Introduction to Law and to Finance

This course provides sufficient knowledge of the main ideas and methods used in law and finance for students (whose academic background is very likely to lie either in Law or in Finance but not in both), to proceed with both the Law-based and the Finance-based courses making up the remainder of the MSc degree. In Finance, the course aims to present the main ideas and methods in mathematics that are used in financial analysis. The emphasis throughout is on the applications of the mathematical concepts to finance. In Law, the course provides the foundations of legal knowledge necessary for those students with no knowledge of law as well as an introduction to the common law for those students with a civilian law qualification. The emphasis is on the fundamental commercial subjects.