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Semester 2

Law, Legitimacy and Globalisation (LAWS10197)

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, including courses equivalent to Public Law of the UK & Scotland (LAWS08123), Critical Legal Thinking (LAWS08139) and Jurisprudence (LAWS08129). 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

The core components of the course involve analysing changes in law and politics at national, transnational and international levels. In particular it looks at whether the current conceptual tools and models for law and legitimacy based on state sovereignty are adequate in understanding legal practice and legitimacy in globalised world. It will also analyse new models and proposals for reconceptualising law and mechanisms of legitimacy in a globalised world. Subject matter-wise, the course involves a blend of constitutional law, legal theory, international law with some elements of private law, private international law, human rights law and EU law.

Course Description

The proposed teaching outline is as follows: 1) Contemporary challenges to law and legitimacy; 2) Case studies of the globalisation of law and legitimacy; 3) Old Approaches to law in the international context; 4) New Approaches to legal theory 1: transnational legal theory; 5) New Approaches to legal theory 2: Legal Pluralism; 6) New Approaches to legal theory 3: Constitutional Pluralism; 7) Old Approaches to legitimacy: human rights, democracy and the rule of law; 8) New Approaches to to legitimacy 1: Global Constitutionalism; 9) New Approaches to to Legitimacy 2: Global Administrative law; 10) New Approaches to Legitimacy 3: Global Democracy

Assessment Information

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

Additional Restrictions

This course cannot be taken alongside Public Law of the UK & Scotland (LAWS08123), Critical Legal Thinking (LAWS08139) or Jurisprudence (LAWS08129). **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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