PCL is one of the four Departments in the Faculty of Law. The department was carved out of the then Department of Public and Private Law which was established in 1987. In 1988, the PCL was officially created. The Department participates in the Faculty’s administration of the LLB program. Accordingly, our members of staff teach different LLB courses such as Commercial Law, Law of Contract, Family Law, Company Law, Equity and Trust, Succession and Administration of Estates, etc.
At the Postgraduate level, the Department administers PhD, LLM (Private and Commercial Law) and Masters in Business and Commercial Law (MBCL). Both the PhD and the LLM are full time programs designed and structured to develop highly skilled and research-oriented lawyers for the public and private sectors. The MBCL is a flexible, part-time program designed to suit the convenience of career professionals. The department believes that the key to a satisfying and enhancing PG experience is candidate’s choice in broad areas. In line with this, the PG programs offer unique opportunity to both academic-oriented and practicing lawyers, business specialists and those aspiring to explore the expanding fields of private and commercial laws.
Recent years have witnessed the globalisation of trade and investment, the emergence of new markets, increasing trans-border merger and acquisition activities, and the growing convergence of trade, finance and global corporate governance. At the other private end of the spectrum, the impact of globalisation has increased the movement of persons from one jurisdiction to another which also creates an interaction of private laws of various jurisdictions.
Our PG Modules deal with the global and regional regulation of international trade, structuring and managing business transactions, and the economic foundations of trade and corporate laws as well as private relations. They also touch issues of conflict of private laws. The aims include providing advanced instruction in key aspects of private and commercial laws that are of particular contemporary relevance and which will benefit and interest students aspiring for a robust career in academics and other public and private sectors of the economy.