Law (LLB): 4-year, part-time

Birkbeck, University of London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 6,935 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

Birkbeck’s Law LLB teaches you the foundational areas of law required by the legal profession and provides you with the key skills and knowledge to move towards successfully qualifying as a lawyer. You will gain highly transferable legal skills that are also valuable in other professions beyond a legal career.

You will develop a sound knowledge and understanding of law across a range of foundational and specialist subjects. You will also learn to identify the political, economic, commercial, social and cultural factors that inform how we understand the law and the problems, tensions and contradictions within certain legal theories and doctrines.

Upon graduating, you will be ready to prepare for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE), apply for a place on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) or pursue a range of other careers.

Our Law LLB allows you to specialise in your studies by choosing to follow one of three pathways and graduate with:

LLB (Hons) in Law and Commercial Law
LLB (Hons) in Law and Human Rights
LLB (Hons) in Law and Legal Practice
These popular and dynamic areas of law, taught by scholars and expert practitioners, span a range of legal careers.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in the legal profession, human resources or local government. This degree can also be useful in becoming a barrister, solicitor, chartered legal executive or human resources officer.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

You will need to complete a written exercise in reasoning and analysis and attend an admissions event.

Awarding Body
University of London

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Equity
  • Systems
  • Property
  • Public
  • Land Law
  • Trusts
  • Administrative Law
  • Comparative Law
  • Human Rights
  • Property Law
  • IT Law
  • Consumer Law
  • Immigration Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Credit
  • LLB
  • International
  • Law
  • Writing
  • Part Time

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

You take a combination of compulsory and option modules to a total of 360 credits. The first two years introduce you to the essential concepts and methods of legal study, while the following two years build on that knowledge and allow you to study core subjects in depth. Each year allows for specialisation, with a range of option modules to choose from in Year 3 and Year 4, one of which may be a dissertation.

In Year 1, you take three compulsory 30-credit modules, to a total of 90 credits.

In Year 2, you take two compulsory 30-credit modules and choose option modules worth 30 credits, to a total of 90 credits.

In Year 3, you take two compulsory modules worth 15 and 30 credits, and choose option modules worth 45 credits, to a total of 90 credits.

In Year 4, you take two compulsory modules worth 15 and 30 credits, and choose option modules worth 45 credits, to a total of 90 credits.

YEAR 1 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Constitutional and Administrative Law
  • Law of Obligations I (Contract)
  • Legal Methods and Legal Systems
YEAR 2 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Criminal Law
  • Law of Obligations II (Tort)
YEAR 3 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Law of the European Union
  • Property Law I (Land Law)
YEAR 4 COMPULSORY MODULES
  • Legal Theory
  • Property Law II (Equity & Trusts)
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
  • Adult Relations
  • Banking and Monetary Law
  • Child Law
  • Competition Law
  • Consumer Law (Level 5)
  • Contemporary Issues in Islamic Law - UG Level 6
  • Cyberspace Law
  • Environmental Law (Level 5)
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Equity, Commerce and Society
  • Evidence
  • Foundations in Company Law
  • Housing, Justice and the Law (level 5)
  • Human Rights (level 5)
  • Immigration Law 1: Fundamentals of UK Law
  • Immigration Law 2: Advanced Concepts in Asylum Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Law of Armed Conflict (Level 6)
  • Introduction to Commercial Law
  • Introduction to Comparative Law
  • Labour Law
  • Law, History, and Political Violence
  • Mooting and Trial Skills
  • Political Economy, Philosophy and Law
  • Principles of Medical Law and Ethics
  • Private International Law
  • Public International Law and the Use of Force
  • Public Legal Education
  • Risk and Insurance Law
  • Space Law (Level 5)
  • Transformative Lawyering
Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

FEES
Part-time international students: £10710 pa

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