Year 4

Optional Modules

View optional modules available to fourth-year students, by course.

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

During your fourth 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 fourth 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)

Law and Sociology

During your fourth 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 Law or Sociology 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)

IMPORTANT: A requirement of this degree is that at over years 3 and 4 students must take least 90 CATS of each Law and Sociology modules.

Students can take up to 30 CATS of non-Law or Sociology optional 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
LA403 - Dissertation for Final Year Law (half module)
LA407 - Dramatised Dissertation (half module)

Full Year (30 CATS)

LA205 - International Law
LA310 - LOBO
LA217 - Social Theory of Law
LA390 - Public Legal Education
LA402 - Dissertation for Final Year Law (full course)
LA404 - Dissertation on Approved Joint Topic
LA406 - Dramatised Dissertation

*Pre-requisites required

For LA351 Taxation Law, Policy and Principles you must have studied LA128 Understanding Law in Context (orLA115 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 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.