Pick your year, then your module.
Tort Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 1). Civil wrongs and the compensation that follows them โ above all the tort of negligence, but also nuisance, defamation and the rules on who bears the loss.
Contract Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 1). The law of agreements: when a promise becomes legally binding, what its terms mean, when it can be escaped, and what happens when it is broken. The backbone of the first-year qualifying-law syllabus.
UK Constitutional Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 1). The constitutional relationship between the citizen, Parliament, the executive and the courts โ and the grounds on which government action can be challenged.
EU Constitutional Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 1). The law of the European Union and its relationship with domestic law โ still examined on most LLBs, with a growing focus on retained EU law after Brexit.
The Individual and the State on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 1). The constitutional relationship between the citizen, Parliament, the executive and the courts โ and the grounds on which government action can be challenged.
Introduction to English Law & Legal Method on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 1). The foundational legal-method skills the rest of the degree is built on โ finding the law, reading cases, interpreting statutes and writing like a lawyer.
Land Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 2). Rights in and over land โ how they are created, who is bound by them, and how competing interests are ranked under the registered-title system.
Trusts Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 2). The body of principles that supplements the common law โ above all the trust, the most important contribution of English law to private-law thinking.
Criminal Law on the Durham University LLB Law (Year 2). The principles of criminal responsibility โ the conduct and mental states the law punishes, the major offences, and the defences that excuse or justify.