Global Legal Studies

About this course

Global legal studies is a degree that takes the study of law out of the purely national context in which it is usually taught and examines it as a phenomenon that operates across and between legal systems, shaped by international institutions, transnational norms, and the globalisation of commerce, human rights, and governance. It asks how law operates at the international and transnational level, how different legal traditions, including common law and civil law systems, interact and converge, what the role of global institutions such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation, and the International Criminal Court is, and how law addresses the genuinely global challenges of climate change, migration, and corporate accountability. At the University of Newcastle, you will study global legal studies over four years of full-time study. The programme includes core legal content cov

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