Program Overview

The LLB (Hons) in Law with European Legal Systems offers an exciting opportunity to combine a law degree with a broader educational and cultural experience through a year studying at another European law faculty.

This is a four-year programme with a year abroad in the third year. The programme can be tailored to your interests, including the study of French or Spanish.

If you do not have a foreign language, you can study at one of our partner law faculties across Europe where law modules are taught in English. These modules will allow you to develop your understanding of European and International Law. For this pathway, we currently have links with universities in Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Slovakia and Slovenia.

If you have previously studied French at A level (or equivalent), you can follow a pathway specialising in French. You will take French language tuition throughout the first and second year in preparation for the third year at one of our partner French law faculties. You can choose to study fully in French or combine law modules offered in English with some in French.

If you have previously studied Spanish at A Level (or equivalent), you can follow a pathway specialising in Spanish. You will take Spanish language tuition throughout the first and second year in preparation for the third year at one of our partner Spanish law faculties. You can choose to study fully in Spanish or combine law modules offered in English with some in Spanish.

You will start your degree by establishing the building blocks of legal knowledge. At the same time, you will begin cultivating important skills, such as research, writing and constructing a reasoned argument. The point of legal study is not simply to memorise the law, but to be able to engage with it skillfully. As such, many of the skills you will develop are transferrable and will be valuable to you within or beyond a career in law.

In your second and fourth years, you will tailor your degree by choosing modules that suit your interests. Our semesterised system means that modules are a semester long, not year long, allowing you to study more broadly.