78103 Common Law Legal Traditions

8cp
Requisite(s): 78100c Postgraduate Legal Research
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Postgraduate

This intensive subject provides the bridge between the civil law and the common law. It is a comprehensive subject aimed at lawyers from countries with civil or dual civil and common law legal systems. It opens with expert tuition and practical exercises in the research skills and methodology of the common law. The topics covered include primary and secondary sources of the common law; the development of the common law; courts and lawyers; the spread and reception of the common law; law finding in the common law; contract law in the common law; public law and the common law; and business transactions in the common law.

Typical availability

Autumn semester, City campus
Spring semester, City campus

Access conditions

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