Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Law
Module Offerings
7210LAWGD-JAN-MTP
Aims
To provide students with a critical understanding of the legal responses to the formation, dissolution and regulation of family relationships. To critically evaluate the law in relation to the parent/child relationship and domestic violence.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the legal context and regulation of various familial relationships.
2.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the impact of human rights jurisprudence on family law
3.
Demonstrate a well-developed ability to use a wide variety of standard and legal and other electronic sources of information.
4.
Demonstrate a developed ability to present a critical and analytical argument in a way which is comprehensible to others and which addresses their particular concerns or questions.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Legal regulation of domestic relationships: family generally, marriage and civil partnerships, parent and child.
Parenthood, parentage and parental responsibility.
Protection from domestic violence, legal responses and socio-legal perspectives
Children’s rights and autonomy.
Additional Information:The course is broken down into subject specific sessions with a view to emphasizing particular legislative or common-law authorities, but there is an emphasis on the socio-legal and political context of family law and common themes are identified and emphasized as the course develops.