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LAW1081: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE

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Type Tied
Level 1
Credits 20
Availability Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Law

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None

Aims

  • To provide a general understanding of the basic institutions, concepts and principles relating to the relationship between the individual and the State.

Content

  • The European Convention on Human Rights; Human Rights Act 1998; and judicial review of administrative action.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • Students should be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the law relating to the relationship between the individual and the state.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • Students should be able to ability to apply the law of the United Kingdom relating to the relationship between the individual and the state and analyse and understand its development.

Key Skills:

  • Students should be able to demonstrate basic analytical and writing skills, including the ability to work independently and for the student to take responsibility for his/her own learning

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Lectures are used primarily to impart knowledge - and also to suggest approaches to evaluation and critical analysis;
  • Tutorials will be used to develop and enhance students capacity for legal-problem solving in a particular factual situation, evaluative critical analysis and their appreciation of laws' linkage with broader fields of enquiry;
  • Formative work will be used to develop various skills, such as the ability to engage in sustained evaluation of proposed schemes of reforms, and the ability to evaluate the law in a critical and contextual way;
  • The summative assessments will test students' ability to focus on relevant legal issues and organise knowledge and argument appropriate to questions raised and will provide the means for students to demonstrate the acquisition of subject knowledge and the development of their problem-solving skills.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures20Weekly1 hour20 
Tutorials5Normally: two in Michaelmas; three in Epiphany1 hour5Yes
Preparation and Reading175 
Total200 

Summative Assessment

Component: ExaminationComponent Weighting: 70%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
written examination2 hours100yes
Component: Summative EssayComponent Weighting: 30%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
summative essay1500 words100yes

Formative Assessment

One essay of about 1500 words.

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