In Scotland they need to choose two courses from a whole range of compulsory courses. For England, Wales and Northern Ireland the choice has, in essence, already been made. We have to select 6 courses from what until now have been considered core courses. In addition, Law for non- lawyers is a course which will be useful to large numbers of students taught under service teaching arrangements. European Community Law has to be included in view of the new emphasis on this area.
Trusts law appears to be in the process of demotion.
Our brief is to develop courses for the whole academic community. This is a reasonably cohesive community, and too much should not be made of the tensions between black letter and contextual approaches to legal education. Nevertheless, there is the danger of trying to please everybody, resulting in a bland concoction. Yet, if courseware is too particularistic, it may only be used in the odd institution. We intend to rely on two principles of danger prevention.