Year 3

Optional Modules

View optional modules available to third-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 If you have temporarily withdrawn and are in a different cohort to the original cohort you started with, please check the course information page, or email undergraduate.law@warwick.ac.uk, to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)

During your third year you will complete one compulsory module totalling 15 or 30 CATS:

Supervised Project (30 CATS) – full year
Supervised Project (15 CATS) – Term 2

You will then select 90 or 105 CATS worth of optional modules depending on the length of your Supervised Project:

Term 1: 4 optional modules (60 CATS) (if taking 15 CATS Supervised Project) or 3 optional modules (45 CATS) (if taking 30 CATS supervised project)
Term 2: 3 optional modules (45 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 (4 Year)

During your third year there are no core modules

You will then select 120 CATS of optional modules:

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

Law and Sociology

During your third year you will need to take 45 CATS of Law optional modules, and 60 CATS from the Department of Sociology.

PPL

At least 90 CATS in total from at least two of the three PPL departments.

If you elect to take modules from two departments, you must choose at least 30 CATS from each.

I.e. either a 30:60 split or a 45:45 split - NOT a 15:75 split.

If you elect to take modules from all three departments, you must choose 30 CATS from at least two of them.

i.e., a 30:30:30 split, or a 30:45:15 split – NOT a 60:15:15 split.

The PPL Dissertation can count towards satisfying your CATS requirements in one of the disciplines it covers. For example, if your dissertation is on a topic at the intersection of Law and Politics, it can count towards your CATS requirements in either Law or Politics.

You have 30 CATS of optional modules, which you may take from the PPL departments or another department in the University.

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

Law with Year Abroad in English, Law with French Law and Law with German Law Law with Humanities

During your third year you will complete one compulsory module totalling 15 or 30 CATS:

Supervised Project (30 CATS) – full year
Supervised Project (15 CATS) – Term 2

You will then select 90 or 105 CATS worth of optional modules depending on the length of your Supervised Project:

Term 1: 4 optional modules (60 CATS) (if taking 15 CATS Supervised Project) or 3 optional modules (45 CATS) (if taking 30 CATS supervised project)
Term 2: 3 optional modules (45 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
LA321: Crime and Justice
LA351 - Taxation Law, Policy and Principles*
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
LA3A3 - Law of Trusts
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
LA337: Corporations, Law and Colonialism
LA359 - Family Law
LA366 - Global Intellectual Property Law & Policy
LA367 - International Economic Law
LA371 - Corporate Tax Law
LA372 - Commercial 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
LA389: Private Rights & Wrongs
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
LA3C9 - Contemporary Issues in Trust Law*
LA3D2 - Constitutional Theory
LA399/15 - Supervised Project

Full Year (30 CATS)

LA205 - International Law
LA217 - Social Theory of Law
LA310 - Law of Business Organisations
LA390 - Public Legal Education
LA399/30 - Supervised Project

*Pre-requisites required:

For LA249 Contemporary Challenges in Contract Law (term 2) you must have studied LA247 Contract Law. This module is not available to students who have studied LA243 Contract Law
For LA351 Taxation Law, Policy and Principles you must have studied LA128 Understanding Law in Context (or LA115 Modern English Legal System)
For LA372 Commercial Law you must have studied LA247 Contract Law (or LA243 Contract Law)
LA3B5 Judicial Review is not available to students who have studied LA201 Constitutional and Administrative Law
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 LA3C9 Contemporary Issues in Trust Law you must have studied LA3A3 Law of Trusts
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.