BSc Management

This course unit will examine how the law operates to ensure coherence, fairness and efficiency in the conduct of business.

This includes the common law method of creating, interpreting and progressing the law, through two particularly creative areas of business law – contract and negligence. The unit  aims  to demonstrate the commercial status of English law especially, and its important  place in the international business context.

The unit will focus on the practical application of rules to real and hypothetical case studies, and  the everyday relevance via current issues in the business world.

On completion of this course unit students should have:

• A fundamental awareness and understanding of common law attitudes to business regulation and the importance for the international business world.
• A fundamental awareness and understanding of the original common law system on which the others are modelled worldwide.
• The ability to research existing law and to track new law as it develops, by locating and updating information from a variety of specialist sources in a fast moving legal area and  by analysing legal trends and assessing their importance for business strategy.
   

Lectures and Seminars

 

Virtual Learning Environment

Lecture slides and seminar materials will be provided on Canvas

 

Total study hours: 100 hours split between lectures, classes, self study and preparation for classes and coursework.

Coursework (100%)

• Informal advice and discussion during lectures and seminars
• Specific course related feedback sessions
• Written comments on assessed coursework

These are suggested texts, other texts may be recommended during the first lecture. You are not obliged to purchase any of the texts on this list. If you do purchase a textbook, choose a style which suits you ; if you miss a lecture you will need to supplement your lecture slides.

!! n.b. always double check you have the latest edition !!

n.b. page numbers will not be given, you are expected to locate information within given texts as part of your skills development.

 

General Coverage

Adams, Caplan & Lockwood Law for Business Students  ( Pearson )

Jones, Introduction to Business Law  ( OUP )

Marson & Ferris, Business Law  ( OUP )

Macintyre, Business Law ( Pearson )

Riches,  Keenan & Riches Business Law ( Pearson )

Card & James, Business Law (OUP)  

 

Various websites, library & other electronic resources and further reading, as directed, including : www.westlaw.co.uk and www.lexisnexis.co.uk  and www.lexology.com  

 

Various consumer law programmes are available on TV, radio and podcasts (  the LBC ‘Consumer Hour’ is especially useful for you ).

 

Specialist Areas

Chen-Wishart,  Contract Law ( OUP )

Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston Law of Contract ( OUP )

Richards  Law of Contract  ( Pearson )

Taylor & Taylor Contract Law - Directions Series ( OUP )

Cooke,  Law of Tort  ( Pearson )

Horsey & Rackley, Tort ( OUP )

Cheeseman Contemporary Business Law (Pearson )

Hanson , Learning Legal Skills & Reasoning ( Routledge )

Haigh, Legal English   ( Routledge  ) 

Programme Restrictions: Available only on the following programmes Level 2 BSc Management/Management (specialism), BSc International Management, BSc IBFE, BSc ITMB & BA (Econ); Option  for level 3 BA ( Econ)

Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2027 will be £10,050 per annum. Tuition fees for international students will be £35,300 per annum.

For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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