1. Introduction to English Common Law
2. What is Law?
3. What is Common Law?
4. Student Chat: What Should Law Do?
5. Forum Feedback
6. Question Feedback 1
7. Question Feedback 2
8. Question Feedback 3
9. Introduction to the Court System
10. Introduction to the Civil and Criminal Courts
11. The Civil Courts
12. The Criminal Courts
13. The Supreme Court and the European Courts
14. The Relationship of the Hierarchy of the Courts to the Doctrine of Precedent
15. Common Law and Equity
16. A Contemporary View of Common Law and Equity
17. Live Session
18. Introduction
19. Introduction to The Doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty
20. The Rise of Statute Law
21. Legal and Political Sovereignty
22. The European Union and Parliamentary Sovereignty
23. The Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty
24. The Contemporary Reality of Parliamentary Sovereignty Judges Parliament and the Human Rights Act
25. Introduction
26. Overview of Judicial Precedent
27. Judicial Precedent and the Role of the Judges
28. Modern Practice of the House of Lords
29. Decisions of the Court of Appeal
30. Decisions of the Court of Appeal Further Developments
31. Judicial Law Making
32. Judicial Law Making and the Human Rights Act
33. The Doctrine of Precedent and the European Court of Human Rights
34. Introduction to Statutes
35. Challenges of Statutory Interpretation
36. The Nature of Statutory Interpretation
37. The Presumptions of Statutory Interpretation
38. The Importance of Pepper v Hart
39. The Effect of Bulmer v Bollinger
40. New Methods of Interpretation Some Case Law
41. Purposive Interpretation Outside of the European Court
42. Statutory Interpretation and the Human Rights Act
43. Introduction to EU Laws
44. EU Treaties and ECHR
45. Links between the present and past of the EU
46. Foundational Values
47. The Institutions of the EU
48. EU Law
49. EU Convention of Human Rights
50. Rights Contained in the European Convention
51. Rights Contained within the European Convention

The Common Law of England and Wales is one of the major global legal traditions. In order to understand the common law, we need to deal with its history, and the development of its characteristic institutions like the jury, judge made law, parliamentary sovereignty and due process. We also need to ask some critical questions. What role does democracy play in the development of the common law? To what extent are human rights central to the modern common law? How does the common law of England and Wales relate to the law of the European Union? Answering these questions will give us insights into the current challenges the law faces and its possible futures.