WEBVTT 00:00:02.864 --> 00:00:05.588 Hi there. I'm gonna talk to you now about the core 00:00:05.588 --> 00:00:09.456 areas of law that you have to study in a law degree, in an LLB. 00:00:09.456 --> 00:00:14.436 And these are decided on by the SRA, the people that look after solicitors known 00:00:14.436 --> 00:00:17.128 as the Solicitors Regulation Authority. 00:00:17.128 --> 00:00:22.134 And the BSP, the people that look after barristers, the Bar Standards Board. 00:00:22.134 --> 00:00:25.807 And they decided that anyone who still practice in England and Wales, 00:00:25.807 --> 00:00:30.176 they want them to have studied these core areas of law before they go into practice. 00:00:30.176 --> 00:00:32.714 And you do that in your law degree. 00:00:32.714 --> 00:00:37.043 So let's take a closer look at these different areas of law. 00:00:37.043 --> 00:00:39.688 So to start with, we've got tort law. 00:00:39.688 --> 00:00:43.312 And tort law is when someone does something wrong against you, but 00:00:43.312 --> 00:00:45.199 it's not necessarily criminal. 00:00:45.199 --> 00:00:47.434 So this might be you asking for compensation. 00:00:47.434 --> 00:00:50.586 And it could be for something like a car accident or 00:00:50.586 --> 00:00:52.695 an injury from a faulty product. 00:00:52.695 --> 00:00:54.381 And then we've got contract law. 00:00:54.381 --> 00:00:58.190 Contract law a lot of people are more familiar with because we have dealings of 00:00:58.190 --> 00:00:59.255 contracts already. 00:00:59.255 --> 00:01:03.120 It might be a mobile phone contract, or even just going into shops and 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:04.264 making purchases. 00:01:04.264 --> 00:01:08.128 This actually involves a little bit of contract law. 00:01:08.128 --> 00:01:12.184 Next, we've got land law, which is looking at the purchase, sale and 00:01:12.184 --> 00:01:13.412 rental of property. 00:01:13.412 --> 00:01:16.231 And what's interesting with this is you're applying 00:01:16.231 --> 00:01:20.592 some laws that are actually hundreds of years old, the very modern circumstances. 00:01:20.592 --> 00:01:23.234 The next area we'll look at is EU law, 00:01:23.234 --> 00:01:28.697 which is looking at the constitutional and administrative justice in the EU. 00:01:28.697 --> 00:01:32.574 And you might think that this is gonna disappear soon because of Brexit. 00:01:32.574 --> 00:01:37.299 But actually it's very likely to stay around even when we do leave the EU. 00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:41.269 And the only thing is it might change its name eventually to something like 00:01:41.269 --> 00:01:42.429 international law. 00:01:42.429 --> 00:01:45.804 But for it, it's gonna always be very important for 00:01:45.804 --> 00:01:50.726 us to have a relationship and an understanding with the EU's legal system. 00:01:50.726 --> 00:01:54.841 Next, we got equities in trust, and it ties in quite nicely with land and 00:01:54.841 --> 00:01:55.992 property lawyers. 00:01:55.992 --> 00:02:01.069 So trust are ways of handling and protecting things like assets, 00:02:01.069 --> 00:02:05.052 selling property, investments, land, money. 00:02:05.052 --> 00:02:07.057 Hey, we've got public law. 00:02:07.057 --> 00:02:11.847 So public law is the relationship between the government and its people. 00:02:11.847 --> 00:02:14.776 So should we ever see something that the government does, 00:02:14.776 --> 00:02:17.183 maybe it makes decision on a member of society. 00:02:17.183 --> 00:02:21.472 And we don't believe that's legal, that's where a public lawyer get involved. 00:02:21.472 --> 00:02:24.924 And finally we've got criminals, so criminals a lot more familiar. 00:02:24.924 --> 00:02:28.559 And but don't think about the big ticketed crime of murder always. 00:02:28.559 --> 00:02:32.982 Think about other things you've got a theft, you've got driving offenses, 00:02:32.982 --> 00:02:36.817 drug charges, white collar crimes like embezzlements and fraud. 00:02:36.817 --> 00:02:40.615 There's a lot more to crime than just what we see on TV. 00:02:40.615 --> 00:02:44.122 And finally then what you do with your law degree is you build around it, 00:02:44.122 --> 00:02:45.416 your elective subjects. 00:02:45.416 --> 00:02:48.697 And that really helps direct you along to the career path and 00:02:48.697 --> 00:02:50.741 the interests that you really have. 00:02:50.741 --> 00:02:55.311 So for example, some of electives that we have at the University of law 00:02:55.311 --> 00:02:59.116 are employment, family law, human rights, trade law. 00:02:59.116 --> 00:03:03.041 And you can see that these will take you in certain directions to help support you 00:03:03.041 --> 00:03:06.753 become a different type of lawyer than someone else.