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Undergraduate Course: Law, Democracy and Citizenship (LAWS10064)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThe aim of this course is to encourage students to think critically about the ways in which law relates to the formation and legitimation of the political communities in which we live. In particular, it asks how law contributes both to the 'who' and the 'how' of political community. In what ways is the construction of legal and constitutional order at different sites important to the various different levels of political community formation in the contemporary world - the state, the sub-state nation or region, the supranational (e.g. EU) and even the international or global? How, more generally, does law help to generate, or impede, understandings and practices of citizenship, or 'membership', and how does it encourage, or impede, democratic decision-making, more generally? Behind these questions lie even more general and deeper questions about the contemporary role of law and its relationship to politics. One the one hand, is law better able to reflect and convey some models of political community (e.g. liberal models) and the ideas of citizenship and democracy associated with these, than it can others (e.g. socialist or other communitarian models)? On the other hand, does the increasing dispersal of law to sites other than the traditional state site place a new and perhaps unmanageable burden upon law in general in the formation and legitimation of political community?
There are a number of possible affinities and synergies between this course and other Honours options - including Constitutional Law and Justice, Ethics and the Law
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
The Course is concerned with the relation of law to political community. With how law contributes to the viability and legitimacy of the political communities within which we live. It has these learning objectives:

1) To develop knowledge and understanding of how law contributes to the
formation and practice of citizenship and to the development of democracy;

2) To enable students critically to discuss and evaluate for themselves
value positions with regard to the relationship between law and politics.


Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsLaw Democracy
Contacts
Course organiserProf Neil Walker
Tel:
Email: neil.walker@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Heather Haig
Tel: (0131 6)50 2053
Email: Heather.Haig@ed.ac.uk
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