Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

LAW2100 is the module that Year Abroad students are enrolled in following a successful application to participate in either the LLB (European Legal Studies) or the LLB (International Legal Studies). To be eligible to apply for either programme, M101 LLB students must satisfactorily pass all CORE LLB Stage 1 modules (LAW1110, LAW1120, LAW1121, and LAW1122). Selected ELS and ILS students are made conditional offers, subject to, inter alia, satisfactorily passing all CORE LLB Stage 2 modules (LAW2160, LAW2161, LAW2162, and LAW2163).

Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

LAW2100 facilitates Law students undertaking the Year Abroad within either the LLB (European Legal Studies) or LLB (International Legal Studies) programmes, which are streams developing out of the M101 Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree programme. By studying abroad at one of the prestigious Law School exchange partners students can improve their communication, language and inter-cultural skills, and gain soft skills highly valued by future employers. In addition Year Abroad students will gain disciplinary insights into different legal systems and legal cultures, which enhance overall levels of knowledge, understanding, and overall employability skills.

Outline Of Syllabus

The content of the Syllabus is determined by Newcastle Law School's institutional partners on both the LLB (European Legal Studies) and LLB (International Legal Studies) degree programmes. Students select from a range of modules taught in English that are offered by their host University, and their module selection must be approved by the ELS/ILS Director (who would also ordinarily be the module leader for LAW2100).

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

• Knowledge of foreign legal jurisdictions and greater understanding of diversity of legal systems.

• Knowledge of a wider range of law and legal discourse than would be possible by studying a standard 3 year degree at Newcastle Law School.

Intended Skill Outcomes

Subject Specific Skills

• Ability to adapt to different learning and legal environment.

• Ability to write and speak with care and precision in the analysis and synthesis of the law of a different legal system.

• Ability to structure legal argument and analysis.

Cognitive Skills

• Analysis. Identifying and ordering issues by relevance and importance

• Synthesis of materials from diverse sources

• Critical judgement. Discernment between the merits or otherwise of particular arguments

• Evaluation. Making a reasoned choice between competing solutions or arguments

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Delivery of teaching will be undertaken entirely by our partner Universities, and the format will vary between partners, and between modules within partners. Students will register on modules with a credit value approximated to 120 Newcastle University credits, and their module selection must be approved in a Learning Agreement by the ELS/ILS Director (ordinarily the LAW2100 module leader).

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The Board of Examiners (BoE) will certify that candidates have completed the Exchange Year Abroad upon receipt of academic transcripts from Partner Universities where the transcripts demonstrate that the candidate has produced a passing performance of the overall year. In this instance candidates will be deemed to have passed LAW2100. For the avoidance of doubt, a passing performance is the successful attainment of an average mark of at least 40 (on the Newcastle scale) across modules undertaken during the exchange year. A failing performance in particular modules can therefore be outweighed by a strong performance in other modules. The BoE might be willing to exercise its discretion and certify completion of the exchange year abroad, notwithstanding academic failure to attain an average of 40 across the exchange year abroad, where there are relevant and significant personal extenuating circumstances brought to the attention of the Board. Marks and credits attained during the Exchange Year Abroad will not directly input into aggregate or average marks of a student’s degree performance for the purposes of determining overall degree classification. Nonetheless, account may, at the discretion of the Board of Examiners, be taken of relevant assessments in the Exchange Year Abroad in awarding the degree class at the end of Stage 3.

Failure to complete the Exchange Year Abroad, and thus resulting in a Fail in LAW2100, will result in candidates being transferred from either the 1125U ILS programme, or the 1506U ELS programme, back to the M101 LLB programme for the remainder of their degree studies.

General Notes

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