Post Graduate Diploma Corporate and Commercial Law

The University of the West Indies (UWI) Master of Laws programme provides advanced legal education leading to a graduate qualification. It is aimed at legal practitioners, academics, legislative draftspersons, and students of law seeking higher qualifications. The Corporate and Commercial Law programme aims to enhance the ability of lawyers and other qualified persons working in the corporate and financial services sector throughout the region to function more effectively in such areas as Corporate Law, Offshore Financial Law, Corporate Finance, Insolvency Law and Intellectual Property Law. It equips them to address the issues and problems arising in these areas, to serve as legal advisors and policy advisors to clients, including corporate clients and regional Governments, and to be better placed to undertake complex litigation before international tribunals, ordinary courts and the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).The programme lays the foundation for lawyers to contribute to the development of a Caribbean jurisprudence in the area of corporate and commercial law.