Semester 2 Credit Value: | 20 |
ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
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The module has four interrelated aims:
(i) To provide students with an understanding of the historical influences upon the development of the laws of England;
(ii) To study this relation with respect to various aspects of the legal system, and to challenge this distinction and division with particular reference to the historical role of law as an instrument of governance;
(iii) To develop in students an interdisciplinary understanding of the relation of law and history, and of legal and historical method;
(iv) To develop associated theoretical, critical, communicative and research-based skills appropriate to a Stage 3 study in law and similar disciplines.
The module is structured around five substantive topics, united by a focus upon the overarching theme of ‘Law and Governance’, which progress through the history of English law in a chronological and thematic order. They will be preceded an “Introduction to Law and History”, which introduces students to key concepts, institutions, sources and debates in relation to the past of the law.
The four substantive topics will each be centred around a particular year, in order to give a focus for the topics to be studied. The four central years will be 1613, 1765, 1887, and 1919.
Students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of historical and legal historical methodology and consonant critical intellectual skills
Students will acquire an appreciation of the historical development of the laws of England, and of juristic and popular thinking about the nature, role and significance of these laws
Students will acquire an advanced critical and inter-contextual understanding of the relation of law and governance in the closer context of English political and social history
Subject-specific skills:
(i) Ability to identify principal arguments in English legal history and historical methodology
(ii) Ability to engage in historical and inter-contextual legal study
(iii) Ability to pursue research in particular aspects of English legal, political and social history
Cognitive skills:
(i) Ability to enhance critical and communicative skills in advanced legal study
(ii) Ability to synthesize texts and materials from different sources and disciplines
(iii) Ability to discern relative critical merit in legal and historical argument
Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 60:00 | 60:00 | N/A |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 2 | 1:00 | 2:00 | Two one-hour long Q&A sessions |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 8 | 1:00 | 8:00 | Present-in-person Lectures |
Structured Guided Learning | Lecture materials | 15 | 1:00 | 15:00 | A combination of short recordings of lecture material and text published on Canvas each week. |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 4 | 1:00 | 4:00 | 4 x 1-hour face to face seminars. |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Workshops | 4 | 1:00 | 4:00 | 4 x 1-hour face to face whole cohort workshops. |
Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 107:00 | 107:00 | N/A |
Total | 200:00 |
The teaching methods have been adapted for delivery on the post-COVID environment are based on presumption that some face to face lectures, seminars and in-person drop-in sessions shall be possible but that this shall be augmented by on-line materials hosted on canvas (alternative arrangements under ‘FLEX’ are included in case of the possibility of more limited possibilities for on campus teaching). The delivery set out is multi-faceted and designed to engage and enthuse students and help them become active, independent and reflective learners. Particular focus is placed on giving students the guidance they need in order to develop the skills they need to do well on this module, which differs in important ways from the doctrinal and theoretical focus of much of the rest of their degree programme.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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Written exercise | 2 | M | 100 | 3,500 word essay |
Assessment for this kind of course is well-suited to research-based essay assignments. It will comprise of a set question on an issue or area covered by the module’s taught curriculum, to be answered by one 3,500-word essay.
It is the most appropriate means by which to assess the development of communication, written and research skills, whilst also permitting students to illustrate the development of necessary subject-specific knowledge bases.
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