MSc Law and Accounting

Full-year programme. Students must take four courses one of which will be examined in part by dissertation. The Core course will be examined by Long Essay due by 21 August and a two-hour exam in May/June. Examinations in other courses may be in May/June or August/September depending on the regulations under which those courses fall.

Paper

Course number and title

1

LL440 

Corporate Accountability: Topics in Legal and Accounting Regulation *

2

AC420

Financial Reporting in Capital Markets ‡ or

AC464

Management Accounting and Financial Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting and Disclosure †

3

LL407

Media and Communications Regulation (H) (n/a 13/14)

LL4D5

Legal Risk in Financial Markets (H)

 

LL4F2

Law and Practice of International Finance (H)

LL4F3

Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe (H)+

LL4F4

Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US (H)

LL4G8

Law of Corporate Finance (H)

LL4H4

Financial Law (H)

LL4H8

Employment Law (H)

LL4H9

Human Rights in the Workplace (H) (n/a 13/14)

LL4N6

Principles of Copyright Law (H)

LL4S1

Cyberlaw (H)

LL4S2

E-Commerce Law (H) (n/a 13/14)

LL4S5

Piracy, Content and Ownership in the Information Society (H) (n/a 13/14)

LL4Z1

Business Taxation (H)

LL4Z2

Principles of Taxation (H)

LL4Z3

Consumption Taxes (H)

LL4Z4

Value Added Tax in the European Context (H) (n/a 13/14)

LL4AA

Global Copyright Policy: Contemporary Issues (H)

LL4AH

Comparative Company Law (H)

LL4AJ

Insolvency Law: Principles, Rescue and Reconstruction Processes (H)

LL4AK

Insolvency Law: Company Liquidation and Stakeholder Interests (H)

LL4AT

Regulation: Strategies and Enforcement (H)

LL4AU

Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects (H)

LL4AY

International Tax Systems (H)

LL4AZ

International Tax Systems: Advanced Problems (H)

LL4BE

Principles of Financial Regulation (H)

LL4BF

Regulating for Financial Stability (H)

LL4BK

Corporate Crime (H)

LL4BL

Financial Crime (H)

LL4CD

European Company Law (H)

LL4CF

UK Corporate Law (H)

LL4CJ

Comparative Corporate Taxation (H)

LL4CK

Taxation of Corporate Transactions (H) (n/a 13/14)

 

Any other LLM course from those offered at LSE subject to approval

4

Any of the courses listed in 3 above for which the student is eligible and has not already taken, or one of the following (or two half units) with approval:

 

AC410

Management Accounting, Strategy and Organizational Control

AC411

Accounting, Strategy and Control (H)

AC412

Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H)

AC444

Valuation and Securities Analysis (H)

AC470

Accounting in the Global Economy (H) (n/a 13/14)

FM430

Corporate Finance and Asset Markets

 

An LSE LLM or MSc course not listed here §

Notes

* To be examined by 10,000-word Long Essay and a two-hour examination.
‡ Prior knowledge of accounting needed.
† For those without prior knowledge of accounting.
§ means by special permission only.