Online education is growing into a more and more solid industry with every passing year, providing additional opportunities for students to get high-quality education that would otherwise be unavailable for them. Getting an online law degree isn’t as far-fetched as it might have been just a few years back – as this list clearly demonstrates.
1. Business 103: Introductory Business Law by Study.com
Business 103 is a self-paced course providing introductory instruction in business law in five major areas: contract law, property law, employment and labor law and torts. Without being too in-depth, it still manages to do a good job in explaining the basic concepts of business law, is delivered in an easy-to-understand form and provides a transferrable credit.
2. Diploma in Legal Studies by Alison.com
This course will teach you the most important concepts of legal studies: types of legal systems and how they came to be, types of legal procedures, the difference between civil and criminal law, basic characteristics of law, roles and relationships between different law-making bodies and so on. After completing it and passing course assessments, you will receive an official ALISON Diploma.
3. Crime, Justice and Society by FutureLearn
This course presents an overview of modern criminal justice system and its relations with crime and the main issues encountered by justice: why people commit crimes? Why do they stop doing so? What influences them? – and much more. Special attention is paid to the role of the state in criminal behavior regulation and the creation of safe society. The course will be especially useful for those planning to take an undergraduate or postgraduate course in criminal justice or criminology.
4. Privacy Rights and the Law by OpenUniversity
Just one of the free courses from one of the most popular sources of high-quality online learning, the OpenUniversity. Concentrating its attention on the concept of privacy and its relationship with the law, this course explains what privacy is and what the right to privacy encompasses, in which ways privacy may conflict with other human rights, teaches you how to use legal information to build up your own arguments on the subject, and tests your knowledge after completion.
5. International Law in Action: A Guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague
This course deals with Tribunal in The Hague and other international courts, as well as their functions and roles in modern society. It is especially interesting because it isn’t abstract in nature – it is based on particular cases and interviews with lawyers and judges who dealt with them. By the end of the course you will know how these courts operate, what are their potential influences on the support and promotion of international justice and whether they manage to do their job more often than not.
Of course, online learning can hardly replace old brick-and-mortar universities – but for those incapable of getting an education in one of them, these courses are godsend. Make use of this opportunity and enroll right now.