Law Minor (Level 2)
Law Single Honours (Level 2)
Law in Action is a 'clinical legal education' module which introduces you to how law works in the 'real world', through a series of lectures, supported by guided group work. The Law in Action course is designed to facilitate and empower you, as law students, to take an active and
reflective role in your learning, and to develop key transferable and applied communication skills in a realistic context. The course involves you working in groups to carry out legal research with a community partner organisation, which you will communicate through a community legal education presentation in local schools and colleges.
This exciting and innovative module has proved to be very popular with previous students, and will facilitate further opportunities for legal work experience with community partners.
To be able to apply legal research and problem solving techniques to legal issues in the community including the planning of information providing will be achieved by assessments: 1 and 2
To be able to communicate legal information to specialist and non-specialist audiences using appropriate techniques and to understand the legal and ethical issues arising will be achieved by assessments: 1 and 2
8 hours tutorials
4 hours field visits
30 hours tutorial preparation
40 hours group presentation preparation and research
60 hours portfolio preparation
Written portfolio offering a considered narrative account of the experience of participating in a community legal education program (1500 words) and an essay related to the topic of the community presentation (2500 words). To include references to legal principles and socio-legal factors, research materials, $ùclient&© feedback and experiential accounts of team working, preparing the presentation, and working with community groups. Marking guidelines will specify: legal accuracy, contextual and theoretical problem identification and clarity. Full guidance on the content of the portfolio will be given in the module handbook
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