Module: Advanced Property Law

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Advanced Property Law
Module Code	LG352 (ITS) / LAW1034 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	Law & Government
Module Co-ordinator	Kevin O'Sullivan
Module Teachers	Emma Mcevoy
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Repeat examination

Description

This module delivers the content of the substantive rules of real property law that were not covered in Foundations of Property Law within their modern and historical context. It will introduce important recent reforming measures aimed at updating and simplifying archaic elements of the Irish system of land law. The module also introduces to the role and functions generally attributed to property law and property rights within the liberal state.

Learning Outcomes

1. trace and appreciate the historical features and influences on Irish property law
2. identify the principles and doctrines relating to key topics within Irish property law
3. consider and interpret complex statutory provisions
4. apply the principles and rules to hypothetical factual scenarios
5. appreciate the significance of property law and property rights to the organisation of the liberal state

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	No Description
Independent Study	101	No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Covenants

Licences

Landlord and Tenant

Statutory Control of Tenancies

Introduction to Conveyancing

The Role of Property Rights in the Liberal State

The Public Dimension of Private Property

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	0%	Examination Weight	100%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Wylie: 0, Irish Land Law, 4th, Bloomsbury Professional,
Maddox: 0, Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009: A Commentary, Thomson Roundall,
Wylie: 2009, The Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009: Annotations and Commentary, Bloomsbury Professional,
O'Riordain: 2007, Consolidated Landlord and Tenant,
Ring and Cassidy: 2010, Landlord and Tenant Law - The Residential Sector, Thomson Roundhall,
Singer: 2000, Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property, Yale University Press,
Bottomley and Lim: 2007, Feminist Perspectives on Land Law, Routledge Cavendish,
Maclean (ed): 1999, Property and the Constitution, Hart,

Other Resources

None