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Oxford University - BA Law degree - OPTIONAL PAPERS!!!

There are only two optional papers in Year 3!!! :frown:

There is no denying Oxford University Law department has the best optional paper choices here in the UK but they don't study 14 papers like Cambridge University Law department?!

However, if they studied:

Year 1: Roman Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Tort Law

Year 2: Administrative Law, Contract Law, Land Law, Trusts and European Union.

Year 3: I would choose 5 optional papers

Option 1: Taxation Law
Option 2: Employment Law
Option 3: Family Law
Option 4: Competition Law and Policy
Option 5: Human Rights Law

They already study 4 papers in Year 1, but do the exams early, and they do not count for the degree?!

Furthermore, they already do 5 papers in Year 2. So, they don't have to make any major changes; only minor changes are required.

With yearly exams, there would be no more Final Honour School extreme pressure and examining in just a matter of days between exams. Also, it would finally deter those applicants who want to have an 'easier' time at Oxford with no formal exams until the end of Year 3. Perhaps a decline in applicants would occur but ultimately, it would be better for the students to study a wider range of optional papers. 🙂

Perhaps my report will bring 'change' to Law at Oxford University!!! 😀 lol

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Reply 1

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by thegeek888
There are only two optional papers in Year 3!!! :frown:
There is no denying Oxford University Law department has the best optional paper choices here in the UK but they don't study 14 papers like Cambridge University Law department?!
However, if they studied:
Year 1: Roman Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Tort Law
Year 2: Administrative Law, Contract Law, Land Law, Trusts and European Union.
Year 3: I would choose 5 optional papers
Option 1: Taxation Law
Option 2: Employment Law
Option 3: Family Law
Option 4: Company Law
Option 5: Human Rights Law
They already study 4 papers in Year 1, but do the exams early, and they do not count for the degree?!
Furthermore, they already do 5 papers in Year 2. So, they don't have to make any major changes; only minor changes are required.
With yearly exams, there would be no more Final Honour School extreme pressure and examining in just a matter of days between exams. Also, it would finally deter those applicants who want to have an 'easier' time at Oxford with no formal exams until the end of Year 3. Perhaps a decline in applicants would occur but ultimately, it would be better for the students to study a wider range of optional papers. 🙂
Perhaps my report will bring 'change' to Law at Oxford University!!! 😀 lol

Sigh, not this one again. Have you even written your report? If you imagine that the University of Oxford is going to change its law degree on your recommendation, your delusions are getting worse. By the way, the Faculty of Law is currently reviewing the undergraduate course, as it does every so often, but It's not seeking help from Walter Mitty.

Reply 2

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by Stiffy Byng
Sigh, not this one again. Have you even written your report? If you imagine that the University of Oxford is going to change its law degree on your recommendation, your delusions are getting worse. By the way, the Faculty of Law is currently reviewing the undergraduate course, as it does every so often, but It's not seeking help from Walter Mitty.
Oxford University has the best choice of optional papers and the only papers they don't have is Islamic Law and Immigration Law, otherwise it is the best in the world!!! 🙂 I just wish they offered 5 optional papers in Year 3.

My report will have impact, because the 'spoken' word is my tool. lol 😀

PS: I have only compiled the papers offered by the top 50 Law departments in the UK. But I will be complete as I work on it from August til January slowly but surely. They won't read it until mid January 2026 eitherway.

Reply 3

So, you haven't written a report. I am not sure why you place inverted commas around the term spoken. Is your plan to ring someone up and tell them your masterplan? Why not try Lord Burrows, I'm sure he'll be delighted to hear from you.

By the way, your suggestion that there are no formal law exams at Oxford until year three is wrong. Oxford law students take Honour Moderations at the end of the second term of their first year. They take papers in Roman Law, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law. Those are, in Oxford parlance, public examinations. If you set yourself up as a reformer, it might be a good idea to understand the system you propose to reform.

Not for the first time, I urge you to obtain medical help. Your grandiosity and delusions are getting worse. You will as usual ignore this advice.

Reply 4

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by Stiffy Byng
So, you haven't written a report. I am not sure why you place inverted commas around the term spoken. Is your plan to ring someone up and tell them your masterplan? Why not try Lord Burrows, I'm sure he'll be delighted to hear from you.
By the way, your suggestion that there are no formal law exams at Oxford until year three is wrong. Oxford law students take Honour Moderations at the end of the second term of their first year. They take papers in Roman Law, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law. Those are, in Oxford parlance, public examinations. If you set yourself up as a reformer, it might be a good idea to understand the system you propose to reform.
Not for the first time, I urge you to obtain medical help. Your grandiosity and delusions are getting worse. You will as usual ignore this advice.
I've currently compiled the full list of papers offered by the top 50 UK Law departments and there are about 110 or so.

This is to show that Oxford can be the undisuputed king of Law optional papers and the best in the UK and better than Cambridge University Law department as well.

I am aware there are 3 papers in Year 1 i.e. Roman Law, Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.

They also start studying Tort Law at the end of Year 1. 🙂 I bet you did not know that?

Reply 5

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by thegeek888
I've currently compiled the full list of papers offered by the top 50 UK Law departments and there are about 110 or so.
This is to show that Oxford can be the undisuputed king of Law optional papers and the best in the UK and better than Cambridge University Law department as well.
I am aware there are 3 papers in Year 1 i.e. Roman Law, Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.
They also start studying Tort Law at the end of Year 1. 🙂 I bet you did not know that?

Yes, I know that. You lose your bet. If you were aware that Oxford law undergraduates take three papers in their first year, why did you make your fatuous claim that there are no formal papers before the third year, and your even more fatuous claim that people apply to Oxford to have an easy time?

Reply 6

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by Stiffy Byng
Yes, I know that. You lose your bet. If you were aware that Oxford law undergraduates take three papers in their first year, why did you make your fatuous claim that there are no formal papers before the third year, and your even more fatuous claim that people apply to Oxford to have an easy time?
I know many students love to have no exams in Year 2. That's why, so many Arts degrees get more applicants than Cambridge. Also, Oxford only asks for AAA and Cambridge A*AA or A*A*A.

Reply 7

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by Stiffy Byng
So what? Do you really think that students do nothing during year two?
If you consider Oxford isn't sufficiently brainy for you, why not switch your lifetime project of never applying to Oxford to a lifetime project of never applying to Cambridge, which, after all, used to be your project.
In fairness, shouldn't you give UCL, LSE etc a chance by never applying to them? Don't they deserve to have you never apply to them as well?
I've seen my eldest daughter in a 'vivid' dream: at an Oxford University college and she was studying Modern Lanugages. 🙂 Probably because I am pursuing French and Spanish at A-Level and also know some words in Arabic, Russian, Portuguese and will also learn Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Italian.

Reply 8

Have you tried: Lingo Pie? It is amazing for learning languages. 🙂

Reply 9

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by tinkerbello
Please wait until the tutors and admissions team have dealt with the 2026 applicants before submitting your report, they have lots to do before reforming their law degree to suit you.
I think Cambridge may require a shake up too - I hope you’re not going to let them off the hook !
I am glad you have managed to work and save for your copious amounts of study material for your A Levels - let’s hope you actually do them this time… unfortunately I think that you’ll be drawing your pension before results day ever materialises for you.
On a more serious note… instead of asking your parents for cash to fund your delusions, please ask them for their support in accompanying you to a good doctor, there are plenty of them in the NHS.
Yes of course I will also be telling Cambridge they don't offer the best papers in the world like Oxford do. That's why, I decided not to apply to Cambridge due to the papers they offer. They're not as great as Oxford. However, Cambridge do offer 14 papers in their degree and Oxford only 11. So, they may well take action to restructure their Year 2 and Year 3 papers and especially their half paper optional papers.

I am not going to waste anymore time. Because I will be in my early 40s by the time I start my degree. ☹️

I've already seen a Psychiatrist in the 2000s and the 2010s and there is nothing more they can do for me.

I am planning to go through all the videos on YouTube for BicenMaths, ExamSolutions, TLMaths, HindsMaths as well as Woody and a few others too. Not to mention UpLearn (97% of students achieve an A* or A grade). So, I should achieve A*A* in Maths and Further Maths. 😉

I will be posting far less in a few weeks i.e. end of August when I start studying much more.

I am also going to appear on the front cover and back cover of the Undergraduate Prospectus: for Year 2 and Year 3 whilst at one of Oxford or London: LSE, UCL, KCL or SOAS. 😀 lol

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Reply 10

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by thegeek888
YSo, they may well take action to restructure their Year 2 and Year 3 papers and especially their half paper optional papers.


They're not 'years': they're 'Parts'.

Interesting photo. I thought you were much, much older than that.

Reply 11

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by Reality Check
They're not 'years': they're 'Parts'.
Interesting photo. I thought you were much, much older than that.
I am in my late 30s now but I have a good diet and do weight lifting too. Also, I drink only Coke Zero, Diet Coke and Pepsi Max.

Reply 12

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by thegeek888
I have a good diet and do weight lifting too. Also, I drink only Coke Zero, Diet Coke and Pepsi Max.

No water?

Reply 13

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by Reality Check
No water?
Plenty of water. At least 1 litre a day and 2 litres when I mix the protein shakes. 🙂

Reply 14

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by bibachu
I often wonder how you have the time to sit and meticulously plan out a future that you have no intentions of working towards at nearly 40 years of age on a forum made really for teenagers.
Who said I had no intentions of working towards it? You made the assumption clearly so?! 😧

I multi-task.

Reply 15

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by bibachu
You are a bizarre specimen indeed. What fictitious date do you intend to apply to Oxford by now? Will admissions be graced with your application before 2099?
I will have applied during the 2020s for sure!!! 🙂

Reply 16

I just want to add for about 20 years I have yet to report the group of boys who tormented me during my GCSEs and A-Levels as well as sabtoaged my Sixth Form applications for scholarships at top private schools. Also, an application to Eton College as a King's Scholar (full fees paid) and several grammar schools. They even tried to get me expelled. ☹️

Some offences the main Disruptive Candidate 1 is guilty of is:

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm
Perverting the course of justice
Attempted theft of a mobile phone (multiple counts)
Making threats to kill (multiple counts)
Violent disorder (multiple counts)
Affray (multiple counts)

It is very similar to the Donnel Carty and Delano Brown case i.e. murder of Tom Rhys Pryce. Because, Disruptive Candidate 2 the brother of Disruptive Candidafe 1 also has sent his violent black friends to cause me harm or stab me and it has happend 4 times but I always escaped. ☹️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tom_ap_Rhys_Pryce

All the others have served 18 months to 6 years for fraud, drug dealing and attempted murder. ☹️ But Disruptive Candidate 1 is the last remaining boy who has gone into hiding since I exposed him on Facebook by sending 50 messages to friends we both knew in school. It worked as they supported me and warned them not to continue in their bad behaviour.
Ad hominems aside im not sure i really understand the issue here. If you don't like the Oxford course structure but do like the Cambridge course, just apply to Cambridge...

Even if Oxford were inclined to change anything things move at a glacial pace at these universities and i would be surprised to see any change within the decade - and given they also are very wrapped up in tradition and resistant to change to begin with odds are slim they would do anything even if it was an external regulator submitting this to them.

By way of example they have been talking about changing the structure of the classics mods course for over 5 years and the first cohort which may go through new format is the new incoming this fall. Likewise they only changed the AMES department and course names from "Oriental Studies" a few years ago...

Reply 18

One last attempt at advice:

You are obsessed with worldly success. But your life to date has been a failure. The only way to succeed is to junk the past, get off the internet, and start working towards real life achievements. Set realistic goals, don't dream of pie in the sky.

By endlessly stating that you "will" get four, five, six or however many A stars at A level, that you "will" go to Oxford, that you "will" become a member of several professions, and that you "will" establish many businesses and become rich, you achieve nothing.

Reply 19

Oxford arguably has the very 'finest' range of optional papers but they could offer a "Landlord and Tenant Law" paper perhaps? Especially with property being so prevalent in the news lately. 🙂 lol Also, Cambridge already offers this paper as an optional half paper.
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