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GO UNIVERSITY  Ghana/Global 2016/17/18/19

LLB LAW degree - 3 Years

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Course Description-

 

This Qualifying Law Degree allows you to learn about the law, both in the sense of ‘thinking like a lawyer’ and seeing law as a social institution.

You’ll gain expertise in analysis, research, logical argument and more as you gain an understanding of key topics within law and the legal sector. In addition to areas like contract law and criminal law, you’ll examine the broader context of the law and its relationship with society.

We offer a wide range of optional modules, enabling you to develop your interests in specialist legal areas such as company or employment law, human rights law, environmental law and family law. You could also explore topics in criminal justice and criminology, such as policing or youth crime.

Throughout the course, you’ll gain diverse skills that will be valuable to you as a citizen, as well as in your professional career – whether you choose to enter the legal profession or not.

 

Course Contents

Year 1 provides you with a firm foundation in key aspects of law such as contract, criminal and constitutional law. You’ll also complete our Foundations of Law module, which equips you with the skills to study law at undergraduate level and gives you the chance to practice mooting.

In the following year you’ll build on your knowledge and skills with an in-depth understanding of European law as well as key facets of English law such as land law and torts. Additional core modules will help you to develop your research skills and understand how new insights into the law are developed, as well as examining the broader relationship between law, the legal system and wider society. Optional modules will allow you to focus on topics that suit your interests and career plans, such as financial services law, employment law and issues related to the victims of crime.

Your final year will give you the chance to apply the research skills you’ve gained in previous years to an independent dissertation on a topic of your choice, which you’ll work on with your supervisor. At the same time you’ll study equity and trusts. A final choice of optional modules will allow you to gain specialist knowledge in areas like war crimes, discrimination law or penology.

 

Year 1

 

Compulsory modules

• Contract Law 30 credits

• Foundations of Law 30 credits

• Constitutional and Administrative Law 30 credits

• Criminal Law

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Year 2

Compulsory modules

• European Union Law 20 credits

• Land Law 20 credits

• Torts 20 credits

• Law and Society 10 credits

• Researching Law

• Optional modules

• Banking and Financial Services Law 20 credits

• Company Law 20 credits

• Criminology: Theories and Concepts 20 credits

• Transnational and Comparative Criminology 20 credits

• French Law 20 credits

• International Human Rights Law 20 credits

• International Law 20 credits

• Employment Law 20 credits

• Lawyers, Ethics and Society 20 credits

• Family Law

• Victims, Crime and Justice 20 credits

• Youth Crime and Justice 20 credits

• Competition Law 20 credits

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• Year 3

• Compulsory modules

• Equity and Trusts 20 credits

• Long Dissertation 40 credits

• Optional modules

• Child Law 20 credits

• Cyberlaw: Regulation of Information Society 10 credits

• Cyberlaw: Law and the Regulation of the Information Society 20 credits

• Discrimination Law 20 credits

• Disability Law 20 credits

• Evidence 20 credits

• Gender and the Law 10 credits

• Concepts of Law 20 credits

• Health Care Law 20 credits

• Law and the Environment I: Pollution Control 10 credits

• Law and the Environment II: Development and Nature Conservation 10 credits

• Penology 20 credits

• Policing 20 credits

• Crime, Law and Social Change: Crime and Criminal Justice in Historical Perspective 20 credits

• Media Freedom 20 credits

• Insolvency Law 20 credits

• Intellectual Property Law 20 credits

• Commercial Law: Commercial and Consumer Sales 20 credits

• Private International Law 20 credits

• Mass Atrocities and Criminal Justice 20 credits

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