Law
Power, the State and the Individual
Module code: M3477
Level 4
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Essay
On this module, you’ll explore how power operates in relation to law, society, the state, governance and rights.
You’ll draw on interdisciplinary approaches, including the:
- legal
- political
- critical
- social
- feminist
- postcolonial.
You’ll examine how power functions within modern states and interacts with global political, legal, cultural, gender and economic relations. You’ll consider both theoretical and historical accounts of:
- legitimacy
- democracy
- globalisation
- human rights.
Pre-requisite
Public Law 1 (M3406)
Module learning outcomes
- Understand the basic theoretical principles that apply to power, rights and the modern state.
- Understand the core elements of legal, political, critical, social, feminist and postcolonial theory.
- Develop arguments that apply a knowledge of theory to an analysis of power, rights and the modern state.
- Analyse and examine contemporary problems related to power and governance.