This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law and LLB in Laws. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law and LLB in Laws. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course will have a minimum of two hours of teaching content each week in Michaelmas Term and Lent Term.?Teaching will be conducted primarily through weekly two hour group-based classes and one hour plenary seminars. This contact time will be supported by a series of presentation-based lectures covering each course theme. Students will also receive supervision in respect of a short research paper.?This course includes a reading week in Weeks 6 of Michaelmas Term and Lent Term.
Students will be expected to submit two formative essays or essay plans, one in MT one in LT, in support of the development of their summative coursework.
Supporting texts for the course include Millar and Scott, Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest (Oxford University Press, 2016); Parkes and Mullis (eds) Gatley on Libel and Slander (13th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 2021), Moreham and Warby (eds), Tugendhat and Christie: The Law of Privacy and the Media (3rd edn, Oxford University Press, 2016), and Barendt et al, Media Law: Texts, Cases and Materials (Pearson, 2013); Leveson, An Inquiry Into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press: Report, HC 780, 2012. These and other materials relevant to the course are generally made available via the BLPES electronic resources or online.
Essay (50%, 4000 words) in the ST. Essay (50%, 4000 words) in the LT. During the year, students must complete two 4,000 word research essays on themes set by or agreed with the course convenor. The grades achieved for these papers will each comprise 50% of the overall grade for the course.