Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Law
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
6301LAWPL-JAN-MTP
Aims
To provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of the structure, sources and content of the law relating to social justice in England, and its socio-legal and doctrinal underpinning.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify and critically analyse key doctrinal, jurisprudential and socio-legal issues in a wide range of contemporary social justice topics
2.
Identify and critically analyse the impact of rights and responsibilities relevant to social justice.
3.
Identify and critically analyse the overlaps between the topics studied e.g. disability and the elderly; ASB, disability and housing; education and human rights; migration and equality
4.
Construct clear written arguments supported by relevant primary and secondary sources.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Contextual Overview of Issues Relating to Social Justice: the Meanings of Social Justice and the Groups in Society Likely to be Most Affected
Disability and Discrimination in Relation to Social Justice
Equality and Human Rights in Relation to Social Justice
Precarity of Tenure and Access to Social Housing
Rights and Responsibilities in Housing
Anti-Social Behaviour and Social Exclusion
Rights and the Non-Economic Migrant
Education Law
The Elderly Client
Safeguards and Dispute Resolution
Crisis point workshops [pre-assessment]
Module Overview:
To provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of the structure, sources and content of the law relating to social justice in England, and its socio-legal and doctrinal underpinning. Module considers law in a social justice context. This module will be an option on the LLB Law and LLB Law and Criminal Justice programmes.
To provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of the structure, sources and content of the law relating to social justice in England, and its socio-legal and doctrinal underpinning. Module considers law in a social justice context. This module will be an option on the LLB Law and LLB Law and Criminal Justice programmes.
Additional Information:module considers law in a social justice context. This module will be an option on the LLB Law and LLB Law and Criminal Justice programmes.
Assessments
Essay
Report