Faculty Launches Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL)

The MCL team: E Ferran, R Nolan, B Cheffins & J Kirshner

The Law Faculty is launching in 2012-13 a new Masters degree in Corporate Law (the MCL). The MCL will be the first entirely new degree in Law to be established by Cambridge University since the nineteenth century and is at the heart of the Faculty’s strategy to maintain its position as a world class law school by combining an innovative approach to legal education with a commitment to academic excellence.

The MCL, which will operate as a full-time nine-month programme, will offer students the opportunity to engage in detailed study of the legal and regulatory framework within which companies are governed and financed. The MCL, which will cover key fields such as corporate governance, regulation of financial markets and pensions, will offer a wider and more diverse range of corporate courses than a typical Masters degree programme. A central feature of the MCL is that the course will extend beyond analysis of legal rules and provide students with the opportunity to understand how “real world” corporate deals are structured and run.

The MCL will be taught by the Cambridge Law Faculty's team of corporate lawyers, widely recognized as one of the strongest in the corporate law field. With the MCL cohort being limited to approximately 30 students per year, there will be ample opportunities for student participation and interaction.

The MCL will begin accepting applications for 2012-13 in September 2011.

Further details are currently offered on the Law Faculty’s website, with full information concerning the MCL to be made available shortly.