SQE Preparation 1 (30 credits)
The module is developed for law graduates starting out on their pre-qualification journey of professional legal education and focuses on developing technical and practical proficiency through innovative learning methods. This is module develops competency in the practice-based application of the law and rules of ethics across Business Law & Practice, Dispute Resolution (with contract and tort), Public & EU Law, Legal Services & Legal Systems, Property Practice (with land law), Criminal Law & Practice, and Wills and Administration of Estates (with trusts and solicitors accounts). 

SQE Preparation 2 (30 credits)
The module is developed for graduates starting out on their pre-qualification journey of professional legal education and focuses on developing technical and practical proficiency in the skills, in the context of specified practice areas, through innovative learning methods. The module develops competency in advocacy, interviewing, attendance note taking/legal analysis, case and matter analysis (including negotiation strategies), drafting, research and writing. You will learning about practice areas including Criminal Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Property Practice, Wills and Intestacy, Probate Administration and Practice, and Business Law and Practice.

Dissertation/Extended Case Study/Project LLM SQE Preparation (60 credits)
The extended project/case study/dissertation enables the students to tailor their extended research and analysis into a sphere directly applicable to their work or alternatively an academic piece of research. The flexibility with this final module allows the students to enhance their understanding in a specific area of law in an innovative way which is directly relevant to their work to enhance their career
prospects.

Life, Death and the Human Body (30 credits)
In this module, you will study topics such as disability and impairment, ethical issues surrounding assisted dying, withdrawing and withholding treatment, terminal sedation, death, dying and the law, advance directives, organ donation, conscientious objection in healthcare, and assignment guidance and feedback. The module may include talks by visiting speakers, which provide an insight into academic work in healthcare ethics and law taking place in other institutions.

Healthcare, Justice and Society (30 credits)
The module enables students to apply and extend their knowledge of ethical and legal concepts, principles and theories in the context of practical issues in healthcare affecting the relations between healthcare practitioners, patients and wider society, and to acquire knowledge and critical understanding of a range of contemporary ethical and legal controversies surrounding a range of such issues. Topics covered typically include biomedical research ethics and law, ethics of healthcare resource allocation, ethical and legal issues in genetics and reproductive technology, and vaccine ethics and law.

Mental Capacity (30 credits)
Mental capacity is a complex and contested concept, clinically, ethically and legally. The extent to which an adult has capacity to make decisions is often a key consideration in adult safeguarding cases.  In this module you will acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to form a considered opinion on a theoretical body of knowledge which is located in very real cases of individual need.

International Economic and Commercial Law (30 credits)
You will be equipped with knowledge of the principles and theories of world trade law, international investment law and transnational commercial law. You will be encouraged to think critically about topics, such as GATT/WTO law, trade and environment/development, electronic commerce, investment standards of protection, corporate responsibility and investment, investor-state dispute resolution, conflict of laws, international sale of goods and international commercial arbitration.

International Human Rights Law (30 credits)
You will become equipped with knowledge and understanding of the principles, theories and norms of international human rights law. You will be actively encouraged to think critically about topics, and this will be encouraged throughout the module which is split into two distinct yet complementary sections; the ‘Foundations of International Human Rights Law’ and ‘Challenges to Human Rights’. This first section of the module will provide you with an in-depth overview of foundational concepts which are essential to help you think about the development of international human rights law and the challenges connected hereto. The second section of the module will build upon your learning and will introduce you to a range of contemporary challenges drawing upon research expertise, including women’s rights, children’s rights, slavery and migration.

Community Outreach and Social Legal Advocacy (30 credits)
The module introduces you to the pioneering innovations in social and legal studies in community legal education, socio-legal advocacy and reflective practice. You will engage in a 45hrs/ 5-week internship with leading third sector organizations through the Community Legal Outreach Collaboration Keele, CLOCK. Engaging in a placement in socio-legal advocacy, you will develop critical academic social and legal research skills through an interactive and reflective learning experience. This will help you develop employability skills to be leaders in the local and international fields of social and legal services.

Law of the EU Internal Market (30 credits)
This module introduces and builds in-depth knowledge of the principles, theories, and norms relating to the law governing the European Union's Internal Market (Single Market), with a particular focus on the four freedoms of that market: free movement of goods, services, capital, and people. You will be encouraged to think critically about the European Union's Internal Market as a model of regional economic integration and to compare and contrast it with other models.