Business Management with Law

In today's regulatory landscape, corporations require managers versed in business law. This course equips you with both the managerial skills and legal knowledge you need for organisational success. You explore key management areas like marketing, accounting and human resources alongside business law fundamentals, such as contract and intellectual property law. You learn to apply theory to real-world scenarios, becoming an adept manager able to thrive in a broad range of organisational settings.

Facilities and specialist equipment

• New, state-of-the-art business analytics suite to support data analytics, 'big-data', data mining, digital marketing, SEO and other management skills.

• Our London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) trading room, where you can react to live ‘stock-market’ data.

• Software includes Microsoft Power BI and Vensim simulation, for analysing complex and messy business problems, plus VR immersive skills practice.

• Access to Sage, LSEG data platform and the econometrics software STATA.

• Gain competencies in key digital skills such as Excel through our Microsoft Office training platform.

Your student experience

Gain a sought-after specialism in law alongside a wide range of management and leadership skills.

Learn from research-driven academics actively involved in consultancy work.

Take up opportunities for consultancy experience during the second year of the degree, assisting businesses – from start-ups to established corporations – to solve problems, up-skill and innovate.

Benefit from masterclasses from industry experts so you benefit from their experience and keep at the leading edge in your field.

Extend your learning through field trips to see business management in action at companies such as John Lewis, Volvo, PW Gates Logistics, Luton Recycling and RAJA Packaging.

Access virtual business-management simulation software that allows you to participate in running a business and experience collaborative working.

Course modules

Year 1

Applied numeracy for business – Develop key numeracy skills vital for ensuring your success in future employment. Evolution and revolution in business – Explore the historical development of business through lectures and workshops. Contract law – Understand legal principles relating to the formation of contracts, their validity, interpretation, performance and remedies for breach. Beginning your professional business journey – Take on business challenges and collaborate with peers in a professional environment.

Year 2

Employability and the future workplace – Produce a checklist-based portfolio with evidence of learning and development to enhance your employability. Risk and responsibility – Apply risk assessment tools and techniques to respond to various types of risk in business. Managing business complexity – Use the knowledge and skills you have gained to solve complex business issues. Employment law – Study the law governing the employment relationship and the regulation of working life, including the influence of European law. Corporate and business law – Develop knowledge of corporate law and its legal context. Data and research methods for business – Learn research methods to support critical research in business issues.

Year 3

Strategic leadership – Extend your capacity for strategic leadership in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) business environment. Business continuity and the planet – Explore the range of contemporary challenges and threats to business continuity and environmental issues. Company law – Understand the functions of a company when running a business, and of the legal framework which regulates companies. Intellectual property law – Examine the intellectual property law of England and Wales and compare it with IP law in other jurisdictions. Business project – Independently design, plan, manage and execute a research project.

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