LLB Law with Criminology

This course provides students with a knowledge and understanding of central themes within the study of medical law. It can be studied alone or as a precursor to LAWS30492 Medicine, Technology, Morals and the Law.

The course curriculum can vary from year to year but will typically cover the following:

1. Introduction to Medical Law and Medical Ethics
2. Assisted Reproduction
3. Autonomy
4. Consent
5. Confidentiality and Privacy
6. Clinical Negligence
7. Death
8. Coursework preparation and technique

• To provide within a programme of lectures, workshops and seminars, an analysis of the main legal principles that govern the regulation of health care in England and Wales
• To develop students' understanding of the key ethical principles that underpin health care practice and law in England and Wales
• To develop students' ability to appreciate how key ethical principles are incorporated into legal reasoning in the field of health care law.
• To develop students' independent research, team work and communication skills.

This course will consist of

• 30 hours of lectures, 3 of which will deal with study skills in the context of the study of medical law;
• 5 hours of seminars (fortnightly);
• 10 hours of  (weekly) direction and feedback drop in sessions

Lecture sessions will require advance reading to be undertaken by the students as where possible, exercises and discussions will take place during those sessions.

Seminars will adopt a variety of debate, group work and group discussion approaches.

Opportunities to provide feedback are built in to the course regularly.

Lectures will be interactive with discussion threads and blogs on Blackboard.

Seminars will draw on learning from the lecture slots and will provide students with further opportunities to develop their research, critical analysis and debating skills through scenario-based problem-solving and essay type questions.

There will be a high level of integration of learning between lecture slots and seminars. Active learning will take place in both.

In addition, effective use of Blackboard will be made in the form of discussion threads and 'blogs'.

• Appreciate and assess medico-legal problems from an ethical perspective as well as from a purely legal perspective
• Assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of the main case law and bioethics principles
• Think logically to assess competing arguments, and to solve problems.
• Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of relevant materials.

Argue a case orally and in writing

Organise time and meet deadlines

Work well within teams

Students will have the opportunity to receive feedback on written work through a non-assessed essay.

Feedback
Formative feedback will be provided with optional non-assessed coursework and in relation to seminar exercises.

Restricted to LLB (Law) and LLB/BA (Law with Politics) second year students.

This course is available to incoming study abroad students providing they have some knowledge of the law.