School of Social Sciences

International Financial Law LLM

Year of entry: 2026

Course length: 12 months Full-Time

About the course

Today’s financial market is changing at a rapid pace. The need for highly skilled legal professionals within global banking operations, capital markets, and the booming fintech industry is becoming increasingly important.

Our LLM International Financial Law course will give you critical insights into specialist areas of international financial law, including major regulatory and transactional issues in international financial and banking law.

You’ll be taught by experts with active experience in the legal field and beyond, including academics who advise financial regulators and leading law firms.

Throughout your studies, you'll benefit from opportunities to practice and develop your skills, giving you expertise within the subject, and transferable strengths suitable for a range of other careers.

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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 Lord Stephens, current Justice of the UK Supreme Court

Graduate from one of the UK’s most targeted universities by top employers with the skills needed for a meaningful career

(High Fliers, The Graduate Marker Report 2025)

Compulsory Units

The Regulation of International Finance;
International Law and Practice of Securities Markets;
LLM Dissertation.

Optional Units

Academic Skills for Legal Studies;
International Banking Law;
Transnational Corporate and 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 2024/25 and are subject to change.

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Where will your course take you?

Employers are in increasing need of graduates with unparalleled expertise on legal issues of global financial regulation. Our courses allow you to develop a variety of both subject-specific and transferable skills suited to a wide variety of roles, such as critical thinking, legal analysis, 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 graduates also continue their research by studying a PhD in Law, 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 Graduate

“I'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.“

Titilope Babafunso

International Financial Law LLM Graduate

“The 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.“