Law governs every aspect of people's lives, from food labelling and football transfers to elections and crime. It regulates people's social life from the contracts that they make when they buy products to the laws that determine when people can be jailed for committing criminal offences, and through to significant political decisions, such as constitutional reforms on marriage or abortion. As a law student, students will learn what laws are, how they work and how they change.
Businesses deal with more complex issues concerning government regulations and international trade policies. Conversely, the law has had to grapple with constantly evolving commercial organizations and business practices. With the growth in the size of legal practices and the expansion of the work of the legal profession into areas of mergers, acquisitions and taxation, the work of legal graduates and business graduates has blended in many aspects.
This joint degree aims to give students a firm grounding in the disciplines of law and business and to develop a critical understanding of both the legal framework of business activity and the economic and commercial context in which law operates. Students will have the opportunity to focus upon the many areas of overlapping interest between the two disciplines, for example, the structure of companies and other forms of business organization, competition law and regulation of markets, consumer law, labor law, finance and financial markets, taxation, the protection of intellectual property and international perspectives on law and business.
