LL.B. Law & History

You will be introduced to general legal principles and legal techniques and will study compulsory courses including Scottish Legal System, Critical Legal Thinking, Contract Law, Evidence and Criminal Law.

Your courses will include Property Law, Jurisprudence and European Union Law. Students on the Graduate Entry LLB will complete their studies at the end of the second year.

You will have the opportunity to specialise in further law subjects, chosen from a wide range of courses, including Commercial Law, International Law, Property Law, Family Law and Criminology. All students will also take a legal skills course: Advanced Legal Methods.

If you are studying law with a language you will spend your third year abroad. Year 3 is the final stage of the LLB (Ordinary) programme.

You choose further courses to expand your specialist knowledge and write a dissertation. This will help you develop your legal research and writing skills. This is the final year of the LLB (Hons) programme.

If you are planning to enter the Scottish legal profession, you will need to complete the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice after you graduate. You can apply for the Diploma during the final year of the LLB programme.

Courses include:

• Jurisprudence
• Public Law and Individual Rights
• Evidence and Criminal Law
• Property Law (Ordinary)
• Succession and Trust Law
• International Private Law Ordinary
• Revenue Law
• Commercial Law
• Company Law
• Contract
• Criminology
• European Institutions
• Family Law
• Gender and Justice
• Trusts and Succession Law
• Constitutional Law
• EU Law Honours
• Property Law
• Human Rights
• International Law A: The Individual and International Law
• Criminal Law A: Harm, Offence and Criminalisation
• Media Law
• European Union Regulation of Culture and the Mass Media
• International Private Law Honours
• International Law and Global Affairs
• Criminal Law B: Doctrine and Theory
• Comparative Law
• Law, Democracy and Citizenship
• Black Nationalism in America
• Cuba since 1895: the Pursuit of Independence
• Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
• History in Practice
• History in Theory
• Italy and the Mediterranean from Constantine to the Crusades
• Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952
• Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History
• Medicine, Science and Politics at the Courts of Early Modern Europe
• Methodology of History 1
• Post-Colonial South Asia
• Restoration Spain, 1875-1923
• Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921
• The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860
• The Scottish Lowlands: Archaeology and Landscape before the Normans
• Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640
• Edinburgh since 1750
• Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
• Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830
• Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
• The U.S. Economy since 1918
• Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949
• Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
• Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970