Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is public law about?

    3. Key definitions

    4. Key legislation

    1. Overview of constitutional fundamentals and sources of the constitution

    2. What is a constitution?

    3. Sources of the UK constitution

    4. Core constitutional principles

    5. Constitutional conventions

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Constitutional fundamentals and sources of the constitution

    1. Overview of parliament and parliamentary sovereignty

    2. The role and functions of the UK Parliament

    3. Personnel, structures, and accountability

    4. The doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty

    5. Parliamentary privilege

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Parliament and parliamentary sovereignty

    1. Overview of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

    2. Devolution in the United Kingdom

    3. Scotland

    4. Wales

    5. Northern Ireland

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

    1. Overview of legitimacy, separation of powers, and the rule of law

    2. The Rule of Law

    3. The Separation of Powers

    4. The Executive

    5. The relationship between the branches of state

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Legitimacy, Rule of Law and Separation of Powers

    1. Overview of public order law

    2. English public order law

    3. Processions

    4. Assemblies

    5. The common law: breach of the peace

    6. PRACTISE MCQs: Public order law

Constitutional and administrative law

  • 60 lessons
  • 60 minutes of video content

Constitutional and administrative law, made simple

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Instructors

Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy.

He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

James Richardson

Co-founder, Senior Lawyer & Academic Author

James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

Connect with James on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jamrichardson

Why choose us?

In short, because our courses have been created and delivered by experienced lawyers and tutors, including lawyers who have trained and practiced at leading international law firms, managed legal teams, and authored and sold hundreds of thousands of legal study guides and books.

  • 15 on-demand academic and skills courses, consolidating the core functioning legal knowledge required by the SRA into easily-digestible, bite-sized chunks

  • Thousands of MCQs, each with detailed explanations of why the answers are correct or incorrect.

  • Hundreds of animated videos to explain the more complex concepts in simple, engaging ways

  • Sophisticated mind maps and impactful tables to bring topics to life, and make them easier to remember

  • Three tiers of mock exams, including topic-specific, course-specific, and SQE-wide MCQ assessments

  • Insider insights into how concepts work in practice, concise definitions, and hundreds of worked examples, all colour-coded to support memorisation

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