English Law & German Law

Currently, students study the modules shown below. King's reviews its modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School for further advice.

Courses are divided into modules. In year 1 at King's you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

You are required to take the following modules for this course. In addition, and depending on your language skills, you will participate in a German legal language course (non-credit bearing), provided by our Modern Language Centre exclusively for students on the Anglo-German LLB course.

• Legal Reasoning and Legal Services (non-credit bearing)
• German Public Law (30 credits) - classes and examinations are conducted in German

uring your second year, you will take 120 credits if you are taking the LLM option or 150 credits if you are taking the First State Exam.

The following 30-credit modules are required for this course. In addition to the required modules and depending on language skills, students continue to attend the German legal language course offered by the Modern Language Centre.

• German Civil Law (30 credits) - classes and examinations are conducted in German
• German Criminal Law (30 credits) required for students who want to pursue the First State Exam pathway at Humboldt University, classes and examinations are conducted in German.

You will spend Year 3 at Humboldt University, following either the First State Exam or LLM option. If you choose the LLM option you will return to King’s in Year 4.

If you are following the First State Exam course you will spend your fourth year at Humboldt University.

If you are following the LLM course you will return to King’s.

For the LLM course the following 30-credit module is required in Year 4:

• Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

In addition, you will choose optional modules worth 90 credits in total from a range of options, which may typicallly include:

• Advanced Constitutional Law (30 credits)
• Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property (30 credits)
• Anti-Discrimination Law (30 credits)
• British Legal History (30 credits)
• Commercial Law (30 credits)
• Company Law (30 credits)
• Comparative Private Law (15 credits)
• Competition Law (30 credits)
• Consumer Protection: advising global businesses and their customers (30 credits)
• Criminal Law Theory (15 credits)
• Criminology and Criminal Justice (30 credits)
• Environmental Law (30 credits)
• Family Law (30 credits)
• Finance, Credit and Security (15 credits)
• French Legal System and Laws (15 credits)
• Hot Topics in Law, Technology & Society (15 credits)
• Human Rights Law (30 credits)
• Intellectual Property Law (30 credits)
• International Commercial Arbitration (15 credits)
• Labour Law (30 credits)
• Law and Economics (30 credits)
• Law and Social Theory (30 credits)
• Law of Personal Taxation (30 credits)
• Machine Intelligence, Surveillance & Society (15 credits)
• Medical Law (30 credits)
• Moral Philosophy (15 credits)
• Principles of Enterprise Governance (30 credits)
• Private International Law (30 credits)
• Public International Law (30 credits)
• Russian Legal System (30 credits)
• Student Law Clinic (15 credits)
• Transnational Company Law (15 credits)