Law with Social Justice  (LWW9)

The programme is for students who wish to add to a profound understanding of Irish law along with a sustained course of study in the range of subjects offered in the Social Justice minor. The programme enables students to proceed to professional training as lawyers in Ireland and elsewhere. Through combining Law with Social Justice, it also provides an even broader range of career-relevant knoweldge, skills and experience. 

We aim for students to be active, motivated, autonomous learners who understand the social, cultural and political dimensions of law and their role as global citizens, as a result of the additional perspectives gained through their study of Social Justice. Gradautes will obtain the academic basis for a successful career in law as well as more widely applicable knowledge and skills. 

We strive for a learning environment that encourages students to work individually or as part of a team, so they can develop their own and others' leadership, teamwork and communication skills. Small group teaching, online collaboration and practice-based learning are key elements of this. Students have the option of spending a semester at one of the School's partner universities.

To these ends the programme uses teaching, learning and assessment approaches such as tutorials, seminars, supervised academic writing, work placement and simulations of professional practice.

1 - demonstrate specialised, detailed knowledge and understanding of the legal systems of Ireland and of the European Union.
2 - demonstrate specialised, detailed knowledge and understanding of key debates in Social Justice.
3 - apply their knowledge and understanding in a manner that indicates a professional approach to their specific work or vocation in the field of law and/or social justice.
4 - gather and interpret the relevant data from a variety of sources, both legal and factual, to inform judgments on problems within the major branches of law and/or social justice.
5 - make their own judgments, including the capacity to reflect on relevant political, social, economic, historical, or ethical issues associated with law and/or social justice.
6 - communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions, considering the importance of legal and/or social justice arguments in public policy debates, in an accessible and intelligible manner to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
7 - realise those learning skills that are necessary for them to continue to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy.
8 - identify, in the field of legal scholarship, the relevant sources of law and commentary upon and analysis of it and to frame their own original legal arguments.
9 - identify, in the field of social justice scholarship, the relevant sources of law and commentary upon and analysis of it and to frame their own original arguments.

You can apply to spend third year at one of our partner universities including:

Australian National University, Canberra

University of New South Wales, Sydney

The University of Minnesota

The University of Miami

York University, Toronto

This degree will provide an ideal platform for careers in:

National and international NGOs as legal advisors or researchers

Public policy

Relevant graduate study programmes include:

International Human Rights

Criminology

Equality Studies

See the UCD Assessment website for further details, including worked examples of how degree award GPAs are calculated

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