Director Language Programme
Course description, learning objectives and assessment requirements
Information about attendance and participation, essay, and mini-moot.
Exercises to be completed in class
The common law and civil law; international and national law; public and private law; civil and crim…Show more
History and sources of common law; common law and equity; adversarial and inquisitorial court system…Show more
Branches of the US government; federal & state courts
The courts in the UK and the US; case law and judicial precedent; the law reports; reading a case
Introduction; types of statutes; statutory interpretation; canons of construction; rules of language
Understanding the structure of a case, Bethel v Fraser case reading, Hypothetical scenarios
Legal education & admission to the legal profession
Answering a problem question; citation guide; plagiarism in academic legal writing
