LLB (Hons) Law 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 offers you an introduction to some of the major classic and modern legal theories, including critical legal studies, socio-legal approaches, feminist legal studies, and critical race theory. Through engaging critically with a range of different approaches to legal study, you will build on and further develop your academic legal skills, including group work and debating. You will gain a strong theoretical grounding in the major academic legal traditions, providing an essential foundat

This module will introduce you to the different roles that lawyers play in society and reflect on the contemporary challenges facing the profession, from increasing diversity and globalisation to the growing influence of AI and legal technology. You will also meet guest speakers from the profession and ask them questions. This module will give you the opportunity to reflect on your own legal identity, career aspirations and skills development, and be able to critically analyse specific case stud

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

Litigation is an adversarial type of law. If parties to a dispute cannot agree, the matter will ultimately be decided by the courts. In this module we explore the procedures in place to protect parties and ensure justice is not only done, but also seen to be done. We do so through workshops, where we consider case studies to develop skills in interviewing, drafting, negotiations and advocacy. Authentic assessment and experiential learning mean this is an interesting and exciting module.

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

This module explores the challenges that the 21st century (eg driverless cars, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate change) poses to law, particularly to fundamental rights. You will analyse the key legal frameworks and jurisprudential responses to these issues and will critically evaluate their successes. You will thereby be better equipped to engage with the emerging legal issues of the future and will be invaluable to employers in the legal field, as well as other social and commerc

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

International law structures the relationships between states and the wider community of global actors, from international organisations to individuals. In this module, you will build a strong foundation in its core principles by studying the institutions, sources and doctrines that underpin the international legal system. You will also engage with specialist areas such as human rights, humanitarian law, environmental law and economic law, using them to think critically about the major challenge

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.

Based on Keele's nationally recognised CLOCK programme, you will train as a Community Legal Companion and support litigants in person in local courts. Through a combination of practical experience and critical reflection, this module helps you develop the skills needed to engage contextually with law in its social context.

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 explores the interrelationship of law, ethics, and policy in a contested and rapidly expanding area of law: healthcare practice, including mental health. The module builds on your knowledge from previous modules and develops it by introducing you to the major ethico-legal frameworks, including important questions of autonomy and capacity. You will critically analyse how the law seeks to govern doctor/patient relationships and debate the need for a balance between the demands of the i

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 offers you an exciting opportunity to explore and understand commercial law issues. It is an ideal choice for anyone aiming for a career in the English legal profession or a field of commerce. We look at both practical legal doctrines and theoretical questions of English commercial law in the context of economic activity. This module will equip you to appreciate, evaluate and apply complex statutory and judicial rules governing commercial activity.