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Semester 1

Global Legal Histories (LAWS10243)

Subject

Law

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed 3 Law courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. This course is only open to visiting students who are nominated to study with us on a Law exchange agreement. Exchange students outside of Law and study abroad students are not eligible to enrol on this course before teaching begins, with no exceptions, and spaces cannot be guaranteed to those students at any time. **Please see Additional Restrictions**

Course Summary

This course takes a 'global' approach to the concept of legal history. Rather than focusing on one legal family or one legal culture only, it examines - through comparison - different legal families and cultures across space and time. Issues such as legal history and legal culture across borders, constitutional experiences in global perspective, and the history of judicial experiences will form the substance of the course. Students will develop an understanding of the relationships between national legal-historical traditions and global legal history.

Course Description

The course will consist of 10 seminars. Seminar 1 will be devoted to an introduction and contextualisation of the course. The remaining 9 seminars will be divided (3 apiece) among the following 3 broader topics: *1* Legal history and legal culture across borders, *What is legal culture? *Legal culture(s) and legal families, *Comparing legal cultures across time and space. *2* Constitutional experiences in global perspective, *The enactment of the Turkish civil code; *Civil law and the Meiji restoration in Japan, *The codification of Thai civil law. *3* The history of judicial experiences, *Law-finding in common-law legal cultures, *Law-finding in civil-law legal cultures, *Finding and applying the law in a 'wicked legal system'.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

**All 3rd year Law courses are ONLY open to visiting students nominated on an exchange agreement within the School of Law (including Erasmus students on a Law-specific exchange). Exchange students outside of Law, and independent study abroad students, are not eligible to enrol in these courses, with no exceptions.** Please note that 3rd year Law courses are high-demand, meaning that they have a very high number of students wishing to enrol in a very limited number of spaces. These enrolments are managed strictly by the CAHSS Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the Law School directly to request additional spaces. If there is sufficient space for other visiting students to enrol at the start of the semester (which cannot be guaranteed at all), visiting students must meet the pre-requisites listed above.

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