial services regulation.

I love the teaching technique which combines lectures with seminars for a more rounded experience. I particularly love the enthusiasm of the lecturers which is quite contagious as well as their willingness to help whenever they can.

I really value the careers advice, which includes CV clinic and the Career Service.β€œ

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School of Social Sciences

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The University of Manchester