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HRL310 Equality and Diversity in the Workplace
The module provides a broad understanding of equality and diversity in the workplace. The module considers the paradigms underpinning regulation and voluntarism, organisational equality and diversity at the levels of strategy and operational practice, and how group and individual identities are constructed in the workplace.
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LAW3222 Dissertation
The production of a substantial dissertation (12,000-15,000 words) on a legal or legally related area with content and form determined by the student. For the LLB with CCJS or Business the dissertation will be set in context.
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LAW3223 Work-based Action Research
A module in which BSc Law with Business or CCJS students apply legal skills (including research) and knowledge by undertaking practical legal research as part of their work-based learning.
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LAW3226 Company Law
The module considers the key legal concepts, principles and policies relating to business organisation and corporate governance.
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LAW3228 Employment Law
This final year elective module provides students with knowledge of a specialist area of law, namely Employment Law, whilst also continuing to offer development of general legal skills.
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LAW3229 Environmental Law
The module provides an examination of key themes in environmental law, with a focus on the generation, application and enforcement of this law within a critical and applied context.
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LAW3230 Family Law
This module will examine the principles of family law from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
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LAW3233 Commercial Law
In outline this module covers elements of commercial law, trading, commercial relations and practice. It includes aspects of commercial transactions, agency, regulation enforcement and remedies.
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LAW3236 Law, Literature and Film
To introduce students to fictional representations of the legal order in prose and film, and to examine the inter-connections between law, literature and film.
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LAW3237 Intellectual Property and Information Law
This module focuses on the law and concepts of intellectual property, examining in addition related legal themes of information access, dissemination and control.
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LAW3238 Sex, Power and Legal Control
This module examines how law and society controls and regulates sexual behaviour and conduct and why and how it criminalises and punishes certain activities and sexual expression. In particular it will focus on the enactment and implementation of laws relating to sexual autonomy and sex crime and examine how these are practically operationalized within the criminal justice process. Within this context the impact upon those affected by such legal regulation is also examined.
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LAW3239 Cybercrime: Issues and Regulation
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LAW3240 Consumer Law
An overview of consumer law with a practical approach to the resolution of the more common examples of consumer grievances. Autonomously developing and deepening an understanding of a chosen topic.
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LAW3241 Marine Law, Regulation and Development
This module will consider the regulatory and policy framework which applies to activities and development, including the exploitation of energy resources, in the marine environment. Set in the context of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and national implementing measures, the module will consider a variety of contemporary issues relating to the sustainable use of the marine environment. It provides a theoretical and practical analysis of the relevant law, as well as providing insight into a rapidly evolving and contemporary area of law.
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LAW3242 Criminal law
"This module provides in depth examination of basic principles and concepts of criminal law, an introduction to modes of participation, and detailed analysis of selected offences and defences. The module fulfils the professional requirements of the Law Society and Bar Council.
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LAW3244 Jurisprudence: law, society and justice
This module follows jurisprudential inquiries into themes and topics relating to the concept of law and the intersection between law and society. It analyses key ideas and theories on the development of legal concepts and regulatory frameworks. It adopts a broad range of theoretical perspectives from sociology, cultural studies and economics to examine the phenomenon of law, providing a platform for developing rich interdisciplinary discussion and reflection.
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MAR321 Carriage of Goods by Sea
The study of the law relating to charterparties and bill of lading contracts, and liability for pollution.
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MAR329 Marine Insurance and Admiralty Law
The study of the law relating to Marine Insurance, including General Average and Admiralty Law.
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STO301 Operations Management for Competitive Advantage
This module brings a strategic and problem-focused view to operations management, concentrating on spheres key to operations based competitive advantage, both in goods and service based industries. Particular consideration is given to operations strategy, supply chain management, lean thinking, performance measurement, quality management, project management and topical developments.
