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This course examines and debates a mixture of current issues in contract law (and in some cases its interface with unjustified enrichment) with specific reference to Scots law. The law of contractual damages provides a central focus for understanding the rights and remedies which flow from the making of a contract, though sometimes topics may also relate to the relevance of unjustified enrichment to contractual situations where the availability of contractual remedies is unclear.

10x2 hours seminars.

This course is principally available to LLB students (Scots Law only; there are some significant differences between Scots and English law in this area).

Also open to visiting students if they have taken relevant courses in the law of contract previously. But students should understand that the course is primarily designed from a Scots law perspective.

Required: Admission to Honours in the LLB; passes in Obligations 1B LAW 1022/1039.

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One essay of 2000 words worth 25% (also formative), one final examination worth 75% of the overall grade; students to answer 2 questions from 4 in 2 hours.

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

The aims of the course are:

• to enable students to study primary legal sources in relation to the law of contract and related parts of the law of obligations

• to enable students to evaluate academic writing on the law of contract and related parts of the law of obligations

• to enable students to assess hypotheses and solutions against primary materials

• to enable students to engage with academic discourse and discussion

• to develop students skills in using primary materials, to argue rationally and to write effectively.

By the end of course students will be able to demonstrate:

• an understanding of relevant issues in the law of contract and related parts of the law of obligations

• an ability to engage in academic debate in relation to debatable issues in the law of contract and related parts of the law of obligations

• an ability to assess critically academic arguments and hypotheses

• an ability to identify, locate and evaluate primary sources.

•an ability to write coherent and original essays on relevant topics.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.