Graduate Entry Law LLB

• English Legal System (15 credits)

  The aim of this module is to ensure that you have a sufficient understanding of the English legal system. Some of the topics you will explore include sources of law, law making and legislation, the court structure, dispute resolution, and appeals.

• Constitutional and Administrative law (30 credits)

  This module considers the essential elements of UK public law, taking an historical and theoretical approach. It analyses how governmental power is allocated in the modern constitution, and assesses the extent to which that allocation meets contemporary understandings of democratic governance.

• Contract Law (30 credits)

  In this module you will learn about the process of legal reasoning and analysis regarding contract formation and enforcement. You will acquire legal skills in understanding, interpreting and applying sources of information including statutes, case law and academic commentary.

• Criminal Law (30 credits)

  In this module you will move beyond a superficial, journalistic understanding of the criminal law, and develop an in depth knowledge of how the law is actually applied in the courts. This includes the core offences and defences in criminal law.

• Tort Law (30 credits)

  This module aims to provide you with knowledge and understanding the substantive law of tort and the wider policy issues surrounding the development, history and reform of tort law.

• Equity and Trusts (30 credits)

  In this module you will study the fundamental principles of Equity as a system of law and its relationship with the Common Law and learn to appreciate the relevance of Equity in a modern context.

• European Union Law (15 credits)

  This module aims to provide you with knowledge and understanding of aspects of EU substantive law. You will gain knowledge of EU political institutions, and the Court of Justice and its jurisdiction, as well as the relationship between EU Law and National Law.

• Land Law (30 credits)

  This module will cover the general principles of land law, including an understanding of the main problems and issues in contemporary land law. You will cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to, freehold and leasehold estates, mortgages, co-ownership, and conveyancing.

Please note the list of available electives is subject to change due to lecturer availability and student numbers.

• Advanced Issues in International Law (15 credits)

  This module focuses on a number of issues in the context of public international law. You will develop a deep and critical understanding of the rules and principles of the international legal system, along with their complex relationship with international politics.

• Canadian Constitutional Law – Foundational Principles (15 credits)

  This module explores some of the major issues in Canadian constitutional law. The module addresses the creation of Canada as a nation in 1867, examines the terms of the original constitutional settlement and analyses the radical changes made to the constitution in 1982.

• Canadian Law of Business Organisations (15 credits)

  This module will examine the core concepts of Canadian corporate law. In addition, you will gain a conceptual overview of business associations, and explore the rights and responsibilities of stakeholders, directors and officers.

• Child Law (15 credits)

  In this module you will gain a thorough understanding of the core legal principles and policy considerations governing child law in England and Wales. This includes topics such as legal parenthood, adoption, private disputes over children and removal of neglected children.

• Media Law (15 credits)

  This module offers you the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of a specialised area of legal study, media law.

• Competition Law (15 credits)

  In this module you will explore EU and UK competition law and how it affects business life. You learn about oversight of coordination between businesses; control of unilateral abuses by dominant market actors, and assessing the impact of mergers between firms.

• International Economic Law (15 credits)

  This module is intended to discuss key legal themes and issues in International Economic Law, which is the public and private international law governing the relations between states and companies with respect to economic issues, namely international trade, investment, monetary policy and development.

• EU Law and the Global Legal Order (15 credits)

  This module analyses the relationship between the internal EU legal order and the global legal order, with a view to understanding the constitutional foundations of the EU’s place in the global legal order.

• Law of Domestic Sales (15 credits)

  In this module, you will learn about the rights and obligations of buyers and sellers, acting as businesses and consumers, in transactions involving the sale and supply of goods, services and digital content.

• Movement of Products and People into and within the EU (15 credits)

  This module covers some of the legal principles and rules adopted by the European Union institutions to achieve the internal market, secure labour migration, and set regulatory standards to protect consumers and other interests in that market.

• Cross Border Commercial Law (15 credits)

  The module will examine how commercial legal concepts are described and applied in specific areas of commercial transactions.

• Labour Law (15 credits)

  Through reading and writing an essay you will develop your understanding of some of the theoretical debates in this area. You will also learn how to solve topical Employment Law problems.

• Human Rights Law in the UK (15 credits)

  This module facilitates the understanding of the reach and limitations of human rights law, as well as providing cross-subject expertise necessary in every area of legal practice.

• International Banking Law (15 credits)

  In this module you will gain an in-depth knowledge and understanding of many of the important transactions and clauses in International banking law. You will also learn about the litigation (case law) connected with entering into such transactions.

• International Commercial Arbitration (15 credits)

  The aim of this module is to give you a detailed understanding of the practice and normative framework of international commercial arbitration (ICA) and its roots in national and international law as well as in international business customs.

• International Criminal Law (15 credits)

  This module looks at how we deal with the worst atrocities on the international scale. You will explore the main institutions of international criminal law, especially the International Criminal Court, and the core international crimes, especially genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

• International Human Rights Law (15 credits)

  This module offers an introduction to international human rights law in a legal and political context. It provides an overview of various international human rights standards and of the international and regional mechanisms that work to implement them.

• Medical Law and Bioethics (15 credits)

• Introduction to the Solicitor’s Professional Qualification (15 credits)

  This module will provide you with a foundation of practice-based knowledge required as preparation for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), Part 1. Areas covered include, ethics, dispute resolution, property, commercial and corporate law, wills and administration of estates and criminal practice.

• Justice Law and History (15 credits)

  This module examines significant events in legal history. You are encouraged you to think critically about important issues raised by historical phenomena. Topics include witchcraft trials in medieval Europe, the Nuremberg trials, Brown v Board of Education, and Korematsu v United States.

• Law of Evidence - The Evidential Implications of Criminal Investigation (15 credits)

  This module should provide you with an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the evidential implications of criminal investigation, including confession evidence, the right to silence, and illegally obtained evidence.

• Law of Evidence: Safeguarding Reliability and Protecting Witnesses (15 credits)

  This module will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of principles of the law of evidence that are concerned with ensuring the reliability of evidence and protecting witnesses. This will include examination-in-chief and cross-examination, sexual history evidence, hearsay, and character evidence.

• Global Issues in Corporate Law (15 credits)

  This module explores selected key topics in corporate law that arise from the significant role of large companies as international actors in global markets. The module provides an overview of the economic and institutional dynamics that influence the use and control of decision-making power in large (typically, publicly traded) companies.

• Maritime Law (15 credits)

  The aim of the module is to develop knowledge, skills and understanding in the field of maritime law. This includes the jurisdiction and security powers of the court, limitation of liability, collision and salvage principles, ownership and registration of ships, and shipbuilding contracts.

• The Canadian Charter of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (15 credits)

  In this module you will explore Canada’s 1982 Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. You will study several thematic issues arising from the Charter; notably the questions of proportionality review and the separation of powers between the courts and the legislatures.

• International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law

  This module will provide you with a thorough grounding and critical appreciation of the relationship between international, regional and national IP law and allied rights in key jurisdictions.

• Law, Race and Colonialism (15 credits)

  The aim of this module is to examine the complex relationships between colonialism, race and law. Based on the premise that law is central to the constitution of social life, political meaning, cultural and economic relations, the module will explore the role law has played in producing histories of violence and present situations of social inequality.

• Dissertation (30 credits)

  This is a piece of independent work drawing from the knowledge gained from the Law programme and elsewhere. You will be guided by your supervisor on how best to extend and apply this knowledge.