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In this chapter we discuss the standalone Socio-Legal Studies module that has been offered to undergraduate students at Bristol University since 2006. The module was offered initially to second and third-year law students; it is now limited to third-year law students, but is open to students from other departments and schools in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. The module is optional but has drawn a healthy number of students in the six years that it has run. The module is not intended to provide the detailed training which we offer at postgraduate level, but seeks to provide students with an encounter with law ‘from the outside’ through a social science lens. This has required a compromise between an approach based entirely on theory and one on empirical methods and research.
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McDermont, M., Morgan, B., Cowan, D. (2012). Socio-Legal Studies Module: The Bristol Experience. In: Hunter, C. (eds) Integrating Socio-Legal Studies into the Law Curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-01603-4_2
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