September, 2010
Dear University of Exeter Cornwall Campus Law Student
Welcome! We look forward to your arrival at the Cornwall Campus for Welcome Week and
the start of the new academic year.
As you will see from the enclosure, there is a Welcome Week timetable advising you of
activities throughout the week. Please ensure that you attend all of the scheduled sessions
as they all provide information of great use in preparation for your degree programme.
Monday 27 September has been left free to create an opportunity for you to settle in and
familiarise yourself with your new location. Campus staff will be available to answer any
queries you may have. As well as attending the Unicard collection session, various talks on
student services, Library and IT and the teamworking session, please be sure to attend the
Law Programme Welcome Talk on Tuesday 28th September at 9am in the Cinema, Media
Centre (please check at Main Reception where this is). At the Law Programme talk we
intend to give some background to the way the programme will be delivered and to practical
matters such as timetables, Personal Tutors, seminar groups and so on. Some parts of the
induction process will involve attendance at a brief group seminar session, followed by
completion of a group talk – all students are expected to participate fully in these initial
sessions.
Since lectures start the following week, this information will be vital to your ability to begin
your studies in earnest. The timetable of lectures and seminar classes will be given to you
when you arrive.
Once you have registered you will be able to link to your ‘Student Records System’ (SRS)
where you can obtain various student specific information. You must ensure all the relevant
information is correct including your contact details. It is imperative that these details are
kept up to date all times including your address and telephone number as appropriate, the
link is https://srs.exeter.ac.uk/.
The main Falmouth bookshop [The Falmouth Bookseller] has been provided with a booklist
covering the subjects for the first academic year in Law; Waterstones in Truro has also been
informed and both have acquired stock accordingly. The Falmouth bookshop tells us that
new stock can be acquired on a next-day basis. The lecturers recommend that you wait for
your initial lectures to take place before purchasing books, as some perspectives and the
comparative merits of the books may be given and therefore we have elected not to attach
the booklist at this stage although the choice of books is also a matter for your judgement,
some books may emerge more clearly as useful texts as a result of discussion on your
arrival. It is often the case that for each module, one book in particular is recommended.
The first year Introduction to Law module will make such recommendations and as an early
guide you may wish to purchase Finch and Fafinski, Legal Skills, OUP, 2nd edn 2009. You
may also wish to consider buying or initially borrowing one of the following:
The first year Introduction to law module will make several recommendations on books which
you will not need until the course starts. However in preparation for the start of the course
you may wish to consider borrowing:
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Finch and Fafinski, Legal Skills, OUP, 2nd edn 2009.
Wilson and Kenny, The Law Student's Handbook, OUP, 2009
Holland and Web, Learning Legal Rules, OUP, 6th ed, 2006 [for an advanced
read]
Strong, How to Write Law Essays and Exams, OUP, 2nd ed, 2006
In the meantime we strongly recommend that you read a quality daily newspaper such as
The Guardian or The Independent, to support your knowledge of current affairs and the
Times Law Weekly Law report to keep you up to date with legal developments. Those keen
to acquire an extensive coverage of international events may also wish to read the Financial
Times.
If you have any queries about the welcome week programme or the University of Exeter in
general, the following online resources may be of help:
School of Law website (including staff contact details): http://www.law.ex.ac.uk/
Information for new students: http://www.ex.ac.uk/cornwall/studying/new_students/
FXU – Student’s Union website: http://www.fxu.org.uk/
Map of the campus is found at: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall.
Administrative staff will be available to answer any queries from the morning of Monday 28th
September and academic staff in Law will be available to answer enquiries on the afternoon
of Tuesday 29th September. For general queries please email lawcornwall@exeter.ac.uk.
For your information, academic staff in Law have offices located on the first floor of the Peter
Lanyon Building, in rooms A 1.46- A 1.50 and A 1.67- A 1.62 and the Law School
Departmental Administrator will be on hand in the Law Student Services Office, room A140
email: i.christophers@exeter.ac.uk
We hope your move to the campus takes place smoothly and we all look forward to
welcoming you in person soon!
Professor Melanie Williams
Professor in Law
University of Exeter Cornwall Campus
Penryn
Cornwall
TR10 9EZ