Department of Mercantile Law

The Department of Mercantile Law is one of the six departments in the School of Law. The department provides training to undergraduate law students in the vital area of business law. The main objective of the department is to produce a student who will be equipped to use the law in the world of commerce or business. The department does not offer law only to law students but also to B(com) and BA(admin) students from the School of Management Sciences. These students are offered Commercial Law and Labour Law respectively.  The department also periodically offers seminars to the University and local communities on labour law issues affecting employers and employees.

The department offers a wide selection of modules and these cover broad areas of mercantile law such as:

• Banking law
• Business entities
• Competition law
• Labour law
• Legal relationships created by commercial transactions
• Tax law

In line with the department’s objective the module outlined below are meant to provide the student with a strong grounding in areas of law relating to business or commerce. The modules are likely to be relevant to a law and commerce graduate whatever career they follow.

The Head of Department is Mrs Puleng Letuka.