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Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title Property Law 2
Module Code LAW1044 (ITS: LG379)
Faculty Law & Government School Humanities & Social Sciences
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
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


WorkloadFull time hours per semester
TypeHoursDescription
Lecture24No Description
Independent Study101No Description
Total Workload: 125
Section Breakdown
CRN20608Part of TermSemester 2
Coursework0%Examination Weight0%
Grade Scale40PASSPass Both ElementsY
Resit CategoryRC1Best MarkN
Module Co-ordinatorTanya Ní MhuirthileModule TeacherKevin O'Sullivan
Assessment Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Formal ExaminationEnd-of-Semester Final Examination100%End-of-Semester
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
RC1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module.
RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element.

* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None

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

Indicative Reading List

Books:
  • 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,


Articles:
None
Other Resources

None

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