MA in Law, Development and Globalisation at SOAS

MA in Law, Development and Globalisation

Duration: One calendar year (full-time); Two or three years (part-time, daytime only)

Overview

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Minimum Entry Requirements: Upper second class honours preferably in a related discipline

Start of programme: September intake only

The MA in Law, Development and Globalisation allows students to study the relationships between law and development in the context of a globalising world. It gives students the opportunity to study the complex relationship between these processes and legal systems in an international and comparative context, with the opportunity to focus on a broad range of areas including: imperialism, inequality, finance and commerce. All SOAS courses are designed not only to introduce students to the general fields of law, but also to provide an understanding of how generic legal structures and processes may operate in non-Western social and cultural settings. All teachers on courses offered at SOAS are experts in their designated field. Many have years of experience advising governments, international organisations or non-governmental organisation, and many also have been or continue to be legal practitioners.

Structure

Programme Specification

MA in Law, Development and Globalisation programme specification.

Programme Structure

Please note that all MA students need to take a two week Law and Legal Methods Pre-sessional Course before the teaching term begins.

Students are required to take three taught courses and a dissertation as follows:

At least two courses from the list below
The third option may be chosen from the General List or from the list below
Dissertation (10,000 words), on a topic related to the specialism of the degree (15PLAC999)

Affirmative action law - 15PLAH024 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Colonialism, empire and international law - 15PLAH025 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1 - Not Running 2013/2014
Comparative constitutional law - 15PLAC152 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Development, environment and the law in the South - 15PLAC158 (1 Unit) - Full Year - Not Running 2013/2014
Economic approaches to law - 15PLAH030 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Foundations of Comparative Law - 15PLAH031 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Foundations of international law - 15PLAH021 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Human rights in the developing world - 15PLAC111 (1 Unit) - Full Year
International and comparative copyright law: copyright in the global village - 15PLAC115 (1 Unit) - Full Year
International and comparative corporate law - 15PLAC116 (1 Unit) - Full Year
International Economic Law - 15PLAH033 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
International Labour Law and Equality Rights - 15PLAC169 (1 Unit) - Full Year
International law and global orders - 15PLAH019 (0.5 Unit) - Term 2
International laws on the use of force - 15PLAH020 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Law and development in Africa - 15PLAC160 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Law & governance in the developing world - 15PLAC125 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Law and international inequality:critical legal analysis of political economy from colonialism to globalisation - 15PLAC131 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Law of the Creative Cultural Industries in the Middle East and North Africa - 15PLAC161 (1 Unit)
Law of Islamic finance - 15PLAC159 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Migration, gender and the law in South East Asia and beyond - 15PLAH023 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1
Multinational enterprises and the law - 15PLAC140 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Sociological Approaches to Law - 15PLAH032 (0.5 Unit) - Term 1

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