You will study the Scott inquiry into the Iraqui super-gun affair, the Spycatcher litigation, cases involving government immigration policy and many, many others. Studying law involves analysing the fundamental rules of property law. These topics will consider issues as disparate as banking and shipping contracts at one end, and the rules governing domestic mortgages and leases at the other. These issues are intellectually complex as well as sophisticated at the purely legal level. Studying law involves analysing the law of contract.
Contract is key to much sociology as well as to most legal systems.
Studying law involves considering the emergence of the European Union and the possibilities for creating a polity out of a collection of sovereign member states. A number of EU regulations and directives form a part of English law. However, the style in which European legal systems frame their laws is very different from the ways in which English law has traditionally been framed. Therefore, there is a broad range of issues to considered in this regard in relation to commercial law, the law governing the creative arts, and the law relating to the equal treatment of men and women. Studying law involves considering the different treatments of human rights around the world.