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Undergraduate Course: Commercial Law (LAWS10086)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummarySelected topics in Commercial Law. Material will be chosen from such areas as insolvency rights in security, credit transfers, international trade, banking law, partnership. Company Law is excluded (except in so far as relevant to topics otherwise under consideration).
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Business Law (LAWS08058) OR ( Business Entities (LAWS08099) AND Commercial Law Ordinary (LAWS08095)) OR ( Business Entities (LAWS08134) AND Commercial Law (Ordinary) (LAWS08131))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Spaces on this course are allocated as part of the Law Honours Course Allocation process. Places are generally only available to students who must take Law courses. To request a space on this course, please email Law.UGO@ed.ac.uk
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesThis 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
Academic year 2023/24, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  0
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 38, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 351 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Essay 1 (40%), Problem Question (30%) and Essay 2 (30%)
Feedback Not entered
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
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsCommercial hons
Contacts
Course organiserDr Andrew Sweeney
Tel:
Email: Andrew.Sweeney@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Susie Morgan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2339
Email: susie.morgan@ed.ac.uk
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