The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.

The aims of this module are to: 

• Equip students with a knowledge of the key principles and institutions of international law.
• Enable students to critically appraise the role and potential role played by international law in the context of a series of contemporary global issues.
• Enable students to appreciate how different theoretical approaches to international law frame how current issues and problems are, and might be, understood and addressed.

The aims of this module are to:

• Understand the core concepts and principles related to finance, including financial markets, instruments and practices.
• Familiarise with the roles of different financial institutions and their products.
• Equip students with the fundamental knowledge in corporate finance and investments.

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the evolution and change in diplomatic practice in the contemporary digitised world, through a range of conceptual tools, cases and issue areas. The main objectives are:

• To equip students with theoretical approaches, concepts and debates enabling the critical interrogation of diplomacy in the contemporary digitised world through theoretical and empirical exploration of the relationship of diplomacy to the following key organising categories: sovereignty, representation, communication, power, knowledge production, gender, and sustainability. In so doing, it aims to uncover the role of both state and non-state actors in diplomacy in the contemporary digitised world, thus adopting an enlarged approach to diplomacy, entailing diplomacies in the plural--of multiple actors, in multiple issue areas, and of multiple modalities.
• To showcase skills and various ways of being a diplomat in the contemporary digital world, through introducing and unpacking the real-life applications of such skills and ways, integrating practitioner contributions where possible; as well as through examining various and often overlooked pathways of practicing diplomacy (such as public diplomacy, paradiplomacy, protodiplomacy, NGO and advocacy diplomacy).

This module aims to equip students with in-depth knowledge of world trade law and regulation; the contribution it makes to the evolution of international economic law; and the challenges it faces in light of competing theories of development, economic and social globalisation, and inter-state and inter-regional economic conflicts.

The aim of this module is to understand the main features, concepts and practices of international negotiations. It provides an overview of the most important elements of negotiation and offers an application to a number of case studies.

The aim of this module is to critically examine and understand key theories and debates associated with the field of international development. The module aims to deconstruct the epistemological underpinnings informing dominant theories of development and examine how they translate into the practice of international and sustainable development as seen amongst key stakeholders such as UN agencies, national governments, companies, civil society organisations and social movements.

This module examines the growing critique of development and explores the diversity of thought reflected in the epistemologies of the South. By further assessing how colonial history, patriarchy and capitalism have influenced discourses and practices of development this module seeks to complexify and nuance our understandings of theories of development and actors of change.

The aim of this module is to provide students with a wider understanding of the role the international regulation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays in the socio-economic well-being of countries. It will develop students' understanding of the relationship between states' right to regulate in the public interest and foreign investment protection; and of the legal, practical and theoretical implications of FDI regulation. It will enable students to place FDI regulation within economic, social, and political contexts and to recognise the different perspectives on FDI regulation articulated by states, investors, civil society actors and theorists.

This module aims to:

• Equip students with a comprehensive critical overview of the principles, policy debates and theoretical issues underlying tax law.
• Combine a lawyerly perspective on taxation with interdisciplinary insights from political economy and fiscal sociology.
• Provide students with a strong foundation on which to build specialist tax expertise on a variety of tax topics in a practitioner, academic, or other expert role.
• Enable students to recognise and critically appraise the role played by tax law in the economic life of a world in crisis.

The aims of this module are to equip students with the necessary academic skills to understand the challenges firms face in different developing countries and assessing different ways in which firms can overcome these challenges.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a working knowledge of the accounting and commercial skills required both to monitor and evaluate company performance, and to understand the financial consequences of business decisions, particularly for relatively small and young firms; be able to critically assess alternatives.

The aim of this module is to understand the role that sport plays in political and diplomatic issues at a national and international level.

Using contemporary examples from developed, transitioning, developing, and fuel-based economies, the module will explore how sport can be used to positive (e.g., facilitating socio-economic plans) or negative (e.g., whitewashing human rights violations) ends. In doing so, the module aims to promote a critical, evidence-based understanding of the interplay between sport, politics, and diplomacy.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a knowledge of the theories and methods in law and interdisciplinary perspectives that provide them with the conceptual lenses for approaching legal questions in academic and policy research.

The aims of this module are to:

• Enable students to carry out an independent and in-depth research project in an area of their choice under the guidance of a supervisor.
• Enable students to develop in-depth knowledge of a chosen area and the key theoretical or policy debates relating thereto.
• Enhance students' understanding of the research process, including project design and management.

The aims of this module are to:

• Equip students with a critical understanding of the history, development, institutions and legal principles of international human rights law.
• Provide students with a critical appreciation of the operation of international human rights law in a diverse range of situations.
• Enable students to critically assess the limits and potential of international human rights law to deliver social justice.
• Enable students to appreciate the role of international human rights law in social justice advocacy.
• Enable students to develop creative legal strategies in the quest for social justice.

This module aims to: 

• Equip students with a comprehensive overview of the principles of tax law as they apply to the entire lifecycle of `value creation' from investment, through production, to consumption.
• Combine a critical investigation of the principles underlying the topics covered with detailed coverage of relevant legal doctrine.
• Enable students to recognise and understand the tax aspects of complex real-world transactions

The aims of this module are to:

• Develop a broad understanding of disruptive financial technologies and their practical use in modern financial applications.
• Provide students with key analytics and machine learning knowledge required by data-driven models of financial services provision.
• Introduce students to the concept of blockchain and develop understanding of cyber security and data protection in digital finance systems; money evolution characteristics and functionality; the evolution of InsurTech industry; decentralisation of the financial system that includes Crowdfunding and other P2P lending; digital payments transformation, and Regulation Policy and its impact on the Financial sector.
• Equip students with essential skills required to operate in the existing and emerging fintech sectors.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a knowledge of the various types of intellectual property, searching intellectual property databases, the legal basis of intellectual property rights, the application process for obtaining intellectual property and its importance to the innovation process and the entrepreneur.

The overarching aim of the module is to provide students with a wider understanding of theories and debates in International Relation and Security through a specialised focus on the emerging concept, debates and practices around polycrisis. Traditional and critical theories of IR and security serve multiple lenses through which to interrogate and critique polycrisis while simultaneously critically assessing whether and in what ways they might be adequate, obsolete, deficient or else affording analytical and practical opportunities for making sense of the polycrisis and steering its understanding towards sustainable social change.

This module aims to equip students with a broader understanding of sustainability issues as they have evolved historically in the international arena, and have more recently been linked to inter/national trade law and policy. Sustainability is conceived as encompassing not only environmental and climate sustainability but also developmental sustainability and gender and labour justice.

The module will develop students' comprehension of conceptual and normative understandings of sustainability, and the role that inter/national trade law, policy and practice play in either enabling governments and international organisations to tackle environmental, gender and labour challenges, or preventing them from doing so.

The module aims to introduce students to the way the changing nature of world order has affected societies globally. Transformations in the world order have brought to the fore risks and challenges that indiscriminately impact peoples around the world. The module explores the nature of these transformations, namely the agency and autonomy that individuals have in mitigating change. Key emphasis will be placed on the identifying the most successful strategies that societies have designed and implemented in order to adapt to changes in the world order.

Some of the most important challenges derived from the evolution of the world order that the module aims to discuss include conflict and geopolitics, global inequality, innovation and progress, resilience and sustainability or migration. The experience of societies in the Global South will be given greater consideration, with a special focus on the impact that the BRICS group of states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has on the world order. In broader terms, the module evaluates the various strategies that states, international organisations, businesses or NGOs have developed in order to cope with change in the world order.

The aims of this module are to:

• Equip students with a critical understanding of the capacity of international criminal law and its institutions to deliver justice in the face of some of the most serious crimes known to the international community.
• Enable students to understand the limitations of international criminal justice and to identify further areas where it could be developed.
• Enable students to consider critically the relationship between international criminal justice and international and national politics.
• Provide students with an appreciation of how different approaches to international criminal justice inform an understanding of the law's limits and potential.

This module aims to:

• Equip students with a comprehensive overview of the principles of international tax law.
• Combine a critical investigation of the underlying theory and policy issues with coverage of doctrinal detail.
• Enable students to critically appraise the role played by international tax law in the global challenges that we face today.

This module has two main aims. The first is to expose students to concrete development challenges experienced by different stakeholders (policy makers, communities and industry representatives, etc) in developing countries. The second is to experiment with the ways through which the immersion into the field can inform the identification of development challenges and the formulation of research questions and action plans in the area of development.

Note that there are additional travel costs involved in taking this module.

This module aims to:

• Develop students understanding of how corporations are governed and how they manage their social and environmental responsibilities.
• Provide students with the skills to discuss the role of internal (corporate boards, investors) and external (law and private regulations) governance and accountability mechanisms.
• Equip students with academic and practical knowledge of corporate governance frameworks and CSR processes.
• Enable students to critically assess how governance and social and environmental responsibility mechanisms influence a range of societal outcomes, stakeholder relationships, and firm behaviour.
• Generate awareness of the pressures, limitations, and outcomes associated with various corporate governance models and responsible/irresponsible corporate conduct.

The aims of this module are to provide business awareness regarding:

• How businesses and other economic actors are influenced by sectoral, national and global institutions.
• The differing institutional trajectories along which regional and national economies develop.
• Examine the relationship between markets, institutions, business strategy and macroeconomic economic outcomes regarding slow growth, inequality and crisis.
• Provide an introduction to alternative theoretical approaches to understanding capitalism.

The aims of this module are to:

• Enable students to carry out an independent and in-depth research project in an area of their choice under the guidance of a supervisor.
• Enable students to develop in-depth knowledge of a chosen area and the key theoretical or policy debates relating thereto.
• Enhance students' understanding of the research process, including project design and management.