DPT: Law and History (LLB Hons) (UTLAWHI)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Students wishing to pursue qualification to progress towards legal practice in Scotland should note the courses required as indicated in the Degree Programme Table for the LLB Honours (years 1 and 2).

Before selecting any optional courses please ensure that you have met your Personal Tutor.

Please note, students who may be retaking a compulsory course, or has chosen to do so for professionally qualifying reasons, it is possible that there may be timetable clashes.

Compulsory courses

Scottish Legal System

Must be passed

Public Law of the UK and Scotland

Must be passed

Contract and Unjustified Enrichment

Must be passed

Family Law (Ordinary)

Must be passed

European Union Law (Ordinary) A

Must be passed

Critical Legal Thinking

Must be passed

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

Course options

Making of the Modern World

Early Modern History: A Connected World

Medieval Worlds: A Journey through the Middle Ages

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Before selecting your optional courses please ensure that you have met your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed

Course options

Students wishing to progress towards legal practice should note that passes in the following courses are required to qualify as a solicitor in Scotland: 'Commercial Law (Ordinary) LAWS08131', 'Business Entities LAWS08134', 'Public Law and Individual Rights LAWS08132', 'Evidence (Ordinary) LAWS08141', 'Delict LAWS08135', 'Criminal Law (Ordinary) LAWS08142'; 'Property Law (Ordinary) LAWS08133', and 'Succession and Trust Law LAWS08130'. All 80 credits of optional courses can therefore be drawn from Law Level 8 courses.

Revenue Law

International Private Law Ordinary

Jurisprudence

Succession and Trust Law

Commercial Law (Ordinary)

Public Law and Individual Rights

Property Law (Ordinary)

Business Entities

Delict

Evidence (Ordinary)

Criminal Law (Ordinary)

AND

Modern United States History

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

AND

The Human Skeleton in Archaeology and Forensic Science: Investigating Death and the Dead

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

The Making of the Modern Body

The Global Economy since 1750

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Greats: From Plato to the Enlightenment

History of Medicine 1

History of Science 1

For students wishing to proceed towards the legal profession in Scotland, these 40 credits may be taken in Law courses.

Please seek advice from your Personal Tutor before making your course choices.

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Students who opt to spend their third year abroad will be expected to do the equivalent of 120 credits. All students who spend their third year abroad must also take the compulsory course 'Advanced Legal Writing (Online) LAWS10214'.

Compulsory courses

Advanced Legal Writing

Course options

European Institutions

International Law A: The Individual and International Law

Criminology

Punishment and Society

Gender and Justice

Justice, Ethics and Law

Civil Law

Labour Law

Family Law

Contract

Company Law

Property Law

Commercial Law

Trusts and Succession Law

Criminal Law B: Doctrine and Theory

Criminal Law A: Harm, Offence and Criminalisation

Delictual Liability

International Law and Global Affairs

Freedom of Expression Law Clinic

AND

Law, Culture and Rights in a Transnational World

Contemporary issues in Competition Law and the Single Market

EU and UK Equality Law

Law, Information and Technology

Taxation of transactions

Fundamentals of Competition Law

Issues in Child Law

The Law of Fiduciary Duties

Principles of Taxation

Contemporary Issues in Medical Jurisprudence

Fundamental Issues in Medical Jurisprudence

WTO Law

Trade, Commerce and Society in the Roman Empire

Neuroscience and the Law

Commercial Leases

The Practice of Legal Argument

The Origins of Modern Commerce

Lords and Vassals in Medieval Scotland

Foundations of Modern Sovereignty

Current Issues in Administrative Justice

Advertising, Commercial Speech and the Law

Robotics and the Law

International Investment Law (Honours)

Governance of the European Union

Monetary Law

Crime and Punishment in Enlightenment Scotland

Mental Health Law

Intellectual Property: Copyright and Related Rights

Brexit: Legal Issues around an Exit from the EU

EU Law Honours (20 credit)

The Changing Constitution

Fundamental Issues in Comparative Constitutional Law

Human Rights Honours (20 credit)

Reasoning Using Civilian Authority

Islamic Law: From Prayer to Politics

AND

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

Renaissance Italians

The United States in the 1960s

The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990

Black Nationalism in America

The American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation

Atlantic Slavery

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World

A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Students who opt to spend their third year abroad will be expected to do the equivalent of 120 credits in year 3. In addition, they will be expected to take a 40 credit taught law course instead of the 'Dissertation in Law LAWS10097' and 80 History credits in year 4.