Consumer and Marketing Law

Code

LAWW3095

School

Law

Level

3

Credits

20

Semesters

Spring UK

Summary

The module examines the role of the law in protecting consumers and regulating unfair commercial practices. It looks at the rationales for intervening in the market to protect consumers and then at how consumers’ economic interests are protected in practice. Some areas this module may look at are consumer protection and private law, enforcing consumer law, the rationale for protecting consumers. 

Target Students

Available to Final Year students in the School of Law and exchange students hosted by the School of Law.

Classes

This module is taught through a combination of lectures and tutorials.

Assessment

• 100% Exam 1 (3-hour): Electronic examination.

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module, students will be able to:

1.    Understand and critically evaluate the rationales that underpin the regulation of consumers' economic interests

2.    Understand and critically evaluate the principal instruments for protecting consumers with particular reference to the strengths and weaknesses of the options available.

3.    Apply public regulation to complex practical examples.

4.    Understand and critically evaluate the private law that attempts to protect consumers’ economic interests, and to differentiate between the protections given to consumers and the protections given in transactions.

5.    Apply the private law to complex practical examples.

6.    Understand and critically evaluate the law relating to unfair commercial practices.

7.    Understand and critically evaluate the different ways that consumer law may be enforced

8.    Reflect critically on the strengths and weaknesses of the UK consumer law regime.
 

Conveners

• Professor Peter Cartwright