Course Content
Year 1 (60 credits)
Compulsory Core Modules (50 credits)
- Understanding the Law (10 credits)
- Critical Thinking for Lawyers (10 credits)
- Constitutional Law (10 credits)
- Contract Law (10 credits)
- Tort Law (10 credits)
Optional Modules (10 credits)
- Family Law (10 credits)
- Language: Legal French/ Legal German/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
Year 2 (60 credits)
Compulsory Core Modules (50 credits)
- Criminal Law I & II (10 credits)
- European Union Law I & II (10 credits)
- Company Law I & II (10 credits)
- Evidence Law I & II (10 credits)
- Administrative Law I (5 credits)
- Mooting (5 credits)
Optional Modules (10 credits)
- Labour Law I (5 credits)
- Labour Law II (5 credits)
- Industrial and Intellectual Property Law (5 credits)
- Comparative Disability Law (5 credits)
- Information Technology Law (5 credits)
- Language: Legal French/ Legal German/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits each)
Year 3 (60 credits)
- In third year, students can customise their off-campus experience by choosing either professional work placement or study abroad.
Year 4 (60 credits)
Compulsory Core Modules (35 credits)
- Equity I & II (10 credits)
- Land Law I & II (10 credits)
- Jurisprudence (5 credits)
- Legal & Business Ethics (5 credits)
- Guided Research Essay (5 credits)
- Optional Specialist Streams (25 credits)
Students will have the opportunity to shape their degree by choosing a specialist stream. Students may choose one of the following specialist streams including the ‘General’ stream which allows students to choose modules from multiple streams. Certain specialist streams have prerequisite modules which must be passed before choosing the stream in the final year.
Business and Commercial Law
- Banking Law (5 credits)
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (5 credits)
- Labour Law I (5 credits)
- Labour Law II (5 credits)
- Commercial Law (5 credits)
- International Trade Law (5 credits)
- Law and Economics (5 credits)
- Industrial and Intellectual Property Law (5 credits)
- Comparative Competition Law (5 credits)
- Entrepreneurial Venture Development (5 credits)
- Law and Innovation (5 credits)
Public Law, Risk and Regulation
- Environmental Law I (5 credits)
- Environmental Law II (5 credits)
- Criminology (5 credits)
- Housing Law & Policy (5 credits)
- Information Technology Law (5 credits)
- Industrial and Intellectual Property Law (5 credits)
- Admin Law II (5 credits)
- Entrepreneurial Venture Development (5 credits)
- Law and Innovation (5 credits)
Human Rights, Crime and Equality
- Criminology (5 credits)
- Family Law (10 credits)
- Labour Law I (5 credits)
- Labour Law II (5 credits)
- Housing Law & Policy (5 credits)
- Applied Legal Theory (5 credits)
- European Human Rights Law – Systems & Themes I (5 credits)
- European Human Rights Law – Systems & Themes II (5 credits)
- Comparative Disability Law (5 credits)
- Public International Law (10 credits)
- International Human Rights I (5 credits)
- International Human Rights II (5 credits)
International, Comparative and Transnational Law
- Comparative Disability Law (5 credits)
- Applied Legal Theory (5 credits)
- Public International Law (10 credits)
- Comparative Competition Law (5 credits)
- International Trade Law (5 credits)
- European Human Rights Law – Systems & Themes I (5 credits)
- European Human Rights Law – Systems & Themes II (5 credits)
- International Human Rights I (5 credits)
- International Human Rights II (5 credits)
Language
Students who choose a language must also choose 15 credits worth of modules on other streams to meet credit requirements.
- Legal German / Legal French/ Teanga an Dlí (Legal Irish) (10 credits)
