LLB (Hons) Law Bachelor's degree at De Montfort University

This module introduces students to the main features of the English and European legal systems and the procedures and processes that are followed. This module acts as an essential foundation for all further legal study.

This module will enable students to understand the general principles of the criminal law and the requirements of major criminal offences. It will develop your problem-solving skills in the field of criminal law and your ability to handle legal sources.

This module concentrates on the general legal principles relating to the formation, content and the regulation of contracts along with remedies or breach and vitiating factors. Many of these principles are directly applicable to everyday contracting, others provide the foundation on which specific (often legislative) rules build further.

This module is designed to help students understand how the UK's system of government including Parliament, and The Courts and international obligations and to examine how the exercise of government power can be controlled.

This module will introduce general principles of tortious liability, including trespass to the person and land, nuisance, negligence, occupiers' liability and remedies

This module will make you aware of the different legal rights to land which can exist, when these rights can be binding on others, and how they can be protected by registration. The module will focus on the wider context of land as a necessity for not only housing, but also the production of food, industry, commerce and recreation.

The module develops valuable generic skills, including those relating to employability and personal development. Students are encouraged to operate within the context of professional legal ethics. The module enables students to gain an appreciation of how lawyers use their skills in order to deal with a demanding case load. Timekeeping elements bring 'everyday reality' and an excellent opportunity to comprehend commercial awareness. An understanding of general procedural requirements and skills-

This module will equip you with an understanding of the legal rules, doctrines and principles which regulate and affect the modern family, especially the relationships of spouses, civil partners and parent/child.

This module will introduce students to the various ways in which it is possible to organise a business such as sole proprietorships, partnerships and companies and the law relating its regulation. This includes the law and policy governing the structure and the operation of companies.

This module considers the foundations of International Human Rights Law, and regional human rights protection frameworks. The module will also introduce the student to general issues concerning key qualified and unqualified rights and the international and regional enforcement mechanisms.

This module will focus on some of the more important powers which the police have for dealing with suspected crime, such as the powers of stop and search and arrest. The powers which the police have both under statute and at common law authorise what would otherwise be clear invasions of the right to liberty, and property and privacy rights and this module will examine their legitimacy.

This module will cover current issues in international law with a focus on the structural foundations, such as the sources of international law, subjects of international law and the way in which states interact with each other in the international sphere.

This module will concentrate upon the management of property (real and personal) and in particular, the management of personal property through the technical requirements of the trust relationship. It will consider the fiduciary nature of the relationship between trustees and beneficiaries and the consequences of any breach of a trustee's fiduciary duties.

This module critically evaluates the relationship between law and medicine by concentrating on a number of important medicolegal topics. It focuses on issues such as consent to treatment, medical negligence, infertility procedures, abortion, meaning of death, withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, assisted suicide, euthanasia and organ transplantation.

This module examines a range of areas which form the backbone of both domestic and international modern commercial law. It will help to facilitate an understanding of the relationships which exist between the parties to such modern commercial relationships.