Module LAW3155 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3155: Law, Politics and Power
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
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 | 1,000 words | 1-7 | Written comments; oral feedback available on request |
Examination (take-home, open book) | 2 hours | 1-7 | Sample exam paper with self-marking material and guidance made available on ELE; further guidance from tutor available on request |
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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50 | 50 | 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 comprising two parts: (1) a 2,500-word essay and (2) a 500-word reflective commentary | 50 | 3,000 words in total | 1-7 | Written feedback; additional oral feedback available on request |
Examination (take-home, open book) | 50 | 2 hours intended duration (within a 24-hour submission window) | 1-7 | Written feedback |
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0 |
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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Essay comprising two parts: (1) a 2,500-word essay and (2) a 500-word reflective commentary | Essay comprising two parts: (1) a 2,500-word essay and (2) a 500-word reflective commentary (3,000 words in total) | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Examination (take-home, open book) | Examination (take-home, open book; same as above) | 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.
Basic reading:
NB This is not a required reading list – required readings for each topic cycle will be indicated on ELE.
General background reading:
J Wolff, An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP, 2016)
D Held, ‘Central Perspectives on the Modern State’, Ch 2 in G McLennan, D Held and S Hall, The Idea of the Modern State (1984)
J Hoffman and P Graham, Introduction to Political Theory (2015) Ch 5 ‘Democracy’
B Tamanaha, On the Rule of Law: History, Politics, Theory (2004)
B Crick, Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2002)
L Holmes, Communism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2009)
H Collins, Marxism and Law (1982)
K Passmore, Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2014)
R O Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004)
A Rocco, ‘The Political Doctrine of Fascism’ (1926) International Conciliation pp.393-415
M Stolleis, ‘European Twentieth-Century Dictatorship and the Law’ in Part VI of Heikki Pihlajamäki, M D Dubber, and M Godfrey (eds), The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (2018)