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About the Course

The common law of England and Wales is one of the major global legal traditions. This MOOC will give you an introduction to this influential legal system including its history, constitutional background, sources and institutions. You’ll learn about the different ways in which laws are made and interpreted, the English court system and the increasing importance of European Union and human rights law. Now is an especially exciting time to be learning about English common law, given the potential changes that lie ahead in today’s political, economic and social environment – all these pose challenges to and opportunities for the law. Each week we’ll focus on one aspect of English common law, using video lectures, readings, discussion questions and activities to enable you to learn about and evaluate key issues. Whether undertaken as a standalone course, or as preparation for the University of London’s world-class LLB degree, you will find this course interesting and stimulating. Please note that participation in or completion of this online course will not confer academic credit for University of London programmes....

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This was a fantastic course which helped me learn about the basics behind English Common Law. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone and everyone intrested in learning about the law.

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Very good overview to law, especially to someone who had never studied it before. Some parts were confusing, as I did not know the law term, but overall beneficial course.

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By Brenda X

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Dec 28, 2020

Great job!

By Doug P

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Apr 26, 2020

The title is a bit of a misnomer, because it's really about the English and Welsh law system (including statute law and international law as well as common law) and enforcement systems.

Bits of it are incredibly basic but bits of it have some interest. I did learn bits - but not much.

Whomever wrote the English subtitles obviously never studied the course; there are many "sounds alike" errors in there. The course is also out of date by at least 5 months (things change!) and there's 1 important broken video link, some text as images etc. so some accessibility issues.

It's a bit of a mickey mouse course really; and the £37 for assessment and a certificate is ridiculous. Nice earner for the University of London.

Not taxing though

By TN G

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Oct 22, 2022

This is a standard foundational course. The video lectures are very short and concise; but I always found myself going back for explanation and reading the adjoing transcript in the event that I missed something.

The course is a good course. I had hoped for more of an opinion from the lecturers. And the "optional" discussion should be made mandatory because students do leave inciteful feedback, we should be given credit for these towards a grade.

I benefited greatly from taking this course. So I do say thank you to all our lecturers.

By Eric J

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Jul 23, 2020

I give this course a 3 star out of 5. The reason why is that although the information is pretty good and decent it was still a little repetitive. Another thing is that the background music in every video is annoying and horrible background music I have ever heard in my life. The information could have been better and executed properly. Like some information I couldn't understand and most of them were very confusing. The videos are okay but a bit boring. Overall, decent course but could have done better with this course.

By Jane K

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Nov 12, 2022

The course work was incredibly interesting, and a fantastic base to the English legal system, but the lecturers were difficult to understand, extremely boring to listen to and mumbled/stumbled through much of the script. They looked bored with the content, were poor presenters and visually poorly presented themselves.

By Saba D - B

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Apr 17, 2021

In general, I was satisfied with the content, BUT please update the content, e.g when was the last election for European Commission or who is now the president... they are not up-to-date

By Noof A

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Oct 30, 2023

The course was quite informative with some challenging tasks to complete. It would have been more relevant to cover more content on the subject (e.g. how the legal profession works).

By ramazan y

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Jan 16, 2021

Bunun benim için zor olduğunu düşünüyorum, bu yüzden dinlemeyi anlamak için ingilizcemi geliştirmem gerekiyor. umarım kendimi geliştirebilirsem genel hukuk okumaya çalışırım

By Anita K

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May 20, 2020

Good overview, but it is let down by the lack of video tutorials. The course is using Reading materials as core teaching materials and not just as additional information.

By Abiodun M O

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Jun 11, 2019

A strong course with some great ideas in it. I would have liked to see a more explicit and embedded recognition of the rule of law throughout.

By K U

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Jan 30, 2020

It really enhanced my knowledge about English common law and it's origin

By Sergio S S

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Jun 5, 2020

The classes should be more completes.

By Matthew W

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Feb 17, 2023

slow peer review but good quizzes

By Dariga

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Aug 15, 2024

Let's start with the good: 1. The course gives the basics and covers many areas. 2. There is a glossary. 3. Basic concepts covered. Precedents, courts, EU, Constitution. 4. Discussions. They take up a lot of space in content that is scarce! but it’s very nice that our opinion is asked and you try to involve us in all sorts of activities. Very cute actually) Cons. There are more of them: 1. VERY LITTLE MATERIAL. I completed the course by speedrun in few days. At the same time, I read and watched everything mandatory. It is written that with hard work you can complete it in 3 weeks, but there is too little information for 3 weeks! 2. The information is superficial. By the end of the course, I still did not understand what common law, distinct court and secondary legislation are. I had to google all this extra. This didn't happen in my previous course, where everything was explained. Like, guys, you didn't explain ADR and asked to answer the questions about it. 3. Big job at the end. I didn't expect this. It seems to me that there is not enough information for us to study the entire system at least superficially and find shortcomings. 4. Nothing about EHRC. I wanted to take the course for my project, but in the end, unfortunately, I found very little useful. 5. Texts are little. You can read them in 2 minutes rather than in 10 or 20. Little to note. No clarifications. Like the difference between tribunal and ordinary court is that firsts are informal. And? That's it. No more differences talked. 6. Some documents does not open! Magna Carta is one of them! Anyway, thanks for the course! It was exciting, I improved my English and killed time. The certificate is beautiful)

By Sharon A S

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Jun 15, 2021

Confused as to why participation with peers was optional throughout the course but compulsory at the end. I am extremely disappointed that this was the method used to determine if someone will receive a certificate or not. I enrolled in the above because I wanted the knowledge but had absolutely no interest in interacting with any other student. Yes, the overview of the course speaks about quizzes, peer review etc. but it is unconscionable of you to make participation with peers optional from the beginning of the course but make it compulsory at the end. If in the first instance, this would be compulsory, I would have withdrawn from the course.

I really enjoyed doing the course but my inability to get my certificate has left a very bitter taste in my mouth. I will not make the mistake of signing up for any other course.

Please update your questions for End of Week Quiz 6. The EU questions are in relation to elections in 2014. There was an election in 2019.

By Ed M

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Feb 17, 2022

I've never taken the course, or signed up for it. I have no interest in this course. I write to Coursera and get it deleted from my profile, then it goes a couple of weeks and gets added again. The course keeps coming back like a bad venereal disease. So I decided to give it a bad rating. Maybe by doing that it won't get added to me again. It's a shame that people have to resort to such desperate tactics to get deleted from a course.

By Annanya S

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Dec 11, 2023

I've got a 99% showing as overall process but it's still not showing what the remaining 1% is. I've been trying to figure the remaining 1% by doing the whole course all over again n still it's showing 99% only. I really need this certificate.

By michelle n

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Dec 4, 2023

Even though I spent hours doing the coursework, my progress would never show 100% completed even though I am not taking this class for a certificate.

By Napela s

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Oct 4, 2023

To slow to avaluate final grades such as peep