Curriculum overview

The course load of an MCL student during the nine-month duration of the course will be:

  • The 'Deals Course', a full-year paper open only to MCL students that focuses on the legal and economic structuring of corporate transactions
  • A full-year lecture-based corporate-oriented course open to both MCL and LLM students
  • Four one-term lecture-based elective courses ('modules') open only to MCL students

A typical MCL student’s schedule

Michaelmas Term
(Term 1, Oct-Dec)
Lent Term
(Term 2, Jan-Mar)
Easter Term
(Term 3, Apr-Jun)
MCL/LLM full-year course
Deals Course
Module 1Module 3 
Module 2Module 4