The LLM pedagogy and methodology at the JGLS provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas:
A. Knowledge and Understanding
Learning Outcomes Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Strategies

A Knowledge and understanding of:
1. Complex and specialized areas of corporate, international trade and economic law and intellectual property law, often working at exploring and understanding the current issues and challenges to legal principles underpinning the field of study.
2. The practice of areas of corporate, international trade and economic law and intellectual property law and influence of international law
Teaching/learning methods and strategies
Acquisition of 1 is through:
International Economic Law, Practice of
Corporate Law, Intellectual Property
Law, World Trade Organization Law and
Globalization and International Law and
Dissertation
Acquisition of 2 is through:
Globalization and International Law,
International Economic Law, Practice of
Corporate Law, Intellectual Property
Law, World Trade Organization Law and
Dissertation
Additional Support is provided through:
Banking and Finance Law, International
Dispute Settlement, Investment Law,
Maritime and Shipping Law,
International Intellectual Property Law

3.Understanding of institutions in which the business transactions take place, international trade and economic trade regimes are maintained and disputes are settled
4. Current global, regional and national legal instruments pertaining to corporate law, international trade law and intellectual property rights law
5.
Research approaches and techniques used in the analysis of legal issues drawing on the main research traditions in law.
Acquisition of 3 is through:
International Commercial
Transactions,
World Trade Organization Law,
Globalization and International
Law, Dissertation
Additional Support is provided through:
Banking and Finance Law, International
Dispute Settlement, Maritime and
Shipping Law, International Intellectual
Property Law, Corporate Governance.
Acquisition of 4 is through:
Globalization and International Law,
International Commercial Transactions,
International Intellectual Property Law,
World Trade Organization Law,
Dissertation
Additional Support is provided through:
International Commercial
Arbitration, Corporate Governance,
Maritime and Shipping Law
Acquisition of 5 is through:
Legal Research Methodology, Dissertation and Term Papers, Comparative Public Law,
Globalization a n d I nte r nati onal La w ,
Law and Justice in a Globalized World.
Additional Support is provided through:

6. Pervasive Issues including sustainability, global citizenship and diversity.
The Practice of Corporate Law: An
International Perspective, WTO Law,
International Economic Law,
International Intellectual Property Law
Acquisition of 6 is through any combination of the following:
Dissertation, International Economic
Law, Globalization and International
Law, The Practice of Corporate Law: An
International Perspective, International
Commercial Transactions, World Trade
Organization Law, Banking and
Finance Law, International Dispute
Settlement, Corporate Governance,
Information Technology Law,
International Intellectual Property Law,
Law and Justice in a Globalized World.
Learning and teaching is focused on informed guided reading, independent research leading to guided discussions and debates in the context of course work and seminars. Students are encouraged to undertake independent reading to supplement and consolidate their knowledge and understanding.
Assessment
The knowledge base is assessed through the incorporation of both oral and written assessment methods in all courses and through the dissertation.
Individual course specifications provide details of assessments.

B Intellectual Skills
B Intellectual Skills
1. Ability to deal with complex and specialized legal norms and exploring and understanding the current issues and challenges to legal principles underpinning respective fields of study;
2. Ability t o cri ti call y a n a l y z e , a t th e appropriate Post Graduate level, rules of law and to apply them to complex and developing factual situations;
3. Ability to analyze and synthesize abstract concepts and theories;
4. Ability to create responses to problems that redefine existing knowledge and/or develop new approaches to particular problems;
5. Ability to independently evaluate complex legal issues and to suggest alternatives;
6. Ability to present a structured argument at both abstract and concrete levels;
7. Ability to conceptualize and integrate complex ideas and arguments from multiple sources and perspectives
Teaching/learning methods and strategies
Intellectual skills are developed through all courses.
Learning and teaching is focused on informed guided reading, independent research leading to guided discussions and debates in the context of course work and seminars. Students are encouraged to undertake independent reading to supplement and consolidate their
knowledge and understanding.
Additional opportunities to develop intellectual skills are provided through JG
LS/JGU’s research centres and activities in the CPGLS, JGLS. Students are encouraged
to actively participate in these activities.
Assessment
Intellectual skills are assessed in all courses, including the dissertation, through the incorporation of both oral and written assessment methods.
Individual course specifications provide details of assessments

C Subject/Professional/Practical Skills Teaching/learning methods and strategies
Subject/Professional/Practical skills are
1. Ability to plan and undertake effective research on complex and specialized legal issues;
2. Ability to use information and knowledge effectively;
3. Ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral form; developed through all courses.
Learning and Teaching is focused on informed guided reading, independent research leading to guided discussions
4. Ability to articulate ideas, develop arguments and engage in debates orally, through presentations and group discussions and in written work;
5. Ability to recognize and address ethical dilemmas and corporate social responsibility issues; and debates in the context of course work and seminars. Students are encouraged to undertake independent reading to supplement and consolidate
knowledge and understanding. their
Additional opportunities to develop
6. Ability to use relevant ICT effectively;
through JGLS/JGU’s research centers and
7. Ability to work effectively as part activities in the CPGLS, JGLS. of a team, to listen and respond Students are encourages to actively to contributions in group
participate in these activities. processes and to negotiate and persuade others.
Assessment
Skills 1-6 are assessed in all courses; Skill 6 is assessed in particular in the Legal
Research Methodology course, including the dissertation, through the incorporation of both oral and written assessment methods.
Skill 7 is not explicitly assessed in relation to teamwork, but is indirectly assessed in all courses as the ability to listen and respond and negotiate and persuade is required for the successful achievement of learning outcomes assessed in all modules
Individual course specifications provide details of assessments.

D Transferable skills and other
attributes
Teaching/learning methods and strategies
Transferable skills are developed through all courses.
Learning and Teaching is focused on informed guided reading, independent research leading to guided discussions and
1. Ability to work autonomously with a self-awareness of key different situations.
7. Time management debates in the context of course work and seminars. Students are encouraged to research and analytical issues to be dealt with any particular piece of work;
2. Ability to plan strategies for effective research and analysis.
3.Ability to think analytically and a level consistent with Post
Graduate study; undertake independent reading to supplement and consolidate their knowledge and understanding.
Additional opportunities participate in these activities. to develop reflexively about complex material and to present arguments and information coherently and at intellectual skills are provided through
JG LS/JGU’s rese arch center s and activities in the CPGLS, JGLS.
Students are encourages to actively
4. An awareness of ethical issues including sustainability issues.
Assessment
5. Independent learning and reflective practice required for Skills 1-5 are assessed in all courses, including effective performance in future work roles. the dissertation, through the incorporation of both oral and written assessment methods in
6. Sensitivity to diversity in people and ability to work with people in individual and group assignments.
Skills 6 and 7 are not explicitly assessed but are required for the successful achievement of learning outcomes assessed in all modules.
Individual course specifications provide details of assessments