Law Dissertation Topics

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• Critically discuss homicide reform, the Law Commission’s reports, principles and proposals.
• The impact of the “war on terror” on international criminal law.
• Constructing the crime of rape and the boundaries of consent: the law, reform and development a critical analysis.
• Complainants in the criminal justice system: investigation and evidence.
• Problematising public order, State interests and the threat of groups.
• Critically discuss the Government’s proposals on the amendments to the law on provocation.
• Assess problems in identifying the nature, extent and distribution of crime.
• Critically discuss the law of omissions liability and ‘Bad Samaritan’ laws.
• Character, capacity, and choice conceptions of culpability.
• Types of theoretical analysis and the need for criminal theory; the concept of a crime, and the place of morality in criminal law.

• The fundamental purpose of commercial law is the facilitation of commercial transactions. Discuss. How does commercial law attempt to meet the needs of the commercial community?
• Is the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) better suited to international contracts than existing English sales law?
• Critically analyse the international commercial arbitration system.
• Principles of English commercial contracts, international commercial contracts and European contract law – a comparative analysis.
• Lex Marcatoria in England and Wales as choice of law for commercial arbitration proceedings.
• Security over personal property: possessory and non-possessory forms of security and other legal devices, which effectively create a security interest.
• The emergence of a new international commercial law.
• Critically discuss the creation of a tripartite financial system in the UK and its role, if any, in the credit crunch,
• A discussion of European Union Sale of Goods legislation and its place within the UK.
• Critically analyse the international law on the p

• An examination of shareholder verses stakeholder argument in relation to corporate governance.
• Non-executive director is an important element in the Anglo-American corporate legal system.
• Transplantation of corporate legal regimes: Does it promote better corporate governance?
• The protection of minority shareholders’ rights: Remedies to unfair prejudice and premises for bringing proceedings
• What are the arguments for and against ‘stakeholder theory’? Examine several arguments for and against the theory.
• Critically examine the legal and governance restrains on excessive executive director remuneration from the perspective of corporate governance.
• Critically assess the law on corporate manslaughter.
• UK Insolvency law and corporate rescue.
• A Critical analysis of the regulation of the UK public company.
• Protection of the minority shareholder.

• Critically analyse the issues of foresee ability and causation in relation to the duty to take care.
• A Critical analysis of economic loss.
• Where there is blame there is a claim – An analysis of the growing compensation culture in the UK.
• Gregg v Scott – Where does it leave loss of a chance?
• Is Bolam still the reasonable man? An analysis of the standard of care.
• Occupiers liability – When is a trespasser not a trespasser?
• Psychiatric injury – An impossible claim?
• The impact of Chester v Afshar on the law of Informed Consent.
• The duty of care owed to children – A step too far?
• The end of the road for loss of a chance?

• Critically review the UK’s discrimination policies
• Wrongful v Unfair – Which provides the greatest protection?
• Employment and disabled people: A comparative and critical review of the literature and the law in the UK and US.
• Legal aspects of the employee and employer relationship.
• The legal position of casual and agency workers in the UK and in Europe.
• Legal issues of the Contract of Employment.
• TUPE – Does it adequately protect the rights of employees?
• Do trade unions still have a role to play in English employment law?
• Has the Employment Tribunal improved the position of employees and employers respectively?
• Critically analyse the role of indirect discrimination in discrimination law.

• Critically assess the freedoms and their impact on the UK economy.
• The effectiveness of EC law contribution of direct effect and state liability. Is there a need for an EU Constitution?
• How important are enforcement actions against member states in the European law-making process?
• Is integration in the European Union best explained by Federalism or Neo-Functionalism
• EU political or economic: Tensions between social policy and trade.
• How has the European Convention on Human Rights contributed to international human rights law?
• To what extent does the European Union regulation of transport overlap with the regulation of state aid in the European Union?
• How have Articles 81 (1) and (3) improved international trade and competition within the EC?
• The effect of the European Union on Parliamentary Sovereignty.

• The economical impact of intellectual property rights.
• How is intellectual property protected on the Internet
• Passing off and trademark law – Do they provide adequate protection in the UK?
• Is the UK creating a right of confidence?
• Innovation and the patent system. Can the current, overly stringent patent system still be an incentive for innovation?
• Does UK copyright law provide an adequate balance between the needs of rights holders and users?
• Does the Fair Use principle provide an effective exemption to UK copyright law?
• How has European law effected intellectual property rights in the UK?
• P2P File Sharing – How far does the law protect the holders of the intellectual property rights?
• Does the UK intellectual property regime provide adequate protection? Compare and contrast with the position in the United States.

• Should the legal system in the UK be fused, i.e. Is there a case for one legal profession?
• To what extent do the different conceptualisations of Parliamentary Sovereignty affect the relationship between the courts and Parliament?
• Does the UK need a constitution?
• Discuss miscarriages of justice in the UK? Has the introduction of the Criminal Cases Review Commission improved the position?
• Critically analyse the UK’s system of Judicial Review – Does it go far enough?
• The legitimacy of the law is based upon its effectiveness- do you agree?
• Are select committees a useful and helpful check on government activities?
• What role does natural justice play in the UK Constitution?
• Are conventions still a valid part of the UK Constitution?
• Does the UK’s participation in the EU necessarily mean the end of Parliamentary Sovereignty?

• Following the UK’s Government’s current research on domestic violence consider in detail theoretical and therapeutic approaches to spouse abuse
• The Civil Partnership Act 2004. Have we felt the impact?
• Social and legal foundations of marriage, civil partnership and parenting.
• Is the “Best Interest” test outdated?
• Has the Child Support Act improved the position regarding child maintenance? If not, why not?
• Critically analyse the development of the law on divorce? Is it a product of the increased divorce rate or has it caused it?
• Critically analyse the role of the local authority in child welfare.
• Discuss the development of married women’s rights in property.
• Discuss the role of the various orders (i.e. contact, prohibited steps orders) in relation to the concept that the interest of the child is paramount.
• Family law – Is it time for reform?

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