LL4AH Half Unit
Corporate Governance
This information is for the 2025/26 session.
Course Convenor
Dr Carsten Gerner Beuerle
Availability
This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time), MSc in Law and Finance, MSc in Regulation and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course uses controlled access as part of the course selection process.
How to apply: Priority will be given initially to LLM, MSc Regulation and MSc Law and Finance students on a first-come-first-served allocation.
Spaces permitting, requests from all other students will be processed on the same first-come-first-served allocation from 10am on Thursday 2 October 2025
By submitting an application, students are confirming that they meet any pre-requisites specified. Providing an additional written statement will not aid a student's chances of being accepted onto a course, and statements are not read.
Deadline for application: Not applicable
For queries contact: Law.llm@lse.ac.uk
This course has a limited number of places and demand is typically high. This may mean that you’re not able to get a place on this course.
Requisites
Additional requisites:
Students should have some knowledge of corporate law.
Course content
This course will focus on the corporate governance of companies. The course will be taught largely on a comparative basis. Topics such as the following will be discussed: theoretical governance frameworks, the balance of power in the corporation, governance and ownership structures, shareholder activism, board structure and composition, executive remuneration, gatekeeping governance strategies.
Teaching
2 hours of seminars in the Spring Term.
20 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.
This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.
Formative assessment
All students are expected to produce one 1,500 word formative essay during the course.
Indicative reading
Micheler, Company Law - A Real Entity Theory (OUP 2021); Gordon and Ringe, The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (OUP 2018); M Moore and M Petrin, Corporate Governance: Law, Regulation and Theory (Palgrave 2017)
Assessment
Exam (100%), duration: 150 Minutes in the Spring exam period
Key facts
Department: LSE Law School
Course Study Period: Winter and Spring Term
Unit value: Half unit
FHEQ Level: Level 7
CEFR Level: Null
Total students 2024/25: 80
Average class size 2024/25: 27
Controlled access 2024/25: YesCourse selection videos
Some departments have produced short videos to introduce their courses. Please refer to the course selection videos index page for further information.
For this course, please see the following link/s:
LL4AH Corporate Governance Course Guide Video https://youtu.be/sYHIQAfddrM