LLM international commercial law admission practice interview
Legal reasoning, research interests and readiness to study cross-border contracts, trade disputes and commercial regulation at postgraduate level. Practise the 5 questions admissions panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the programme
This interview assesses whether you are ready for advanced study of cross-border business law. The panel is interested in your grasp of legal principles, your ability to weigh competing authorities and the questions you hope to investigate, rather than a memorised survey of every trade rule.
How to prepare
- Review the contract, jurisdiction and dispute resolution principles most relevant to your stated interests.
- Read a recent commercial law judgment and note the reasoning you found persuasive or incomplete.
- Turn one broad interest into a focused research question with a clear legal problem.
- Practise comparing litigation and arbitration without treating either as suitable for every dispute.
- Choose examples that show how you research authorities and construct a written argument.
Common mistakes
- Reciting legal definitions without applying them to the facts in the question.
- Describing international commercial law so broadly that no research focus emerges.
- Treating arbitration as automatically quicker, cheaper or better than litigation.
- Making confident claims about foreign law without identifying the need for reliable authority.
What to expect
A real admissions interview
5 questions the way admissions panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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