Law with Foundation Year

You'll learn the main legal principles and issues of employment law.

We'll look at case law and changes in law and policy.

The content is tailored to topics of current interest so we can cover significant contemporary issues relating to employment law.

We'll explore contemporary issues relating to family law, including case law and changes in law and policy.

The content of the module, which is not specified by either the SRA or BSB, will therefore be tailored to topics of current interest.

You'll develop an awareness of the issues surrounding family law, you'll evaluate its operation within society, and appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation, and their impact.

You'll get an introduction to human rights law, including the Human Rights Act 1998 and anti-discrimination legislation.

You'll consider issues of social justice and discrimination in the light of comparative law and critical legal theory.

We'll explore human rights through key theories and texts, and encourage you to apply and test your findings on current debates about justice and equality.

You’ll acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of the main legal principles and issues of dispute resolution, capturing significant contemporary issues and procedures. 

Develop a critical understanding of the methods and processes to resolve civil disputes in England and Wales. 

You’ll study the contexts in which disputes may arise, the objectives of parties in disputes, and the ways in which the objectives can be met in a cost-effective and proportionate way. 

You’ll define a research project of your choice in consultation with an appointed member of staff, formulate a proposal then complete a dissertation. 

You’ll work independently where you’ll undertake research and draft the dissertation. 

Benefit from individual supervision with face-to-face meetings and participate in workshops to develop your skills and enhance your knowledge of the legal profession.  

You’ll cover the key principles of corporate law in England and Wales and be introduced to the concept of the company as a separate legal entity. 

Subjects you’ll consider include limited liability, the corporate veil, a company’s constitution, and the role of directors who manage a company on a day-to-day basis, as well as the shareholders who have invested in the business. 

You’ll be introduced to the internal processes and procedures that need to be followed within a company, together with associated reporting requirements and liaison with Companies House. 

You’ll be encouraged to think critically about issues such as minority protection, majority rule, and the separation of ownership and control in order to enable hem to apply these concepts to problem-based scenarios.  

The Level 6 Law Clinic project, part of the Professional Learning Through Work (PLTW) module, provides hands-on experience in a supervised university law clinic, where you'll support real clients while developing core professional skills such as legal research, communication, drafting, and problem-solving. You'll receive training on clinic practice, including ethical and regulatory responsibilities like confidentiality and conflicts of interest, and learn to deliver both oral and written legal advice.

The project also includes a smaller project focused on enhancing clinic activities, alongside reflective learning to track personal and professional development. Through case study work, you'll build competence in analysing, evaluating, and advising on legal issues before applying these skills in a live clinical environment, combining practical experience with career-focused development.

You’ll acquire an in depth understanding of key principles and issues in legal technology. 

You’ll capture significant contemporary issues in legal technology in law and practice drawing on case law, regulations, and changes in law and policy. 

Explore current issues to ensure both currency and interest, drawing on themes linked with law in the context of the digital revolution, the disruption of artificial intelligence and blockchain in law. 

Develop an awareness of the issues surrounding practical and ethical implications in connection with legal technology.

You’ll evaluate legal technology’s operation within society, appreciate the social, economic and political contexts and underlying policy issues relating to its operation and their impact. 

Get a critical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Genocide Studies.

You'll explore case studies relating to historical and contemporary instances of genocide, and interrogate the memorialisation of genocide.

You'll evaluate international legal mechanisms of genocide prevention.

We may address themes including the relationship of genocide to cognate categories in international legal discourse such as crimes against humanity and ‘ethnic cleansing’, sociological, criminological and social-psychological approaches to perpetration, the aftermath of genocide and the emerging concept of ecocide.

Critically explore concepts, debates, literature and research on justice, punishment and human rights.

You'll consider whether the criminal justice system balances these three elements.

You'll explore the history of punishment. You'll engage with criminological theories surrounding the development of penal systems and the rationales underpinning contemporary forms of punishment and look at the work of philosophers including John Rawls, Jeremy Bentham and Robert Nozick.

Develop an understanding of key human rights frameworks, as well as the use – and abuse – of human rights across a range of international cases

You’ll learn the importance of sustainability in contemporary business operations and acquire the specific skills, tools and techniques of sustainability assessment and understand the significance of sustainability practices.

You’ll be introduced to sustainability in general, and the various sustainability issues and practices relevant to business operations, including the benefits and challenges of adopting sustainability practices, the role of stakeholders, the supply chain and corporate social responsibility.

Explore how police, partner agencies and government bodies combat transnational and corporate crime that transcend regional, national and international boundaries.

You'll discover how law enforcement and government bodies have to work together to prevent and detect these often clandestine crimes.

We'll explore the exchange of weapons, drugs and stolen property, and the exploitation of people through human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Scrutinise the infiltration of governments and businesses through fraud, corruption and money laundering.

We'll also look at how technology and the internet facilitate transnational crimes.

Develop a critical understanding of the definitions, explanations and responses related to youth justice and crime.

Understand how to critically appreciate the impact of ethic, gendered, political and cultural inequality and difference in the experience of youth justice and crime control.

Explore issues pertinent to social justice and injustice with regards to children and young people’s lives, through a variety of contemporary theoretical and policy related lenses.