Year 2

Optional Modules

View optional modules available to second-year students, by course. If you have temporarily withdrawn and are in a different cohort to the original cohort you started with, please check the course information page, or email undergraduate.law@warwick.ac.uk, to check how many optional modules you should be taking in 2025/26.

Law (3 Year), Law (4 Year) and Law with Year Abroad in English

During your second year you will complete two compulsory modules totalling 30 CATS:

LA247: Contract Law (15 CATS) – Term 1
LA248: Property Law (15 CATS) – Term 1

You will then select 90 CATS of optional modules from the optional modules below, of which up to 30 CATS can be external modules.

Term 1: 2 optional modules (30 CATS)
Term 2: 4 optional modules (60 CATS)

If you are thinking of qualifying as a solicitor or barrister in England or Wales, or in another jurisdiction requiring the study of foundational subjects, you should choose LA240 Foundations of European Law in Years 2 or 3, and LA3A3 Law of Trusts in your final year. Students wishing to qualify in another jurisdiction should check the minimum credit requirements for the foundational subjects and, if necessary, consult their personal tutor for guidance.

Law with French Law and German Law

During your second year you will complete three compulsory modules totalling 60 CATS:

LA247: Contract Law (15 CATS) – Term 1
LA248: Property Law (15 CATS) – Term 1
LA212: French Law or LA216: German Law (30 CATS) – full year

You will then select an additional 60 CATS from the optional modules below. Of the 60 CATS, you can select up to 15 CATS of external modules.

Term 1: 1 optional module (15 CATS)
Term 2: 3 optional modules (45 CATS)

Law and Sociology

During your second year you will complete the following compulsory modules totalling 105 CATS:

LA104: Criminal Law (30 CATS) – full year
LA217: Social Theory of Law (30 CATS) – full year
LA247: Contract Law (15 CATS) – Term 1
SO242: Designing and Conducting Social Research (15 CATS) – Term 1
Either SO243: Practice & Interpretation of Quantitative Research (15 CATS) OR SO245: Modern Social Theory (15 CATS) – Term 2

You will then select an additional 15 CATS from the optional modules below

Term 2: 1 optional module (15 CATS)

Politics, Philosophy and Law

During your second year you will take 30 CATS of Law modules. Choose one of:

LA104: Criminal Law (30 CATS), if not taken in first year – full year
LA124: Tort Law (30 CATS), if not taken in first year – full year
LA129: Law, State and Individual (30 CATS) – full year
LA205: International Law (30 CATS) – full year
LA346: Gender and the Law (30 CATS)- full year

You will then select 30 CATS of optional modules, which you may take from any of the PPL departments or another department in the university

Term 1: 1 optional module (15 CATS)
Term 2: 1 optional module (15 CATS)

Law modules below, modules from other departments can be found on the PPL module information page.

Law with Humanities

During your second year you will complete two compulsory modules totalling 30 CATS:

LA247: Contract Law (15 CATS) – Term 1
LA248: Property Law (15 CATS) – Term 1

You will then select 90 CATS of optional modules from the optional modules below, of which up to 30 CATS can be external modules.

Term 1: 2 optional modules (30 CATS)
Term 2: 4 optional modules (60 CATS)

A requirement of this degree is students must take least 90 CATS of modules from the Faculty of Arts or Department of Philosophy, and 120 CATS Law modules across years 2 and 3 (60/75 CATS Law optional modules depending on the length of your supervised project). The remaining 30 CATS of modules in years 2 and 3 can be Law, Humanities or modules from other departments.

View 2025/26 Modules

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Modules Available

Term 1 (15 CATS)

LA227 - Introduction to Competition Law
LA308: Social Welfare Law in the Community
LA319: Regulation and Technology Governance
LA358 - Child Law
LA363 - Climate Change and Law
LA365: Financial Services Regulation
LA374: Crime and Punishment
LA381 - Writing Human Rights
LA393 - Transitional Justice
LA398 - History of Philosophy of Law
LA3A6: Labour Law in Context
LA3B3 - The Law of Wars
LA3B5: Judicial Review and Administrative Justice*
LA3C3: Gender, Sexuality and the Law*
LA3C6: Intellectual Property Law: Patents & Confidential Information
LA3D1 - Corruption and Law

Term 2 (15 CATS)

LA240 - Foundations of European Law
LA249 - Contemporary Challenges in Contract Law
LA320 - Comparative Human Rights
LA333- Medicine and Law
LA334: Jurisprudence
LA359 - Family Law
LA366 - Global Intellectual Property Law & Policy
LA367 - International Economic Law
LA373 - Criminal Evidence
LA380 - Art and Cultural Heritage Law
LA383: Issues in the Legal History of Race
LA384 - The Art of Advocacy: Mooting and Forensic
LA391: Data: Law and Governance
LA392 - Shakespeare and the Law
LA396 - Modern Challenges for English Family Law
LA3A7 - Restorative Justice
LA3A9: Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property
LA3B6 - Cinematic Explorations of Public Law*
LA3C4: Gender & the Law in the Global Context*
LA3C5 - Charities, Civil Society and the Law
LA3C7: Intellectual Property Law: Copyright and Trade Marks
LA3D2 - Constitutional Theory

Full Year (30 CAT)

LA205 - International Law
LA217 - Social Theory of Law
LA390 - Public Legal Education

* Pre-requisites required

For LA249 Contemporary Challenges in Contract Law (term 2) you must have studied LA247 Contract Law (term 1)
For LA251 Contemporary Challenges in Property Law (term 2) you must have studied LA248 Property Law (term 1)
For LA3B5 Judicial Review (term 1) you must have studied LA129 Law, State and Individual
For LA3B6 Cinematic Explorations of Public Law you must have studied LA129 Law, State and Individual (or LA201 General Principles of Constitutional & Administrative Law)
For LA3C3 Gender, Sexuality and the Law (term 1) and LA3C4 Gender and the Law in the Global context (term 2) these modules are not available for any students who have previously taken LA346 Gender and the Law.