LLB (Hons) Law with Politics with a Year in Industry Bachelor's degree at Royal Holloway, University of London

Examines the UK's uncodified constitution, the main characteristics of the British system of government including division of powers between legislature, executive and judiciary, constitutional concepts including Parliamentary sovereignty, conventions, the rule of law and human rights protection, and how administrative law controls government and public authority actions.

Examines the legalities regarding formation of contracts, capacity to contract and performance of legal obligations as well as remedies for breach, covering invitation to treat, offer and acceptance, consideration, promissory estoppel, intentions to create legal relations, implied and express terms, exemption clauses, unfair contract terms, mistakes, misrepresentation, duress, undue influence, frustration and force majeure, and breach of contract and remedies.

Intensive introduction to the fundamentals of the legal system and legal study, exploring historical, philosophical and social context of the English Legal Systems including issues of law, morality and justice, and various sources of law at national and international level through treaties, statute and case law.

Focuses on employability by involving students in practical skills sessions such as mooting, client interviewing and negotiation, designed to develop core professional competencies required by legal and non-legal professions.

Introduces academic study of politics and contemporary politics, providing essential tools to understand the nature of politics and analyse different political systems, covering key concepts such as politics, power, rights, ideologies, democracy and representation, and different actors, institutions and processes that make up politics.

Examines various types of interests which can exist in land including rights and duties under these interests, how they can be protected against third parties and how they can be transferred, covering fundamental concepts, contracts relating to land, adverse possession, leases and licences, mortgages, co-ownership and the family home, freehold covenants, easements, and protection of interests in land both registered and unregistered.

Provides introduction to the law of tort focusing on general principles of tort liability in law governing reputation and misuse of private information, negligence, intentional interference with the person and law of nuisance, covering function and purpose of tort law, duty of care and its breach, causation and remoteness, general defences, defamation, trespass to the person, and interference with property rights.

Develops understanding of the general nature of criminal law and application of general principles of criminal liability including liability of accomplices, covering elements of an offence, actus reus and mens rea, principal offences against the person including fatal and non-fatal offences involving physical violence and sexual violence, principal property offences including theft, burglary, robbery and deception, and inchoate offences and liability of accomplices.

Analyses contemporary politics of the European Union and its institutions amid challenges of economics, migration and Brexit, covering political history of European integration after 1949 and contemporary theory of European integration, including EU as political system, historical development, Euroscepticism, party politics, public opinion, Brexit and EU-UK relations, and European Parliament elections, with theory sessions on federalism, neo-functionalism, liberal intergovernmentalism and new in

Explores theory and practice of modern British politics, designed to familiarise students with ways British democracy has evolved and operates, covering nuts and bolts of the political system, character and development of Britain's traditional democratic system, political parties and party competition, political and voting behaviour, and attitudes towards democracy.

Concerns theories underlying discussion of political problems and issues today, examining key ideas and thinkers, considering roots of contemporary debates about laws, policies, protest and resistance, covering topics including liberty, equality, human rights, punishment, democracy, gender, race, multiculturalism and cultural hegemony, civil disobedience, resistance and political violence, and other issues in domestic and international justice.

Introduces major political thinkers from 17th, 18th and 19th centuries including Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche and Douglass, introducing themes, argumentative strategies and critical interpretations of these thinkers, and showing how study of these thinkers illuminates contemporary discussion of freedom, pluralism, sovereignty and legitimacy.

Provides broad overview of how citizens, politicians and media interact across Western democracies during electoral and governing periods, covering production and consumption of political news, campaigns and their effects, and contemporary debates in political communication including ethical issues.

Work placement supported by the Department of Law and Criminology and the Royal Holloway Careers and Employability Service, forming an integral part of the degree course with assessed work that counts towards final degree classification. Royal Holloway cannot guarantee all students will secure a placement.

Examines the role of the European Union in the free movement of peoples, goods, services and capital, exploring legal enforcement of treaties on which the Union is based, EU institutions and their legal and policy-making powers, laws and functions of the European Commission, European Parliament, European Council and Court of Justice of the EU, and how free movement works across national borders and how EU law is enforced.

Examines equity and its relationship with common law, exploring the concept of a trust and laws associated with governing creation and administration of trusts, development of equity historically and how purpose trusts operate, creation of charitable trusts, duties of trustees, nature and scope of fiduciary obligations and when they might be breached, and particular types of trusts including secret trusts, resulting and constructive trusts.