Module LAWM089 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM089: Consumer Protection
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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 develop your own reasoned arguments and opinions; and 7. communicate and engage in debate effectively and accurately, in a manner appropriate to the discipline and context. |
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.
Basic reading:
For each week, a reading list is posted on ELE indicating the mandatory and recommended reading materials, which may be looked up either in the CURIA database (see link below) or through the University of Exeter Library databases.
Further, these textbooks may provide students with some general knowledge on consumer protection:
T Wilhelmsson & G Howells, Consumer Law (Edward Elgar 2019)
Ch Twigg-Flesner, Research Handbook on EU Consumer and Contract Law (Edward Elgar 2016)
N Reich et al, European Consumer Law (2nd ed, Intersentia 2014)
S Weatherill, EU Consumer Law and Policy (2nd ed, Edward Elgar 2014)
I Ramsay, Consumer Law and Policy (3 rd Ed, Hart 2012);