LL416E      Half Unit
Advanced Issues of International Commercial Arbitration

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp

Availability

This course is available on the Executive Master of Laws (ELLM). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Available to Executive LLM students only. This course will be offered on the Executive LLM during the four year degree period. The Law School will not offer all Executive LLM courses every year, although some of the more popular courses may be offered in each year, or more than once each year. Please note that whilst it is the Law School's intention to offer all Executive LLM courses, its ability to do so will depend on the availability of the staff member in question. For more information please refer to the Law School website. 

Requisites

Additional requisites:

Fundamentals of International Commercial Arbitration (LL415E) or equivalent course in previous studies or relevant practical experience with international arbitration

Course content

This course aims at giving students who already are acquainted with the fundamentals of international commercial arbitration the possibility to go into further depth.   Despite its academic orientation, the course is highly relevant for those wanting to specialise in arbitration practice;  theoretical problems have a most significant impact on practical solutions in this field. The course will treat a selection of topical contemporary issues, such as the role of internationally mandatory rules of law, arbitration & insolvency, the scope of the competence-competence principle; arbitration and fraud and corruption, or anti-suit injunctions. The course seeks to be as topical as possible, so that content may change in the light of developments.

Teaching

24-26 hours of contact time.

Formative assessment

Students will have the option of producing a formative exam question of 2000 words to be delivered one month from the end of the module’s teaching session by email.

 

Indicative reading

Gary Born, International Commercial Arbitration (3rd edn, Kluwer 2020); Nigel Blackaby and Constantine Partasides, Redfern & Hunter on International Commercial Arbitration (7th edn, OUP 2022)

Assessment

Assessment Pathway 1

Essay (100%, 8000 words)

Assessment Pathway 2

Legal problems (100%)


Key facts

Department: LSE Law School

Course Study Period: Autumn Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 7

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: Unavailable

Average class size 2024/25: Unavailable

Controlled access 2024/25: No
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