Bachelor of Law

This module will provide you with an understanding of the principal legal features of business entities, including sole traders, partnerships and companies, and the key distinctions between them. You will also consider other obligations imposed on businesses. You are going to explore the interaction between law and modern technology as we look at the evolutionary relationship between legal rules and technological change, before considering the real substantive and ethical problems at the interface between them.

You will have the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of the key concepts of land law, particularly the resulting consequences of the distinctions between legal and equitable rights, personal and proprietary interests and registered and unregistered land. Engaging learning content will allow you to develop a critical appreciation of such concepts in a political, social, cultural and financial context. The module will expose you to an understanding of land law development in relation to the major property legislation of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as in relation to substantive matters, including the ownership of family property, the regulation of leases and the law of easements.

Through this module, you will gain an overview of English law of equity and trusts, focusing on the core development of equitable doctrines and the ever-increasing role that equity plays in commercial and social life.

This module will further develop your understanding of contractual principles and introduces a number of important and interrelated areas of domestic commercial law including the law of contract in the commercial context, sale of goods, agency, and dispute resolution. You will develop a portfolio of important skills linked directly to employability in this profession. 

You will learn how corporations and financial markets function both locally and internationally, and under what circumstances the regulation of competition may benefit consumers. A variety of mechanisms exist to ensure that pro-competitive measures are adopted (and sometimes enforced) in the marketplace. You will be introduced to these concepts and mechanisms, by not only looking at the most common traditional forms of anti-competitive conduct and how they are regulated, but also newer developments in the field. The module will also explore the institutional, constitutional and substantive law of the European Union to highlight the key features of the European legal order and its links with the UK legal system post-Brexit.

This module will provide you with an understanding of the role of a commercial lawyer, the principles of project management (organisational skill, risk awareness and management) and an example of their application in a corporate transaction. You will deepen your understanding of the business environment, enabling you to successfully practise in law or in the broader business environment with the necessary knowledge of the corporate setting and your role within it. The module will offer you an opportunity to develop commercial awareness and core employability skills that reflect a contemporary view of innovation in legal services.

The module will enable you to build essential knowledge of the legal elements of intellectual property that are relevant to activity on the internet, and also establish your awareness of the key commercial issues of intellectual property in the context of the online commercial environment. The module also establishes the skills you will require to analyse the governance structure of new technologies and evaluate the emerging issues concerning new technologies (e.g. robotics, AI) concerning their legal, societal and policy implications (e.g. data protection, liability, ethics, consumer protection).

This module will enable you to explore fraud, bribery, and corruption, from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Through a case study approach, the occurrence of fraud, bribery and corruption will be analysed to explore their meaning, cultural context, and impact on organisations and society. In terms of criminal law, the module will provide you with the principles of criminal law not covered in liability in Crime and Tort. You will consider a range of criminal offences, applying those principles, and also consider the practical application of criminal law to client advice and court procedures.