Students will develop and apply a deep understanding of core principles of law, commerce and finance, and advanced skills in document analysis and drafting, to analyse parties’ rights, obligations, and risks, and protect their interests. They will do so in detail in the context of a small number of complex commercial and financial transactions. The knowledge, skills and experience gained will be of value to any student considering specialisation in corporate, commercial or financial practice, or further study in these areas of law.
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Pre-requisite modules
Co-requisite modules
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Prohibited combinations
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Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Spring Term 2022-23 |
Students will develop a deep and practical understanding of the way in which core principles of law are applied to agree parties’ rights and obligations, and protect their interests, in their commercial and financial dealings. Aligned to this knowledge will be the development of a number of practical legal skills, including document analysis and drafting. Knowledge, skills, and related commercial awareness, will all be developed in the context of realistic transactional scenarios and case studies, based on a small number of complex commercial and financial transactions, using authentic transactional documentation.
The module also aims, as part of the overall LLB programme, to enable students to develop new and further critical perspectives on law, whilst progressively developing core academic and legal skills.
Students will consider aspects of foundational subjects of law such as obligations and property, and concepts such as risk and security. New, relevant areas of law, including aspects of insolvency and tax will be developed. In studying the anatomy of commercial and financial transaction documentation, students will develop an understanding of commonalities in structure, content and purpose.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
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The portfolio will comprise a number of related outputs based on a scenario released to students at the end of the teaching period. These outputs will be designed to assess a range of the module learning outcomes and will vary in format. Examples could include:
The latter output will be a standard item in every summative assessment of this module.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Students will receive regular feedback based on their contributions to workshops, and through peer and tutor review of outputs created for workshops, based on module scenarios. These outputs will be similar in format and purpose to those that comprise the summative assessment (see further below) and will thus have a role as informal formative assessment items. Students will receive written feedback on their summative assessment outputs, within the timescale set by the University's Feedback Turnaround Time policy. There will be a general "open-door" approach to further feedback and guidance during the module and following assessments should this be required by individual students.
Commercial Law, Text, Cases and Materials - 5th Ed - Clarke et al - OUP
Contract Law - 2nd Ed - TT Arvind - OUP
Business Law - 27th Ed - Slorach & Ellis - OUP
Loan Agreements and Syndicated Lending - McKnight and Zakrzewski - OUP