Module LAWM089 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM089: Consumer Protection
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
The module aims to provide a critical understanding of the goals and instruments of Consumer law, the emergence (and the tensions) of this ‘europeanised’ regime, an overview of the realignment initiatives in this area and a deeper understanding of the enforcement issues (public and private as well as resort to ADR and ODR). The module aims to enable students to understand, assess and critically address the issues at stake in this area.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate deep, systematic and critical understanding of the role, aims and underlying principles of Consumer law; 2. demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of the goals and instruments of Consumer law; 3. identify, explain, assess and analyse issues arising in the areas of Consumer law and identify and apply relevant legal rules and theories to those issues. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. demonstrate a high level of ability in selecting, integrating and presenting coherently and reflectively, relevant law and legal/theoretical arguments; 5. demonstrate a high level of ability in integrating and assessing information from a wide variety of primary and secondary legal sources, using this to produce reasoned arguments and analysis in relation to legal issues. |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. demonstrate effective, confident and autonomous ability to manage relevant learning resources/ information/ learning strategies and to develop own reasoned arguments and opinions; and 7. communicate and engage in debate effectively and accurately, orally and in writing, in a manner appropriate to the discipline and context. |
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay: title provided by lecturer. | 2,000 words | 1-7 | Written/oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay: select one title from a list supplied by the lecturer and based on themes covered in class. | 100 | 7,500 | 1-7 | Written/oral |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Coursework | As per original assessment | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Ramsay, Consumer Law and Policy (3rd Ed., Hart, 2012);
Furmston & Chuah, Commercial law (2nd Ed., Pearson, 2013 (Chs.7 and 8);