Module LAW3700 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3700: Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to provide you with a detailed insight into the work of the law and innovative changes and developments in the legal profession. Through a variety of forms of assessment, it intends to encourage you to reflect on your practical experience and to give you a deeper and broader understanding of current legal issues affecting the legal profession.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate critical awareness of the similarities and differences in approaches to law between a practical workplace-based experience and academic study at Exeter 2. demonstrate competence in locating, understanding and applying legal materials in the workplace; 3. demonstrate critical awareness of innovative approaches to law and developments in the future of the legal profession to help prepare for further legal study |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. demonstrate good awareness of the issues and complexities of legal practice; |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. demonstrate an awareness of the complexities of living and working in a professional environment, 6. successfully to negotiate those complexities; 7. identify and reflect on personal tasks and challenges and to learn from their resolution |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is however envisaged that the syllabus will cover most or all of the following topics:
Part I: The Transatlantic Relation and the West
- Introduction
- What and Who’s ‘West’?
- Transatlantic Relations: History and Theory
- Transatlantic Security Relations and NATO
- The West and Civilizational Analysis
Part II: The West and World Order
- The West and (Liberal) World Order
- Western-Centrism in International Relations
- Human Rights: Universal Norms or Western Standard of Civilization?
- The Future of the West and World Order: Rising Powers and Authoritarianism
The Future of the West and World Order: Populism and the Far-Right
- Final Seminar and Reflections
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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1200 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Legal Work Placement | 1200 | Varies by organisation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
Transatlantic Relations
Alcaro, Riccardo, Peterson, John, and Greco, Ettore (eds.) (2016), The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
Anderson, Jeffrey, Ikenberry, G. John, and Risse-Kappen, Thomas (eds.) (2008), The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press).
Lundestad, Geir (2005), The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From “Empire” by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
The West
Browning, Christopher S. and Lehti, Marko (eds.) (2013), The Struggle for the West: a Divided and Contested Legacy (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge)
Hellmann, Gunther and Herborth, Benjamin (eds.) (2017), Uses of 'the West': Security and the Politics of Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
O’Hagan, Jacinta (2002), Conceptualizing the West in International Relations: From Spengler to Said (Houndmills, N.Y.: Palgrave).
The West and World Order
Buzan, Barry and Lawson, George (2015), The global transformation: history, modernity and the making of international relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Fukuyama, Francis (2006), The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press).
Huntington, Samuel P. (1996), The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster).
Ikenberry, G. John (2011), Liberal Leviathan: the Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
Vitalis, Robert (2015), White world order, black power politics: The birth of American international relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).
Zarakol, Ayse (2010), After defeat: how the East learned to live with the West (Cambridge University Press).