Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module

Module title	Law with Legal Placement: Placement Module
Module code	LAW3700
Academic year	2021/2
Credits	120
Module staff	Professor Sue Prince (Lecturer)

Duration: Term	1	2	3
Duration: Weeks	10	11

Number students taking module (anticipated)	5

Module description

This module will assess your learning on your legal placement as a compulsory element of the LLB with Legal Placement Programme. It significantly increases and deepens your understanding of the legal workplace and issues relating to legal professionalism and the future of law beyond the academic learning in your academic modules. It gives you a deeper understanding of legal practice and learning through the experience of a different learning culture, develops your practical law skills (both through work experience and through writing your dissertation plan), broadening your overall experience of learning. The aim of the 'reflective log' element of the module is to focus your awareness on the impact of your placement, comparing expectations with realities and developing a critical awareness of reality of the legal workplace. You will be enabled to reflect on the problems posed by different working conditions and by the challenges of everyday life in an unfamiliar social and economic environment.

This module is only for students taking the LLB with Legal Placement.

Module aims - intentions of the module

This module aims to provide you with a detailed insight into the work of the law and innovative changes and developments in the legal profession. Through a variety of forms of assessment, it intends to encourage you to reflect on your practical experience and to give you a deeper and broader understanding of current legal issues affecting the legal profession.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

1. demonstrate critical awareness of the similarities and differences in approaches to law between a practical workplace-based experience and academic study at Exeter
2. demonstrate competence in locating, understanding and applying legal materials in the workplace;
3. demonstrate critical awareness of innovative approaches to law and developments in the future of the legal profession to help prepare for further legal study

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

4. demonstrate good awareness of the issues and complexities of legal practice;

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

5. demonstrate an awareness of the complexities of living and working in a professional environment,
6. successfully to negotiate those complexities;
7. identify and reflect on personal tasks and challenges and to learn from their resolution

Syllabus plan

The module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is however envisaged that the syllabus will cover most or all of the following topics:

Part I: The Transatlantic Relation and the West

Introduction
What and Who’s ‘West’?
Transatlantic Relations: History and Theory
Transatlantic Security Relations and NATO
The West and Civilizational Analysis

Part II: The West and World Order

The West and (Liberal) World Order
Western-Centrism in International Relations
Human Rights: Universal Norms or Western Standard of Civilization?
The Future of the West and World Order: Rising Powers and Authoritarianism

The Future of the West and World Order: Populism and the Far-Right

Final Seminar and Reflections

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
		1200

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Legal Work Placement	1200	Varies by organisation

Formative assessment

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Reflective log to be submitted to the Programme Director within 28 days of the end of the placement	500 words to be completed for the first department in which you are placed.	1-7	Written feedback
Business Report draft	No more than 1,000 words	1-7	Oral feedback

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

Details of summative assessment

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Business Report	50	3,500 words due within 28 days of the end of the placement	1-7	Written feedback
Placement Presentation	30	10-minute presentation to be delivered to a panel of placement professionals and academic representatives	1-7	Oral and written feedback
Reflective Log	20	500 words to be completed for each term plus an additional 800 words to be focused on innovation in law / developments and the future of the legal profession	1-7	Written feedback
	0
	0
	0

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Business Report	Business Report (3,500 words)	1-7	August/September reassessment period
Placement Presentation	Action Plan (30%)	1-7	August/September reassessment period
Reflective Log	Reflective Essay (1,800 words)	1-7	August/September reassessment period

Re-assessment notes

Deferred students will be reassessed in the element that has been mitigated. Students will be referred only if they achieve under 40% overall. If this is the case students will then be reassessed in any elements they have failed.

Please note if students do not achieve 40% on the reassessment attempt, they will be put on to the three year variant of their programme. This module will appear on your transcript as a fail, and you will no longer have ‘with Legal Placement’ in your degree title.

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

Transatlantic Relations

Alcaro, Riccardo, Peterson, John, and Greco, Ettore (eds.) (2016), The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

Anderson, Jeffrey, Ikenberry, G. John, and Risse-Kappen, Thomas (eds.) (2008), The End of the West? Crisis and Change in the Atlantic Order (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press).

Lundestad, Geir (2005), The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From “Empire” by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

The West

Browning, Christopher S. and Lehti, Marko (eds.) (2013), The Struggle for the West: a Divided and Contested Legacy (Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge)

Hellmann, Gunther and Herborth, Benjamin (eds.) (2017), Uses of 'the West': Security and the Politics of Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

O’Hagan, Jacinta (2002), Conceptualizing the West in International Relations: From Spengler to Said (Houndmills, N.Y.: Palgrave).

The West and World Order

Buzan, Barry and Lawson, George (2015), The global transformation: history, modernity and the making of international relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Fukuyama, Francis (2006), The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press).

Huntington, Samuel P. (1996), The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster).

Ikenberry, G. John (2011), Liberal Leviathan: the Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).

Vitalis, Robert (2015), White world order, black power politics: The birth of American international relations (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

Zarakol, Ayse (2010), After defeat: how the East learned to live with the West (Cambridge University Press).

Key words search

Legal Placement, Law, Work Experience.

Credit value	120
Module ECTS	60
Module pre-requisites	Acceptance onto the LLB - Law with Legal Placement Programme.
Module co-requisites	None
NQF level (module)	6
Available as distance learning?	No
Origin date	18/08/2017
Last revision date	26/08/2020