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mcgillianaire) wrote2008-10-13 12:15 pm
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Independent Research Essays
Part of our Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) assessment includes a 4000 word essay in an area not covered in the seven core modules. It's worth 10% of the overall mark and is not an original thesis. The point of the essay is to prepare us for the situation that commonly arises in practice wherein you have to quickly get to grips with an unfamiliar area of the law. We have fifteen essay title choices:
01) Corporate Law: Directors' Duties
02) Corporate Law: Minority Shareholders
03) Corporate Manslaughter
04) Employment Law: Unfair Dismissal
05) Environmental Law: Waste Management
06) EU Law: Public Undertakings & The Internal Market
07) Family Law: Financial Distribution of Assets On Divorce
08) Intellectual Property Law: Copyright
09) Intellectual Property Law: Trade Marks
10) Intellectual Property Law: Patents
11) Planning & Land Law: Regulation of Land Use - Town & Village Greens
12) Medical Law: Assisted Suicide
13) Tax Law: Fairness of the Taxation of Non-Domiciles
14) Public International Law: Legal Basis of State Recognition
15) The Law of Succession: Intestacy
As you can probably guess, I chose the Corporate Manslaughter title and this is my Essay Question:
"Despite a gestation period extending over thirteen years, the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is a disappointment. It is limited in its scope, restricted in its range of potential defendants and regressive to the extent that, like the discredited identification doctrine before it, it allows its focus to be deflected from systemic fault to
individual fault." -James Gobert (2008) 71(3) MLR 413-463
To what extent is the above quotation a true reflection of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007? Does the Act reinforce the justifications for corporate liability; or should it be accepted that in reality corporations cannot be convicted of crimes which were intended to address individual liability?
It should be an interesting five months working on this paper. I had also shortlisted two other titles, the Employment Law one about Unfair Dismissal and the Medical Law title about Assisted Suicide but I think I've settled on the Criminal Law title. Ideally, I would've liked to have written a paper on domestic Human Rights issues but I guess we'll be covering that in our Constitutional Law module so that wasn't an option. None of the other titles seemed interesting enough although not surprisingly, the most popular title in my school is the first one on Corporate Law and Directors' Duties (88 students) followed by Public International Law (56 students), then Medical Law (54 students) and Corporate Manslaughter (52 students). The least popular title is The Law of Succession with no student choosing it yet. Other unpopular titles include Planning & Land Law (9 students), Intellectual Property Law: Patents, EU Law and Environmental Law (11 students each).
01) Corporate Law: Directors' Duties
02) Corporate Law: Minority Shareholders
03) Corporate Manslaughter
04) Employment Law: Unfair Dismissal
05) Environmental Law: Waste Management
06) EU Law: Public Undertakings & The Internal Market
07) Family Law: Financial Distribution of Assets On Divorce
08) Intellectual Property Law: Copyright
09) Intellectual Property Law: Trade Marks
10) Intellectual Property Law: Patents
11) Planning & Land Law: Regulation of Land Use - Town & Village Greens
12) Medical Law: Assisted Suicide
13) Tax Law: Fairness of the Taxation of Non-Domiciles
14) Public International Law: Legal Basis of State Recognition
15) The Law of Succession: Intestacy
As you can probably guess, I chose the Corporate Manslaughter title and this is my Essay Question:
individual fault." -James Gobert (2008) 71(3) MLR 413-463
To what extent is the above quotation a true reflection of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007? Does the Act reinforce the justifications for corporate liability; or should it be accepted that in reality corporations cannot be convicted of crimes which were intended to address individual liability?
It should be an interesting five months working on this paper. I had also shortlisted two other titles, the Employment Law one about Unfair Dismissal and the Medical Law title about Assisted Suicide but I think I've settled on the Criminal Law title. Ideally, I would've liked to have written a paper on domestic Human Rights issues but I guess we'll be covering that in our Constitutional Law module so that wasn't an option. None of the other titles seemed interesting enough although not surprisingly, the most popular title in my school is the first one on Corporate Law and Directors' Duties (88 students) followed by Public International Law (56 students), then Medical Law (54 students) and Corporate Manslaughter (52 students). The least popular title is The Law of Succession with no student choosing it yet. Other unpopular titles include Planning & Land Law (9 students), Intellectual Property Law: Patents, EU Law and Environmental Law (11 students each).
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