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

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 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.

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.