Teaching and learning methods
Teaching for the module is delivered via weekly lectures and tutorials.
The tutorial works alongside the lectures, offering an opportunity for detailed discussion of specific questions relating to the broader issues covered throughout the course. In tutorials you will be introduced gradually to skills that you will be expected to practice and develop throughout the module and which also provide an essential common foundation for your work in all other modules. They also provide an opportunity for you to ask questions about, and obtain feedback on, your progress. Details of individual tutorial assignments, together with readings and questions for guidance, will be placed on Blackboard in advance.
Learning activities include
Lectures will develop:
- the structure of the subject and the key doctrines and principles, institutions, practices and procedure of the English legal system
- major issues and areas of controversy in relation to law and legal reasoning
- complexity and contestability of legal argument, bringing together writings from a variety of different perspectives
Preparation for, and participation in, tutorials will develop:
- your ability to engage effectively with key legal research skills such as reading, summarising and interpreting sources of law
- your ability to challenge widely held assumptions about the decision-making process and how these impact on the practice of judicial decision making
- your ability to assess and comment critically on the effectiveness of others’ legal argument
- your ability to discuss and defend your own argument among your peers
- your time management and individual research skills