Prof Jeremy Horder

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. For information on controlled access courses, including eligibility, application processes, deadlines, and departmental contact details, please refer to the Controlled Access Courses webpage.

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 1 October 2026

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.

This course focuses on crime committed within the commercial and business environment. The course considers the principles of corporate criminal liability and different models of corporate criminal liability. The exercise of prosecutorial discretion in corporate crime cases, with a consideration of deferred prosecution agreements, is examined. The course addresses the challenges in the international fight against corruption. As well as exploring the nature, extent and consequences of corruption, the course examines the law of fraud and false accounting, as well as international responses to corporate crime and their implementation into domestic law.  The increasing emphasis placed by the law on a company’s obligation to prevent the occurrence of corporate crime is also examined, in relation to fraud and the abuse of human rights. There is no overlap between this course and the course on Financial Crime in the Winter (second) Term.

20 hours of seminars in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

One 2,000 word essay.

Reading is prescribed for each lecture and seminar. There are no core textbooks available for the course, but a number of key topics are discussed in Jeremy Horder, A Theory of Corporate Crime  (Oxford University Press 2026): accessible through Oxford Scholarship online. All the reading material is available from resources easily accessible through LSE Moodle, LSE Electronic Library and the internet. Preliminary reading is not required but for an understanding of the areas covered in the course students may read the Introduction to A Theory of Corporate Crime (above), or Stuart Green: Lying, Cheating and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Exam (100%), duration: 150 Minutes in the Spring exam period.