Undergraduate Course: EU and UK Equality Law (LAWS10151)
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course provides a detailed introduction to Discrimination Law in the UK and EU. |
| Course description |
This course aims to provide an in-depth study of selected aspects of Discrimination Law in the UK and EU (consistent with the aims of the LL.B degree) and to promote advanced knowledge and understanding of the theory, concepts and rules of Discrimination Law in their socio-economic, institutional and historical frameworks.
On completion of this course, the student will have:
A detailed knowledge and understanding of important aspects of UK & EU Discrimination Law (consistent with the objectives of the LL.B degree);
Experience in critical analysis of issues and oral and written communication of the results of the analysis (consistent with the objectives of the LL.B degree);
Experience in working on their own, research and reading and understanding texts on the subject (consistent with the objectives of the LL.B degree);
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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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-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
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The course will be assessed through an unseen three-hour in-person summative written examination in late April or May, which counts for 100% of the final mark. In this three-hour examination three questions must be answered from a choice of eight questions. |
| Feedback |
The course includes the opportunity for students to participate in a formative feedback exercise or event. The formative feedback events for this course will be one piece of written work. The Course Organiser will mark and return the exercises with feedback, but no model answer will be issued.
Feedback for coursework will be released via LEARN once all work has been marked.
We recommend that you consult the general feedback provided on assessed work initially, as this will provide useful information about performance in assessment overall. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Knowledge and Sources of Law: - A general understanding of the areas of EU & UK Equality law and EU social policy discussed in the course; - A detailed and specific knowledge of particular areas of EU & UK Equality law within a broader framework; - An understanding of major Equality law issues and debates in the EU and UK; and - An understanding of how external norms, such as EU law, are incorporated, resisted or accommodated at the local level within populations among states.
- Subject-specific Skills: - developed skills of reading and critical analysis enabling them to evaluate the work of EU & UK Equality law scholars; - an ability to analyse, evaluate and interpret relevant source material; - identifying the material legal issue under discussion; - developing an advanced approach to critically addressing complex legal questions; - apply knowledge of legal rules/concepts/principles to solve legal problems; - critique conventional legal rules and doctrines; and - further develop an awareness of the need to provide evidence for assertions and in argument, in particular appropriate legal authority.
- General Transferable Intellectual Skills: - developed written and oral skills, including the clear and succinct expression of ideas; - a basic grounding in research skills and techniques in EU & UK Equality law and social policy; - developing complex evaluative and critical reasoning; - developing creative thinking; - develop an ability to apply knowledge outcomes to complex questions in written and oral form; - develop an advanced ability to present arguments for and against a proposition in a dispassionate manner; - develop the faculty of assessing and presenting the relative weight to be accorded to arguments; - develop doctrinal and taxonomical skills in a logical manner; and - using electronic legal resources at an advanced level.
- Key Personal Skills: - develop advanced written communication skills by way of examination, including the ability to compose written work in conformity with a prescribed format; - formatting and presentation skills by virtue of word processing; - oral communication skills developed in seminar discussions; and - group work and the importance of appreciating different dynamics within a group, and learning to respect the opinions of other people even if there is disagreement.
- Subject-specific Legal and Ethical Values: - explaining the broad economic context of UK and EU Equality law; - fostering an awareness of the moral and philosophical questions posed by the principle of equality; and - provide students with a space to reflect on their view of equality law against a backdrop of their practical application.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- recognise, analyse and rank arguments and evidence in terms of relevance and importance by:
- managing volume of legal sources and select key material to construct written or oral answers to a problem.
- identifying the legal problem from information provided.
- addressing problems by reference to relevant material.
- bringing together and integrating information and materials from a variety of different sources.
- acknowledging ranking of sources and relative impact in context.
- application of the law and problem-solving in a legal context.
- presenting arguments for and against propositions.
- be aware that arguments require to be supported by evidence, in order to meet legal requirements of proof by showing awareness of the need for evidence to support arguments
Apply knowledge and analysis
- in a legal context
- creatively to complex situations in order to provide arguable solutions to concrete problems by presenting a range of viable options from a set of facts and law.
Think critically and make critical judgments on the relative and absolute merits of particular arguments and solutions.
Act independently in planning and undertaking tasks in areas of law which he or she has already studied.
Reflect on his or her own learning, and to seek and make use of feedback. |
| Keywords | EU and UK Equality |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr David Cabrelli
Tel: (0131 6)50 2068
Email: david.cabrelli@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Emma Hughes
Tel: (0131 6)50 2008
Email: Emma.Hughes@ed.ac.uk |
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