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Undergraduate Course: Jurisprudence (LAWS08085)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaLaw Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe course studies law as an institutional normative order within a philosophical and sociological context. Firstly it asks how law to be seen as a system. What does it mean to say that the law is normative and does that presuppose a particular standard of behaviour? Secondly it looks at concepts within the law such as property, contract, responsibility and analyses them within a philosophical and sociological context
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 11:10 - 12:00
CentralLecture1-11 11:10 - 12:00
First Class Week 1, Monday, 11:10 - 12:00, Zone: Central. David Hume Tower, LT B
Additional information tutorial attendance is required
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)1:30
Resit Exam Diet (August)1:30
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1) WebCT enabled:  No Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 11:10 - 12:00
CentralLecture1-11 11:10 - 12:00
First Class Week 1, Monday, 11:10 - 12:00, Zone: Central. David Hume Tower, LT B
Additional information tutorial attendance is required
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Paper 11:30
Resit Exam Diet (August)Paper 2 Resit1:30
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is to enable students (most of you from the Faculty of Law, but some from other faculties, and some from other Universities, whether in Europe or elsewhere) to form a wider understanding, each from your own point of view, of the nature and working of the law as a central feature of human societies. It is an important objective of the course that you should develop your own opinions about the subjects discussed; agreement with the opinions of those teaching the course is neither expected nor desired, far less required for the passing of examinations. On the other hand, opinions are expected to be well-informed ones, and therefore adequate knowledge of the theories and positions discussed in the course is a prerequisite of success.


1 To think critically about the law
2 To develop skills in working independently through the ability critically to read texts and gathering and analysing evidence to support arguments



Assessment Information
100% Examination April diet
Visiting Student Variant Assessment
One written assignment (100%), 2,500 words
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiserMr Burkhard Schafer
Tel: (0131 6)50 2035
Email: B.Schafer@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Mary Conn
Tel: (0131 6)50 9776
Email: Mary.Conn@ed.ac.uk
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