LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology with Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at Keele University

This module introduces you to the English legal system and to the legal, academic, and personal skills needed to participate effectively as a Law student, through delivery of four streams of learning and teaching: Thinking Law; Making Law; Doing Law; and Being Law. It develops your skills in finding and working with legal materials and making legal arguments, through individual and group work. You will also reflect on your skills development journey, identifying future development needs and sour

The Law of Obligations examines liability in both contract and tort law. You will have the opportunity to learn how contracts are formed and when contracts do not go to plan! You will also learn about the tort of negligence and available tortious remedies. This module is the foundation for numerous legal specialities, including medical law, employment law and family law. You will develop the skills to effectively analyse cases and statutes and apply your knowledge to real world scenarios.

This module critically introduces key principles of UK public law. It explores foundational concepts of the UK's constitution such as parliamentary sovereignty, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. It analyses the relationship between the state and the individual, human rights, and the role of administrative law in controlling governmental power. This module enables you to critically analyse the UK's constitution and to use legal research and reasoning to solve constitutional and admin

This module aims to lay the foundations for your criminological studies and to ignite your 'criminological imagination'. The module introduces you to criminology as a subject, to where our understanding of 'crime' comes from, and to the ways in which criminological theories and ideas can help us to understand contemporary crime problems. You will also be introduced to theories of criminal justice and the work of, and relationships between, the main institutions of the criminal justice system.

This module introduces you to the role of criminal law in modern society and encourages you to appreciate criminal law within its theoretical, social, and political contexts. You will learn to access, review and critically evaluate criminal law concepts through engaging with legal and academic materials. You will build on and further develop your skills in analysing problems and in critically evaluating the law, including theoretical issues and current controversies.

The module starts by considering the meaning of 'property' and the consequences of using property-based rules to regulate the use of land. It then critically considers the legal and equitable rules relating to the creation, protection, transfer, and shared enjoyment of rights in land. You explore the relationship between law and equity and between case law and statute. Particular attention is given to developing practical skills, including reading and interpreting statute law and problem solving

This module introduces key institutions, methods, and principles of EU law, and looks at how power is defined, exercised, and distributed among EU institutions and Member States. It explores different forms of regional integration and considers the EU's evolution. The significance of EU citizenship and the Internal Market are also introduced. The module will enable you to acquire detailed knowledge of substantive legal principles underpinning EU law and to undertake independent legal research to

This module invites you to engage critically with the hidden barriers we may encounter when dealing with legal and social systems, and how the law can either cause or remedy them. The module will introduce you to the relationship between law, society and policy; contextualise these issues through various theoretical approaches; link policy issues to academic research; identify policy concerns and consider possible solutions; and provide you with a sound theoretical footing on which to explore yo

In a competitive job market, practical skills and understanding workplace dynamics are crucial. This module allows you to gain hands-on experience, enhancing your employability, and the opportunity to gain valuable professional insights via a 75-hour placement. You will be supported by various activities to secure a role and can source your own placement or apply to university-sourced roles. This module offers flexibility on when and how you complete your placement, enabling you to balance your

This module introduces cross-border crime and the impacts of globalisation and technological innovation on crime and criminal justice. You will learn how cross-border flows impact upon transnational crimes such as: drug use and distribution; human trafficking; immigration crimes; terrorism; cybercrime; hate crime; state crime; organised crime; and environmental crime. You will explore theories of globalisation, risk and network societies, and delve deeper into perspectives that decentre the nati

This module examines current and emerging challenges and issues in criminal justice policy, process and practice. We will examine contemporary case studies of issues requiring a criminal justice response to prevent, deter or reduce problematic impacts and explore the ways in which we can contextualise, measure and respond to these challenges and issues. The module will include visits from practitioners working in criminal justice to provide the opportunity to network and gain insights into poten

What is it like to live in or work in prison? Why do many people return to prison repeatedly? Are prisons doing more harm than good? This module explores the continuum of custodial sentences, from the time a person may spend in prison, to their release into supervision in the community and transition to life 'on the outside'. The module is underpinned by theories of punishment, rehabilitation and integration; in/equality and intersectionality; penal reformist perspectives, abolition and alternat

As one of the key foundations of legal knowledge, Equity & Trusts will ensure that you have the skills and confidence to engage in critical analysis, working with case law and problem-solving in this important area of law. Dealing with testamentary and life-time trusts, private and charitable trusts, breach of trust and associated remedies, its scope is broad and its utility clear. This module is essential should you wish to pursue a career in legal practice.

This module enables you to design and complete an extended independent research project on a legal topic of your choice. Working with a supervisor, you will produce substantial legal writing demonstrating advanced research and analytical skills, as well as effective time management.

This module involves independent research into the need for reform in a chosen area of law. You will critically analyse existing law, engage with scholarship, and develop evidence‑based reform proposals, developing your advanced research, analytical and communication skills.

This module provides practical experience with real clients in Keele's Legal Advice Clinics, supervised by solicitors. You will develop skills in client interviewing, legal research and drafting, and enhance your employability by reflecting on your development.

This module allows you to further develop your knowledge of legal rules as they are applied in the context of criminal trials in England and Wales. It offers the opportunity to explore how trial courts manage statutory legal rules and exceptions, codes of practice, and case law. You will gain a fuller appreciation of the appropriate exercise of judicial case management skills, and judicial discretion, in the efficient management of trials within the context of human rights, particularly the ECHR

This module examines contemporary families in all their diversity, including the welfare and care of children. You will critically examine the law relating to families and family disputes in their social and political contexts. You will analyse the concept of the 'legal child' and the construction of childhood by examining a range of changing social circumstances. You will further develop your evaluative and written advocacy skills through assessing the existing law in these areas and making sug

This module explores the central features of company law with focus on the doctrine of separate corporate personality, the changing nature of shares, the company constitution, the statutory duties of directors and shareholder protection. Furthermore, the module addresses the company as a socio-economic actor through the study of corporate theory, and, finally, the module explores corporate law practice. This module will enable you to appreciate, evaluate and apply the law, theory and practice of

This module reflects the significant and increasing importance of the Equality Act 2010 and the societal changes throughout the 20th and 21st centuries which require new ways of thinking about and applying the law. It will approach this analysis through a blend of theoretical and practical enquiry and will consider the relationship between the law, Human Rights and a whole range of legally protected characteristics including, for example, Disability, Gender, Health and Immigration status.

What, and who, is criminology for? Criminology has long debated whether it should support governments, or whether it should seek to challenge unequal power relations and systemic injustices within contemporary societies. A variety of perspectives on justice and power have emerged, including the idea that criminology's focus should not simply be on crime but on social harm. This module explores examples such as 'crimes of the powerful', state crime, corporate crimes, environmental harms; harms as

This module explores how the extreme and the everyday intermingle. It looks on the one hand, at extreme perspectives, groups, and actions, and on the other hand, discusses a range of everyday experiences of citizen involvement in processes of legal and extra-legal crime control and punishment. It explores how extremism connects to everyday experiences of crime and policing.