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Undergraduate Course: International Private Law Honours (LAWS10146)

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
SummaryThis course deals with the concepts, history, sources, theories and general processes of international private law. Particular areas studied will include jurisdiction; family law; obligations; commercial law and property law.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: International Private Law Ordinary (LAWS08119)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesSome knowledge of International Private Law is recommended. Please note that you are very unlikely to get a place on an Honours Law course unless you are on a direct exchange with the School of Law (this includes Erasmus law exchange students).
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  14
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 40, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 352 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 30 %, Practical Exam 20 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Class participation (20%), Essay (30%) and exam (50%)
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)3:00
Learning Outcomes
This course involves further development at a more advanced level of the subject for which International Private Law Ordinary level was the foundation course.

It has the general learning objectives of developing deep knowledge and critical understanding of Scots International Private Law in a EU and wider comparative context.

In attaining this objective the following skills and abilities will be utilised and enhanced:

(a) Using primary and secondary legal materials;

(b) Deploying practical reasoning and argument;

(c) Appreciation of the law in its social and historical contexts;

(d) Evaluation and criticism of the law;

(e) Research, gaining knowledge and understanding which may be applied and adapted in future; and

(f) Development of the following transferable skills:

(i) communication skills, oral and in writing;
(ii) intellectual skills, of collecting, organising, evaluating, synthesising and presenting material and arguments, and including the ability to question assumptions, to frame and test hypotheses, to detect fallacies and to think autonomously;
(iii) general skills, in managing time, working independently, and taking personal responsibility for work.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Gerry Maher
Tel:
Email: gerard.maher@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Susan Leask
Tel: (0131 6)50 2344
Email: susan.leask@ed.ac.uk
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