School of Law

Year 2

Compulsory modules

• Languages in contexts
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• French Law

You also choose an optional module from the list below.

Optional modules

• Aspects of French History 1789-1914
• Laughter, Love and Chivalry: Society and Culture in the French Middle Ages
• Politics and Society in France since 1945
• The Foundations of Modern French Thought
• Francophone Africa
• Roman Noir and Film Noir
• The Age of Extremes: Culture, Crisis and Commitment between the Wars
• The Seventh Art - Cinema in France
• The Twentieth-Century French Novel
• The Short Form in French and Francophone Literature
• Linguists into Schools

Year Three

Year Three is your placement year where you study law at one of our partner universities in France.

Year Four

Compulsory modules

• Advanced Language Skills

Optional modules

You also choose between four to six optional modules to complete your programme, though one of these options will concern the dissertation option you wish to take.

• Dissertation.
• Long dissertation.

French modules

• Antiracism in France since 1945
• Bilingual Liaison Interpreting
• Social and Ideological Change in France since May 1968
• Variation in Spoken French
• Twentieth Century French Literature and the Visual Arts
• Post-Holocaust Culture in France
• Camera Lucida: Theory, Practice and Writing of Photography
• Obscenity, Jokes and Disguise in Sixteenth Century France
• Francophone Cinema - Postcolonial Images
• French Culture and the First World War
• The Algerian War of Independence: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial
• Contemporary Political Issues in France
• Representations of the City
• Francophone Voices - Textual and Cultural Analysis
• Colonial Legacy - Postcolonial Conflict
• French as a Professional Language
• Ecrire et s'écrire. Womens' Writing in France, 20th/21st Centuries
• Gender, Sex and Cinema in France
• Theory and Practice in French-English Translation
• Symbolism and Decadence: French Literature in the Fin de Siècle
• Dissertation module in French

Law modules

• Company Law
• Criminology
• International Human Rights Law
• International Law
• Employment Law
• Family Law
• Victims, Crime and Victimology
• Victims, Crime and Restorative Justice
• Cybercrime: Computers and Crime in the Information Age
• Youth Crime and Justice
• War Crimes and Genocide
• Banking and Financial Services Law
• Cyberlaw: Law and the Regulation of the Information Society
• Discrimination Law
• Evidence
• Gender and the Law
• Medical Malpractice
• Moral Dilemmas in Medical Law
• Medical Law
• Law and the Environment I: Pollution Control
• Law and the Environment II: Development and Nature Conservation
• European Union Law
• Policing
• Terrorism and the Law
• Privacy, Free Speech and the Media
• Equity and Trusts
• Land Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Commercial Law
• Understanding Law Firms

If you wish to fulfil your 'qualifying law degree' status, you must study European Union Law, Equity and Trusts, and Land Law in Year Four.