Law with Belgian Law

Programme Structure & Content

The LLB degree requires a student to gain at least 360 credits.

The courses in List A below, totalling 155 credits, are compulsory and a further 85 credits must be gained by taking an appropriate number of courses from List B.

For the LLB degree, a student must also gain at least another 120 credits by taking additional courses from List B or List C.

Students study the relevant language courses along with their normal law courses, and spend their third year studying abroad at Brussels University. Students must have passed all their compulsory first and second year Law courses and the relevant language courses to undertake the year abroad.

List A
Foundations of Private Law, Legal System and Method, Foundations of Public Law, Criminal Law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Contract, Non-Contractual Obligations (Delict), Legal Research and Writing, Property Law, Jurisprudence, and Legal Argument.

List B
Family Law (15), Commercial Law (15), Commercial Organisations (15), Conveyancing (20), Succession and Trusts (10), Evidence (20), Revenue Law (20), European Union Law - Institutions and Judicial System (10), Substantive European Law (10), Private International Law (15), Forensic Medicine 1 (10), Forensic Medicine 2 (10), Public International Law (15), Introduction to French Law (15), Introduction to German Law (15), Alternative Methods of Dispute Settlement (15), Competitive Mooting 1 (5), Competitive Mooting 2 (5), Introduction to European Legal Systems (5), Introduction to Spanish Law (5), and Employment Law (10).

List C
Any course offered in the University for any degree, e.g. Psychology, Philosophy, Politics (credits vary according to course chosen).

Teaching & Assessment

Assessment in non-Honours courses is generally by way of exams which take place at the end of the course.