Visiting Students
Visiting Students
Optional Modules
Visiting students attending Warwick must take four modules per term, this equates to 120 CATS (60 ECTS) for the full year or 60 CATS (30 ECTS) for half year.
You will have to choose an even split of credits/modules for each term, bearing in mind that 30 CATS (15 ECTS) modules run over two terms and 15 CATS (7.5 ECTS) modules run over only one term.
The Certificate of English Law (CEL) will NOT be offered in 2025/26, as the programme is currently under revision.
Module registration information
The Law School uses a pre-registration system to avoid running a ‘first come, first served’ system, so you can take your time to consider which modules are right for you, provided your choices are in before the deadline. The first deadline for module pre-registration for external students is Friday 30 May.
If your place at Warwick is confirmed after 30 May, please fill in the form as soon as possible, but some modules may have already run out of places.
Please indicate on the module pre-registration form for visiting students your four preferred choices for each term (totalling the number of optional module CATS required) plus at least the same number of reserve optional modules.
NB 30 CATS modules run across the full year, so should be included in your totals for terms 1 and 2.
If you decide that you want to do a dissertation, either as a full or a half module, please provide a suggestion for a topic, so we can allocate a dissertation supervisor before your arrival.
If there is no objection from your home university, you should be able to choose up to 30 CATS (15 ECTS) of external modules offered by other departments at Warwick. (If you have any doubt about this matter, please check the requirements from your home department). If you are interested in an external module, you must check with the responsible department if there is a place available for the desired module; it may take some time before you receive a confirmation.
Meanwhile, we request you to add any external module to your Alternative Module Choices list. As soon as we receive a confirmation from the responsible department, we will proceed with the changes needed.
Please think carefully when choosing your modules as changes will not be permitted on your arrival without the approval of the Director of International Programmes. Approval will only be given for genuine reasons.
Module registration frequently asked questions
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
LA403 - Dissertation for Final Year Law (half module)
LA407 - Dramatised Dissertation (half module)
Full Year (30 CAT)
LA104 – Criminal Law
LA124- Tort Law
LA128 – Understanding the Law in Context
LA129 – Law, State and the Individual
LA205 - International Law
LA217 - Social Theory of Law
LA310 – Law of Business Organisations
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 LA249 Contemporary Challenges in Contract Law you must have studied LA247 Contract Law (term 1)
- LA251 Contemporary Challenges in Property Law (term 2) you must have studied LA248 Property Law (term 1)
- For LA372 Commercial Law (term 2) you must have studied LA247 Contract Law (term 1)
- For LA3C9 Contemporary Issues in Trust Law (term 2) you must have studied LA3A3 Law of Trusts (term 1)
View 2025/26 Modules
View module webpages for modules running in 2025/26.