Cardiff School of Management LLM International Business (Finance)

Cardiff School of Management
Department of Business and
Management Studies
LLM International Business
(Finance)
Joining Pack
for
2014-2015 Academic Year
To understand global interconnectedness of economies, markets and industries within which
transnational corporations compete, an individual would require a high degree of knowledge
and understanding of the municipal, regional and international customs, practices and laws.
Such an individual would also require a certain set of communication skills to draft, present,
negotiate, moot and write in a disciplined way. LLM International Business programme
therefore aims to provide such knowledge and understanding as well as the skills to the
students through an advanced study and assessment of laws within subject areas and issues
that are rooted in the international business and management environment.
Key Dates (Academic Year 2014 – 2015)
Autumn Term (Michaelmas)
Intensive academic law
induction programme
(October 2014 cohort)
Formal Teaching
Start
Monday 22 September 2014
End
Friday 26 September 2014
Monday 29 September 2014
Friday 19 December 2014
Spring Term (Hilary)
Intensive academic law
induction programme
(January 2014 cohort)
Formal Teaching
Start
Monday 12 January 2015
End
Friday 16 January 2015
Monday 19 January 2015
Friday 27 March 2015
Summer Term (Trinity)
Formal Teaching (January
2015 cohort)
Start
Monday 27 April 2015
End
Friday 19 June 2015
Dissertations
Workshops and
supervision period
October 2014 cohort
January 2015 cohort
Start
End
Monday 20 April
2015
Monday 15 June
2015
Friday 10 July 2015
Possible Examination Board date
Monday 1
September 2015
Dissertation
submission
deadline
Tuesday 14 July
2015
Friday 4 September
2015
1st or 2nd week of September 2015
In addition to these dates you will need to be aware of other important events and deadlines
throughout the year; such as coursework/ assessment submission dates, publication of results,
mitigating circumstances deadlines, and programme and assessment planning deadlines
established from time to time. The above dates are a guide subject to change. Do please bear
in mind that depending on the nature of work and availability of resources, the October 2014
cohort may well finish at the same time as the January 2015 cohort.
Key contacts
Programme Director
Mr Mayo Win-Pe LLB (Buckingham) LLM (Leicester) PGCLTHE (UCL) FHEA barrister
Senior Lecturer in Law
02920 417164
[email protected]
Academic Administrator
Katerina Ciura (Team Leader)
02920 417147
[email protected]
The Administrators offices are located on the ground floor of the Cardiff School of
Management building near to the front reception desk.
Teaching location
Cardiff School of Management (Ogmore Building)
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Llandaff Campus
Western Avenue
Cardiff
CF5 2YB
The School endeavours to make every effort to ensure that all formal teaching sessions are
conducted within the building although there may be circumstances where formal scheduled
classes are timetabled in another building within the Llandaff campus.
Welcome to your programme
This is the Joining Pack for the LLM International Business for the academic year 20142015. The staff of the Cardiff School of Management warmly welcomes you to Cardiff
Metropolitan University Llandaff Campus. Detailed information about the programme is
contained in the Programme Handbook which you will receive during your induction after
enrolment and registration has taken place.
Using your Joining Pack
This document contains information to assist you in preparing for your studies. Some of it
will be of more relevance to you later in the course than at the start of your studies. We
recommend that you read the information contained herein thoroughly and carefully, as it
covers many of the questions you will have about your Programme. This Joining Pack should
be read in conjunction with the University Student Handbook and Student Charter available
electronically via the Student Portal and by following this link –
http://www3.cardiffmet.ac.uk/english/registry/academic_handbook/pages/home.aspx
It is absolutely vital that you also understand the University Academic Handbook which
contains all the up to date Regulations, rules and procedures applicable to you as the student.
It is an open access publication made available here –
http://www3.cardiffmet.ac.uk/english/registry/academic_handbook/pages/home.aspx
While the information contained in this Joining Pack is correct as of 23 June 2014, it is
important to note that the information in this document may, from time to time, be changed.
You should always check with the Programme Director via email to ensure that you make
important decisions in accordance with the most up-to-date information.
With best wishes for the coming year,
Mr Mayo Win-Pe
LLM International Business Programme
The Administration
The Programme Director is responsible for the administration of the programme supported by
the Administrator Katerina Ciura. The conduct of the programme is subject to the control of
the Law Field Group and the Director of Learning and Teaching and Associate Dean Dr
Kelvin Hughes who is also the Chair of the School Learning and Teaching Committee.
Programme Outline for 2013-2014 academic year
To graduate with the Master of Laws degree in this programme, you are required to
successfully complete 180 ‘M’ level credits. Save for the dissertation module (40 credits) all
modules in the LLM are weighted 20 credits each.
LLM programme is designed to operate over 3 terms plus dissertation sessions and
supervision over the summer months. Please note that the term dates for the LLM
programme neither follow the pattern of other Masters programmes nor the University
timetables. The LLM term dates are as detailed above under ‘Key Dates’ table.
Modules
Do please note that for the 2014-2015 Academic Year, the School will only be able to
offer the following modules under FINANCE pathway specialisation. There will not be
any other choices available. You will therefore be required to undertake the following
modules:
Term 1 (October 2014 entry cohort)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Introduction to International Business (LLM7001) (20 credits)
Legal Research Skills and Reasoning (LLM7005) (20 credits)
Business and Crime (LLM7006) (20 credits)
Transnational Commercial Law (LLM7003) (20 credits)
Term 2 (Both October 2014 and January 2015 entry cohorts)
1. Role of Business in Society (LLM7002) (20 credits)
2. Legal Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions (LLM7011) (20 credits)
3. Legal Aspects of International Finance (LLM7010) (20 credits)
Term 3 (Repeat of Term 1 modules for the January 2015 entry cohort)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Introduction to International Business (20 credits)
Legal Research Skills and Reasoning (20 credits)
Business and Crime (20 credits)
Transnational Commercial Law (20 credits)
Do please note that students may only progress into the dissertation phase upon successful
completion of their diet of taught modules and assessments. Due to the intensive nature of
reading and assessments involved in the programme, it is recommended that the quicker the
permission is received upon successful completion of the assessments, the longer the
timeframe is available to commence the dissertation phase. The rules and processes
applicable to dissertation supervision will be provided to the students closer to the time.
Schedule of formal group sessions and singulares/tutorials/ smaller classes
The School endeavour to ensure that the programme is delivered over two full days (9am –
6pm) of the week. Whilst every effort is made to provide two connected days in a given week
(Monday to Friday) for all formal sessions as well as ad hoc sessions, the practicalities of
appropriate room availability as well as lecturers timetables may mean that it may not always
be possible. Further agreed sessions either on a one to one basis or those consisting of
collective meetings which may take the form of singulares/ tutorials/ smaller classes are
arranged on an ad hoc basis by individual lecturers within a given week (Monday – Friday)
which is also subject to availability of appropriate rooms and lecturers timetables.
Weekly group sessions are normally timetabled for 2 hours blocks for each module. There
may be circumstances where these blocks may run consecutively in any given day.
Depending on the progress made, it may well be that smaller sessions are continued
elsewhere outside of timetabled teaching classes/rooms either in the same day or at a
mutually agreed time and date. There will of course be short breaks provided throughout the
day but being fore warned is fore armed as to the intensive nature of the programme
schedule.
Timetables
The University publishes timetables at the beginning of each term. You are advised to check
the timetable periodically for the first week or two of the term in question as they are likely to
change overnight. You will be notified by the Programme Director of the changes as and
when advised by the University timetabling unit.
Required Reading
To familiarise yourself with the nature and content of the modules, although you are not
required to purchase the books, it is nevertheless recommended that you peruse them. The list
is subject to change and you will be notified of your reading requirements once you have
joined the programme. Do note that you will be ‘reading’ for a specialist postgraduate master
of laws programme and as such the requisite degree of commitment and ability needed cannot
be underestimated.
Introduction to international Business
August, R., Mayer, D., and Bixby, M (2008) International Business Law: Text, Cases, and
Readings, 5th ed., Pearson Education
Goode, R., Kronke, H., McKendrick, E., and Wool, J (2010) Transnational Commercial Law:
Text, Cases and Materials, OUP Oxford
The Role of Business in Society
Cato, M. S. (2008), Environment and Economy (London: Routledge).
Schaltenegger, S. and Wagner, M. (2006), Managing the Business Case for Sustainability:
The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance (Sheffield: Greenleaf).
Transnational Commercial Law
Dalhuisen, J. (2007), Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial
and Trade Law, 3d ed., Hart Publishing
Penn, G. and Haynes, A. (2009), The Law and Practice of International Banking, 2nd edn.,
Sweet & Maxwell
Legal Research Skills and Reasoning
Hanson, S (2009). Legal Method, Skills and Reasoning: 3rd Edition. Routledge Cavendish
Publishing Limited.
Volokh, E (2010) Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar
Papers, and Getting on Law Review, 4th edn. Foundation Press.
Business and Crime
Zagaris, B. (2010) International White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials, Cambridge
University Press
Zerk, J. A. (2011) Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility: Limitations and
Opportunities in International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative
Law), 1st ed., Cambridge University Press
Dissertation
Lyons, E and Doueck, H (2010) The Dissertation: From Beginning to End. Oxford University
Press
Salter and Mason (2007) Writing Law Dissertations. Pearson Longman
Legal Aspects of International Finance
Buckley, R. (2008) International Financial System: Policy and Regulation (International
Banking and Finance Law Series), Kluwer Law International
Warde, L. (2010) Islamic Finance in the Global Economy, 2nd revised ed., Edinburgh
University Press
Legal Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions
De Pamphilis, D. (2009) Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Restructuring Activities: An
Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases and Solutions, 5th ed., Academic Press Inc.
Dirk van Gerven (2010) Cross-Border Mergers in Europe, Cambridge University Press
Gaughan, P. A. (2010) Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings, 5th ed., John
Wiley and Sons
Goyder, J. and Albors-Llorens, A. (2009) Goyder’s EC Competition Law, 5th ed., OUP
Oxford
Sudarsanam, S. (2010) Creating Value from Mergers and Acquisitions, Pearson Education
Limited, Financial Times, Prentice Hall
Previous years’ examples of type, mode and content of Assessments for individual
Modules
NOTE: LLM International Business (Finance) Assessments – So far as is possible, all
assessments are based on LIVE international business related issues:
LLM 7005 Legal Research Skills and Reasoning – Doctrinal legal research essay (50%) and
a full 3,000 word dissertation proposal (50%)
LLM7002 Role of Business in Society (non-law module) – group writing of report on an
aspect of business such as ethics and sustainability and individual project presentation
(100%)
LLM7001 Introduction to International Business – Tesco joint venture agreement with China
Resources Enterprise essay (40%) and JP Morgan Chase investigation into ‘London Whale’
trades by Financial Conduct Authority essay (60%)
LLM7003 Transnational Commercial Law – Co-operative Bank exchange offer to
bondholders (40%) and Bank of England special resolution regime under the Banking Act
2009 (60%)
LLM7006 Business and Crime – skeleton, trial bundle and moot court on GlaxoSmithKline
operations in China and consideration under Bribery Act 2010 (100%)
LLM7011 Legal Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions – case analysis on Blackberry and
Fairfax take-over (20%) and Negotiation on dispute resolution between Rio Tinto and the
Mongolian government over Oyu Tolgoi mine (80%)
LLM7010 Legal Aspects of International Finance – Presentation on Kusile power plant
finance in South Africa (20%) and recognition of Sharia law under the Rome Convention
essay (80%)
Previous years’ dissertations
2012-2013 dissertations were on:
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Indemnity clauses in upstream petroleum agreements in the oil and gas sector
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Transfer pricing and arm’s length principle in the European Union
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Tax avoidance and multinational corporations’ directors’ duties
Observance of human rights by the multinational operating in Nigerian oil and gas
sector
Comparative analysis of operation of the universal declaration of human rights in
India and Europe
Piracy and ransom claims under English law
2013-2014 dissertation are on:
•
Corporate Governance following the global financial crisis
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Comparative analysis between FOB and CIF incoterms
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Doctrine of legal personality in company law context
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