Program Overview

You will need a qualifying law degree and postgraduate training in order to qualify as a legal practitioner. All three of our LLB programmes provide the qualifying degree you need.

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 third years you will tailor your degree by choosing modules that suit your interests. Our semesterised system means that core modules are a semester long, not year long, allowing you to study the law more broadly through enhanced optional module provision.

You will also have many opportunities to build your skills, confidence and professional CV through extra-curricular activities and the Law School’s unique employability programme. You could, for example, complete an internship at a law firm, or you could ‘marshal’, spending a day on the bench with a judge during a trial. You could benefit from the alumni-mentoring scheme, where Law School graduates offer career mentoring to individual students. Our many events with law firms, barrister chambers and alumni create great opportunities for finding out about the options for when you graduate.  You could make a difference in the local community, working for the public good (pro bono). In less than five years, our students have recovered no less than £7 million for welfare benefits claimants wrongly denied payments. We have won the national LawWorks Best Partnership in Pro Bono award no fewer than four times. 

At the end of your degree, you'll obtain a qualifying law degree plus a wide range of transferable skills, making this course an attractive prospect for those intending to enter the legal profession.