Law with European Study LLB

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

You will take modules adding up to 120 credits each year. In either your second or third year, you may also choose to take 30 credits in a subject outside law, subject to prior approval.

Year 1 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits LAW1036Legal Foundations 30 LAW1004Contract Law30 LAW1035Constitutional and Administrative Law 30 Optional modules

30 credits of language modules relevant to the country in which your third year will be spent.

CodeModuleCredits French Modules MLF1105Reason and Existence: An Introduction to French Thought15 MLF1119French Cinema from the New Wave to the Present Day15 MLF1001French Language30 MLF1121French Visual History15 MLF1014Love and Death in French Culture15 MLF1103The French Language, Present and Past15 MLF1015War and Conflict in French Literature15 German Modules MLG1015Representations of Education in German Literature and Film: Satire, Trauma, Melodrama15 MLG1016War, Passion and Possibly Love: Approaches to Genre in German Literature15 MLG1017Turning Points in German History 1200 - 200015 MLG1018Nature and the City in German Literature, Visual Arts and Film15 Italian Modules MLI1001Italian Language30 MLI1022Italian Literature of the 20th Century15 MLI1052Italian Language for Beginners30 MLI1055Introduction to Italian Linguistics15 MLI1121A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy15 MLI1420The Pursuit of Italy in 19th-Century Literature15 Spanish Modules MLS1001Spanish Language30 MLS1012Contemporary Latin America: Culture, Society and Institutions15 MLS1016Gender Perspectives15 MLS1017Hispanic Journeys into the Unknown15 MLS1020Memory & Identity in Twentieth Century Spain15 MLS1022The Outsider in Hispanic Texts15 MLS1023Spain since the Transition: Society, Politics and Culture 15 MLS1056Spanish Language for Beginners30 MLS1062Introduction to the History of the Spanish Language15 MLS1063Cultural Icons of the Portuguese-speaking World15 MLS1064An Introduction to the Hispanic World: Texts in Context15 Year 2 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits LAW2017Land Law 30 LAW2034European Union Law 30 LAW2015Law of Torts 30 Optional modules

30 credits of language modules relevant to the country in which your third year will be spent.

CodeModuleCredits French Modules MLF2001French Language, Written and Oral30 MLF2012Evolution of the French Language15 MLF2029Varieties of French15 MLF2042Introduction to Post Colonial Francophone Cinema15 MLF2048Humour in Medieval and Early Modern France15 MLF2053French Theatre of the Avant-Garde15 MLF2056Provoking Thoughts: French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century15 MLF2063Crime and Punishment in French Fiction15 MLF2065Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates15 MLF2066Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment15 MLF2067Gender and Resistance: Contemporary Women's Writing in French15 MLF2069East is East? Cross-Cultural Encounters in Medieval French Literature15 MLF2068 Telling Stories: Narrative Strategies in 19th- and 20th-century Fiction in French15 German Modules MLG2001German Language Written and Oral30 MLG2018Berlin - Culture, History and Politics since 193315 MLG2038Comic Perspectives on German History in Literature and Film15 MLG2042Ideologies and Identities in German Cinema15 MLG2044Thinking about the German Language: Past and Present15 MLG2045Protest, Priests and Princes: Germany in the Early Modern Period15 Italian Modules MLI2001Italian Language (ex-advanced)30 MLI2008Introduction to Dante: Inferno15 MLI2015History and Fictions of Fascism15 MLI2051Italian Language (ex-beginners)30 Spanish Modules MLS2001Spanish Language30 MLS2032Introduction to Commercial Spanish15 MLS2045Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry15 MLS2048Spanish Film Under Franco15 MLS2053Franco's Spain: Narratives under Dictatorship15 MLS2058An Introduction to Portuguese30 MLS2060Love and Death in Spanish Theatre15 MLS2061Mystery, Magic and the Fantastic in the Latin American Short Story15 MLS2063Introduction to Catalan Language & Culture30 MLS2065Portuguese as a Global Language15 MLS2066Variety and Unity in the Spanish Golden Age15 MLS2067Spain from Democracy to Dictatorship: Republic, Civil War and Francoism, 1931 - 1953 15 MLS2156Spanish Language (post-beginners)30 Year 3

Your third year will be spent at the law faculty of one of our European partner institutions. Your study hours will be set by the host institution and you will undertake modules equivalent to 120 credits. You will be required to show appropriate evidence of satisfactory attendance and performance during your year abroad.

Year 4 Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits LAW3041Trusts 30 LAW3003Criminal Law 30 Optional modules

You will choose optional modules worth 60 credits. If you wish, you may substitute 30 law credits for options in another subject.

CodeModuleCredits LAW3003Criminal Law30 LAW3007Criminal Law and Theory: Part I Foundations15 LAW3010The Lawyer, Ethics and Popular Culture15 LAW3011Gender, Sexuality and Law15 LAW3019Commercial Law30 LAW3020Family Law30 LAW3024Public International Law 30 LAW3026Employment Law 30 LAW3028Intellectual Property30 LAW3032Law of Obligations II30 LAW3043Company Law30 LAW3047Dissertation30 LAW3047AComparative Law Dissertation30 LAW3051French Law of Contracts30 LAW3059Alternative Dispute Resolution15 LAW3066Medical Ethics and Law15 LAW3068Law and Literature 15 LAW3072Aspects of Evidence 15 LAW3083Company Law Foundation 15 LAW3133Environment and Planning Law15 LAW3134Forensic Speech and Language15 LAW3137Lethal Force, the ECHR and Democracy15 LAW3146International Law, Conflict and Strategy 30 LAW3146AInternational Law, Conflict and Strategy (PIL) 30 LAW3148Human Rights Law: The European Convention On Human Rights30 LAW3149Literature and Legal Philosophy 30