Aspects of Transport Law (Advanced) module (LW41047)

This module covers the law of transport. You will study the rules that govern movement by sea, air, road, and rail. You’ll focus on both domestic law and international law in each of these areas. 

Transport law is vital for the functioning of the UK economy and world trade. An understanding of these legalities is important for lawyers in many different areas of practice. 

You’ll also discuss UK government transport policy over the last 200 years and look at how public international law and private international law intersect with domestic law in these areas. 

You will study law in context. This means following it from policy to implementation to outcome. You will draw on your own experience to judge how well it works. 

What you will learn 

 In this module, you will: 

• Learn about the law on where transport takes place 
• Study the law on different transport modes 
• Work with a wide range of domestic and international legal instruments, cases, policy papers, and government documents. 
• Consider contracts and other forms of commercial documents in use in the transport industry today 
• Explore government policy with a particular focus on rail privatisation 

By the end of this module, you will be able to: 

• Work with commercial documents 
• Reflect upon policy drivers and outcomes 
• Demonstrate your ability to work with a wide range of sources to provide advice to clients in the transport industry 
• Develop an overview of various different forms of regulation and transport.  

Assignments / assessment

• Applied coursework (40%) 
• ​Research essay (60%) 

​This module does not have a final exam.​ 

Teaching methods / timetable

• Student-led seminars based on prior reading 
• ​Module materials via the VLE (module handbook, resource list, and slides)​ 

This module can't be taken as well as LW31047 Aspects of Transport Law.