Postgraduate Law Programmes Webinar

We are delighted to host a Postgraduate Law Programme webinar for academic year 2024/2025. Presentations will be delivered by the School of Law’s LL.M and MSc Law and Finance Course Directors, followed by a Q & A session.

How to Register

Register in advance for this meeting: here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

About the School of Law

Founded in 1740, the School of Law is one of the leading law schools in Europe, consistently ranked as one of the top 100 law schools in the world. We are very proud of our postgraduate programmes which attract top legal graduates from prestigious universities in over 30 countries annually. Students benefit from an intellectually rigorous and culturally diverse environment, enriched by a deep sense of community. Our established Postgraduate taught programmes offer an array of modules with a European and international focus, providing students with an education that will enhance their mobility in pursuing global careers.

About the Event

We invite you to meet the School of Law’s Postgraduate Directors and discover how to join this outstanding scholarly community and enhance your legal career by completing one of their five Masters degrees.

• LL.M
• LL.M (International and European Business Law)
• LL.M (International and Comparative Law)
• LL.M (Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law)
• MSc Law and Finance

Schedule

• Introduction from Global Relations - Damien Farrell/Antonio De Linares
• Introduction to School of Law - Professor Blanaid Clarke, Director of LL.M Programmes
• LL.M programmes - Professor Blanaid Clarke, Director of LL.M Programmes
• MSc Law and Finance – Professor Felix Mezzanotte, Director of MSc Law and Finance Programme
• The Student Experience
• Q & A

Speaker Panel

Professor Blanaid Clarke holds the McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College Dublin where she is also Director of LL.M programmes. Her research interests include corporate law, governance and financial services law. She is Deputy Chairman of the Irish Banking Culture Board, an executive of the Irish Takeover Panel and the Irish representative on the OECD’s Corporate Governance Committee. She is also a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) Shareholder Transactions Working Group and a Vice President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute. Previously, she was a member of the Irish Central Bank Commission , ESMA’s Securities Markets Stakeholder Group, the European Commission’s Informal Expert Group on Company Law and its Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law.

Professor Felix Mezzanotte is the co-Director of the MSc Programme in Law and Finance. He teaches modules in financial services law, legal aspects of sustainable finance and insolvency law. His research has addressed legal problems in the areas of investor protection, EU sustainable finance, corporate law and governance, and competition law in the EU, Hong Kong and China. Felix’s work has been published in highly regarded law journals including the Capital Markets Law Journal, European Law Journal, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Review of Banking & Financial Law, and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, among others. Prior to Trinity, Félix taught law at the Faculty of Business of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for almost a decade.. He worked as policy advisor for the World Bank in Washington DC, and as a researcher at the Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). As visiting scholar, he completed research projects at Columbia Law School (Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment), Melbourne Law School, and Koguan Law School in China. Félix is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Irish Centre for European Law.

Kelley McCabe is the Postgraduate Programme Manager at the School of Law. She manages the administrative processes relating to the School of Law’s Postgraduate Taught (LL.M, MSc Law and Finance) and Postgraduate Research (Ph.D/M.Litt) programmes, from the admission stage to graduation. She will be available to assist with any queries you may have during the Q & A session.

Further information relating to our Postgraduate programmes can be found here