Criminal Law Theory and History

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenors: Professor Elena Loizidou, Dr Piyel Haldar, Dr Anton Schutz
• Assessment: a 4000-word essay (100%)

In this module we will provide you with state-of-the-art training in the advanced study of modern criminal law. You will gain comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of the history and theories of modern criminal law. The module has a humanities focus, and enables the interdisciplinary study of modern criminal law.

Indicative syllabus

• Modern criminal law: 'origins' and theoretical outlook
• The subject of criminal law: the criminal
• Theoretical conceptions of responsibility in modern criminal law
• The concept of revenge in modern criminal law
• Modern law of evidence: 'origins' and theoretical outlook
• Post-colonial history and theories of evidence