Professor W T Murphy, NAB 7.22

For LLM students, MSc Law, Anthropology and Society, MSc Regulation and MSc Regulation (Research). Some knowledge of British political and economic history in the period is desirable.

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

A survey of developments in English law in the period 1750-1950 in their social, economic and political context. Not all the specific topics listed in the syllabus will be covered in any year.

Topics will be selected from the following list: Sources and methods; Social change, law reform and the main movements in political and economic thought, Constitutional and administrative law; reform of Parliament and local government; Judicial review; Police and criminal law; The legal system: courts, legal profession, procedural reform; Contract: theoretical basis, commercial contracts, consumer contracts, public policy; Tort: negligence, nuisance, economic torts; Land law: settlements, married women, conveyancing; Personal status: marriage and divorce, family support, children; Associations: incorporation and other forms of business organisation; trade unions and legal regulation of labour; Social welfare law; relief of poverty, public health, environmental control, safety, education.

One weekly two-hour seminar (LL474), Sessional.

No formal written work is prescribed but students will be expected to make presentations to the seminar.

A detailed reading list is available at the beginning of the course from either of the teachers responsible.

By means of 15,000 word dissertation due in August.