LLM
Oil, Gas and Mining Law This course builds upon our considerable expertise in this area, and has been designed in response to the growing significance of legal issues surrounding the oil, gas and mining industry.
What you’ll study This course provides you with a strong analytical understanding of the key legal issues in the industry, with a particular focus on the environmental law and investment law aspects of the oil, gas and mining sectors. It also draws on international trade and commercial law, which will help you to develop an understanding of the oil, gas and mining industries in their global economic context. Modules You’ll study six taught modules, followed by a dissertation. Core modules: These core modules introduce you to the political and economic background within the petroleum and mining industries, as well as other major energy infrastructure projects. You’ll explore the international legal framework for transnational foreign investment, and the general policy and legal issues related to the international regulation of such investments. You’ll begin by developing your understanding of the economic, political and legal relationship between states, public and private international finance institutions, and multinational energy and mining corporations. The second module moves on to discuss both the regulatory and litigation aspects of investment disputes within petroleum, mining and other energy infrastructure projects, using examples drawn from across the world. • Oil, Gas and Mining Investment Law I • Oil, Gas and Mining Investment Law II
Duration One year full-time Two years part-time 21-24 months distance learning Start date: September 2017
About this course Our LLM Oil, Gas and Mining Law course provides you with the foundations for a future career in most aspects of the regulatory and commercial world, as they relate to the international energy industry. With a specific focus on the petroleum and mining sectors of this growing area of economic activity, the LLM is also an ideal foundation for further postgraduate study – either as an MPhil, or a PhD.
97% of Nottingham Law School postgraduate students are employed or continuing their studies six months after completing their course.
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