Undergraduate Course: Commercial Law (LAWS10086)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | Selected topics in Commercial Law. Material will be chosen from areas such as special relationships in commercial law, commercial law in digital markets, international trade, partnership, banking and finance. Company Law is excluded (except in so far as relevant to topics otherwise under consideration). |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to visiting students coming through a direct exchange with the School of Law (including Erasmus students on a Law-specific Exchange). Exchange students outside of Law and independent study abroad students are not eligible to enrol in this course, with no exceptions.
**Please note that 3rd year Law courses are high-demand, meaning that they have a very high number of students wishing to enrol in a very limited number of spaces.**
Priority will be given to students studying on exchange within the Law department, and it is highly unlikely that there will be additional spaces for general exchange students & independent study abroad students to enrol; we will look into this on a case-by-case basis in September/January. Visiting students are advised to bear in mind that enrolment in specific courses can never be guaranteed, and you may need to be flexible in finding alternatives in case your preferred courses have no available space.
These enrolments are managed strictly by the Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the department directly to request additional spaces.
Students must have passed Business Entities (LAWS08134) AND Commercial Law Ordinary (LAWS08131) or equivalent courses at their home institution. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 38,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
351 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Essay 1 (5000 words, 50%) and Essay 2 (5000 words, 50%) |
| Feedback |
Students will receive individual written feedback on formative and summative assessments via Learn |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will have:
¿ A detailed knowledge and understanding of important aspects of Scottish commercial law;
¿ Experience in critical analysis of issues and oral and written communication of the results of the analysis;
¿ Experience in working on your own, research and reading and understanding texts on the subject
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
1. Complex, evaluative and critical problem solving
2. Ability to think creatively by applying knowledge to multifaceted problems and provide accurate answers in written and oral form
3. Ability to present arguments for or against a proposition
4. Awareness of the relative weights that different arguments have in relation to one another and identifying matters of importance
5. Development of doctrinal and taxonomical reasoning skills
6. Use of properly updated electronic and other resources |
| Keywords | Commercial hons |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Szymon Osmola
Tel:
Email: sosmola@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Susie Morgan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2339
Email: susie.morgan@ed.ac.uk |
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