Law

This course gives you the knowledge and confidence to understand, question and apply the law. At Kent, law is taught critically - not just as rules to be learned, but as a system that shapes the world and can be shaped in return.

You’ll study all the essential subjects of a law degree, but you’ll also look beneath the surface.

You’ll explore how law works in practice, who it serves, and how it could be made fairer, more effective, and more inclusive.

You’ll be taught by active researchers, legal professionals, and experts in legal education, and you can gain real experience working on live cases in our pioneering Law Clinic.

With lawyering skills built into the curriculum and a wide range of optional modules, you’ll graduate with the tools to thrive in the legal profession - or wherever your ambition takes you.

Year 2

Compulsory modules currently include the following:

• Property Law

• Tort Law

• Equity and Trusts

• EU Law

Optional modules may include the following:

• Understanding the World’s Codified Legal Systems

• Justice After Atrocity: The Principles and Practices of International Criminal Law

• Labour Law

• Law and Medical Ethics

• Law and the Coroner

• Jurisprudence: The Philosophy of Law

• Policing

• Sports Law

• Welfare Rights and the Welfare State

• Justice: A Critical Examination of Law and Justice

• The Skills of Argument: How to Argue and Win

• Environmental Law

• International Law: Principles and Sources

• Animal Law

• Appropriate Dispute Resolution: Theory & Practice

• Criminal Forensic Evidence

Year 3

Optional modules may include the following:

• International Humanitarian Law

• Advanced Topics in Property Law

• Human Rights and Equality at Work

• Clinical Option (Autumn)

• Morality and Law

• Clinical Option (Spring)

• Banking Law

• Human Rights and English Law

• International Economic Law

• The Law of Evidence

• International Human Rights Law in Context

• International Law and Global Problems

• Tax Law

• Law, Space and Power

• Race, Sexuality and Gender Justice

• Immigration Law

• Comparative Law

• Law, Science and Technology

• Law and Social Change

• The Vulnerable Person in the Criminal Trial

• Privacy, Data Protection and Cyber Law

• Advanced Topics in Privacy and Cyber Law

• Law and the Political for the 21st Century

• Global Corporate Accountability

• Music and Law

• Asylum and Refugee Law

• Advanced Topics in Tort Law

• Advanced Topics in Law and Medical Ethics

• Legal Ethics: The Ethics of Lawyers and Lawyering

• Family Law

• Homelessness Law and Policy

Year 1

Compulsory modules currently include the following:

• Institutions of Justice

• Critical Introduction to Law

• Public Law

• Contract Law

• Criminal Law

• Introduction to Legal Theories