hong kong LLM Corporate Governance GradCG

Locations: Online or On Campus
Study mode: Full-time or Part-time
Start Dates: October 2024
Course Fees: HK$122,550 (Online), HK$133,400 (On Campus)

In recognising Hong Kong’s position as an international legal hub, we are offering quality postgraduate law opportunities to the city’s aspiring legal professionals, with a wide portfolio of professional law degrees, specialist legal training and on-going professional development courses for barristers and solicitors.

A Master of Laws (LLM) is a postgraduate degree designed to enhance your academic legal knowledge, particularly focusing on specific areas of interest. The LLM Corporate Governance GradCG is an innovative, flexible programme designed for law and non-law graduates who would like to advance their careers by gaining essential in-depth knowledge of Corporate Governance in practice.

Why choose our LLM Corporate Governance GradCG?

The LLM Corporate Governance GradCG programme is different from our other corporate governance Master’s awards. It is accredited by The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland (CGI, formerly known as the Institute for Chartered Secretaries and Administrators or ICSA) and is mapped to the new Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme syllabus. This means that there is a defined syllabus that you must complete in order to successfully graduate from the programme. Upon successful completion, and in addition to your LLM, you will be eligible for GradCG membership. Once you have gained enough relevant work experience, you will be able to apply to become a fully chartered member of CGI.

This course has been developed to explore in detail the types of rules, policies and controls put in place to determine the behaviour of a corporation, and the intended outcome of those measures. It covers areas such as models of corporate governance, classification of systems and the impact of the global financial crisis. It will also cover the role of the company secretary, the board of directors, the relationship between the board and its shareholders, disclosure and accountability.

When you study the LLM Corporate Governance GradCG with us you will:

• Be taught by subject matter experts, former and current practitioners and research and teaching focused academics
• Focus on legal practice, not just theory
• Benefit from strategic partnerships with firms, regulators and accreditation bodies
• Learn about Legal Technology by selecting to study modules in legal technology
• Improve your employability by gaining important transferable skills and mapping your career with our careers team

In addition to a general induction to the programme, there is a two-week induction covering the Key Principles of the English Legal System. This is compulsory for non-law students, but also open to law students wanting a refresher in the fundamentals of the law of England and Wales. This would be useful for any student who has taken a considerable break from legal education.

To help prepare you for your dissertation you’ll study a range of compulsory and further optional Research Methods Training sessions in your first terms.

Why choose The University of Law?

• One of the UK’s longest-established specialist providers of legal education, since 1876 - we’ve trained more practising lawyers in the UK than anyone else.
• All our lecturers are qualified lawyers and many still practising. You’ll benefit from their insight into today's legal world delivered either on-campus or live online.
• We have locations across the UK and Hong Kong offering our postgraduate courses.
• We have the UK’s largest legal alumni group with over 100,000 members, giving our students excellent networking opportunities; many of whom are qualified lawyers in Hong Kong and Malaysia.
• We work with 90 of the top 100 UK law firms, many of whom send their trainees and lawyers exclusively to us. We also have close links with a wide range of barristers’ chambers.
• Our award-winning pro bono team put your legal skills into practice by giving you access to 3,700 opportunities to work on cases while you’re studying.
• Our expert legal careers and employability service is one of the largest in the UK, with experts providing one-to-one support.
• 95% of postgraduate students in employment were in highly skilled employment 15 months after graduating (2020/21 Graduate Outcomes data). Contains HESA Data: Copyright Jisc 2022.

Eligibility

Students should possess a UK bachelor’s degree in any subject at 2:2 or above or equivalent qualifications.

Overseas graduates, in addition to the above, we also require an English language qualification at a level equivalent to IELTS 6.5 or above, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component.

Extended Non-means-tested Loan Scheme (ENLS)

Our LLM students are eligible to apply for the ENLS loan to cover their tuition fees. Information about the eligibility, application, loan limit, interest fee and other details can be found at the following website: www.wfsfaa.gov.hk/sfo/eng/schemes/nlss.htm. For further enquiries please contact ENLS enquiry hotline direct on (852) 2150-6223.