Law LLB Honours (M101)

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• LAW1110 Legal Institutions and Method
• LAW1120 Public Law
• LAW1121 Contract Law
• LAW1122 Land Law

• LAW2160 Criminal Law
• LAW2161 General Principles of Tort
• LAW2162 EU Law
• LAW2163 Equity

You have the opportunity, after Stage 2, to join our European Legal Studies programme and spend a year studying law at one of our European partner universities. This will extend your programme of study to four years. See the Course Overview for details.

Successful completion of this year is recognised in your degree title on graduation: Law (European Legal Studies) LLB Honours.

You take 120 credits of the following optional modules:

• LAW3003 Competition Law
• LAW3010 Company Law
• LAW3013 Criminology and Criminal Justice
• LAW3015 Environmental Law
• LAW3016 Evidence
• LAW3017 Public International Law
• LAW3020 Employment Law
• LAW3024 Medicine and the Law
• LAW3025 Private International Law
• LAW3029 Law and Literature
• LAW3030 Copyright Law
• LAW3031 Succession
• LAW3032 Legal Theory
• LAW3034 Human Rights Law
• LAW3035 Terrorism and Counter-terrorism Law
• LAW3036 Family Law
• LAW3038 Law and History
• LAW3040 US Constitutional Law
• LAW3041 Law, Gender and Sexuality
• LAW3043 Patent and Trade Mark Law
• LAW3044 Media Law
• LAW3098 Dissertation in Law

You may take a total of 40 credits in Stage 3 from other subjects offered by the University, with approval of the DPD.

It is a mistake to think of a law degree merely as a narrow route to a legal profession. On the contrary, a law degree opens up a wide range of possible careers.

Approximately 70 per cent of our graduates do indeed go on to qualify as solicitors or barristers. This requires one year’s further training in the form of either the Legal Practice Course for intending solicitors, or the Bar Professional Training Course for intending barristers plus, in both cases, professional on-the-job training.

Once qualified, a solicitor or barrister may choose to enter into either a private practice or employment with such entities as the civil service, large companies or local authorities. For those who do not choose one of the legal professions, a law degree is a particularly valuable qualification that is highly respected by a range of employers.

Employers know that a law graduate has acquired a variety of useful skills including a capacity for logical and critical thought, the accurate use of language, communication skills and the ability to make a persuasive argument. Thus, our graduates are to be found pursuing a wide variety of careers.

A significant number of our law graduates are recruited by accountancy firms. Others go into management, insurance, banking, teaching, public relations, the civil service and the armed forces.

Less well-travelled paths chosen by our graduates include the theatre, the representative of a farmers’ union and a commercial pilot.

Given the breadth of opportunities available to them, it is not surprising that unemployment among law graduates is among the lowest of all degree programmes.

Find out more about the career options for Law from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.