Organisations of all sizes need employees with a broad understanding of corporate and other laws, as well as people with good corporate awareness, initiative and communication skills. This pathway will give you the legal background you need to get ahead in business, as well as equipping you with analytical, presentation, research, written and project management skills, all of which are highly transferable.
We offer six exciting law pathways, one providing a general legal education, the LLB and others allowing you to specialise in a specific legal field; Business Law, Entertainment Law, Law with Economics, Law & Taxation and Law with Politics.
We know that it’s difficult to decide which area of law you’d like to focus on when you’re just setting out on your training, which is why all of our law pathways share a common first year. This means that you don’t need to make any major decisions about which branch of law you’d like to specialise in until you’ve spent a year studying the subject area and have a better grasp of what each field entails. You’ll be encouraged to investigate areas that interest you, as well as to gain as much experience as possible by attending court and undertaking work placements during your course.
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Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB
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Constitutional Law
Public Law
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Course programme
Course details
On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.
Year 1
Core units
Law of the European Union (EU): EU Law is an important legal source for domestic systems in the EU and forms a vital part of the English legal system. You'll study the relationship between these and apply your knowledge to a range of situations.
Contract Law: A foundation law subject you'll need for academic and professional legal qualifications. You'll be expected to explain the functional role of the law in the English Legal System and evaluate the impact of legislative controls on freedom of contract.
Constitutional Law: An introduction to UK constitutional and administrative law. You'll learn to understand and share your knowledge of constitutional law and judicial review, and apply it to a range of legal situations.
Criminal Law: An academically challenging look at criminal law and how it affects corporations and individuals. You'll learn to apply the criminal law to a wide range of situations.
Legal Skills & Systems: This unit looks at the structures in the English Legal System. You'll be introduced to legal method, legal reasoning, legal research and legal writing.
Public Law Studies: There are two aims of this unit: to develop your knowledge of public law and your legal research and academic writing skills. The term “public law” has a broad definition, and this unit builds on what you learnt in the Constitutional Law unit and discusses other areas of public law, including human rights and administrative law.
Year 2
Core units
Equity & the Law of Trusts: Equity serves is a dynamic source of private rights, obligations and remedies, and it eases the harshness of common law. Here, you'll technically and academically challenge equity law and trusts and apply equitable principles to a range of situations.
Law of Torts: The Law of Torts is an area of law that's grown considerably in the last few decades. Here, you'll academically challenge the issues in the Law of Torts and apply Tort Law principles to a range of situations.
Land Law: The private law relating to rights and interests in land, corporeal and incorporeal. You'll explore the rights and interests in land enforced in English law and understanding how they're created and protected.
Legal Skills 2: You'll pick up legal skills in research, advocacy, negotiation and letter drafting. You'll need these for your work placement in Year 3 and your dissertation research in Year 4.
Commercial Law and Transactions 1: A technically and academically challenging look at the issues in international sale and commercial law. You'll learn how to apply the fundamental principles of commercial law, including passage of property, transfer of ownership and principle of agency.
Public International Law: You'll be encouraged to review the law in light of social, current and political influences, and learn about domestic and international current developments.
Year 3
You'll complete a minimum 30-week work placement in the UK or overseas, and get the opportunity to experience legal practice and make contacts for the future. If your placement meets the necessary criteria it can count towards 20 weeks of your training contract after graduation.
You may take a study abroad placement for up to the equivalent of one semester (6 months) which will count towards the 30 weeks required for the placement and then complete the remainder of the 30 weeks placement working in industry.
Year 4
Core units
Dissertation: Writing a dissertation gives you the opportunity to research a topic relevant to law. You'll develop critical thinking skills and evaluate new and existing research, and develop your conceptual understanding of law.
Law of International Trade: International commercial law is the regulation of the sale and exportation of goods by sea. This allows for an in-depth exposure to international sale contracts and the contracts they're linked with, including carriage, insurance and payment contracts
Corporate Law & Governance: The corporate form is important in business enterprise and the private and public company limited by shares. It's also adopted by other forms of institution, such as charities and non-profit-making bodies. Corporate Law is one meriting study area of a Law Degree.
Employment Law: One of the most important areas of law in the UK. You'll take a technically and academically challenging look at issues in employment law faced by employers and employees, and learn to apply the principles of employment law to a range of situations.
Option units (choose one):
Intellectual Property Law: You'll learn about copyright, trademarks, patents and design, and understand how these are protected and exploited.
Indirect Tax: For this unit, you'll evaluate how VAT is applied to business sectors in the UK and how it works in the EU and overseas jurisdictions of cross-border trade.
International Taxation: A technically and academically challenging look at of the issues in international taxation faced by multinational corporations and individuals. You'll learn how to apply the key principles of international taxation to a range of situations.
Law of Personal Tax 2: You'll evaluate opportunities for easing the impact of personal taxation on the decisions of individuals. You'll appreciate how tax planning decisions are made in a professional setting.
Advanced Criminal Law: This unit goes beyond what you previously learnt about criminal law. You'll be encouraged to review the law in light of social, corporate and political influences, and understand developments in national and international criminal law.
Media and Entertainment Law: Topics ranging from defamation to privacy, contempt of court, sexual offences, sports law and TV formats amongst others will be explored in this unit. This unit benefits from the insight of two experts in the field providing a theoretical and practical insight into the discipline.
Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year.
Scheduled learning and teaching activities
Contact hours
The hours below give an indication of how you can expect to spend your time during each year of this course. You will learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and practical sessions. Your independent learning could include reading books and journal articles, working on group projects, preparing presentations, conducting library research and writing your assignments.
Year 1 – 16% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Learning and teaching: 190 hours
Independent learning: 1010 hours
Non-assessed learning and teaching: 19 hours
Year 2 – 18% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Learning and teaching: 206 hours
Independent learning: 994 hours
Non-assessed learning and teaching: 11 hours
Year 3 (placement year) - 0% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Year 4 - 13% of your time will be spent in timetabled learning & teaching activities
Learning and teaching: 157 hours
Independent learning: 1043 hours
Non-assessed learning and teaching: 2 hours
39% of the course is assessed by coursework
Year 1: 53%
Year 2: 45%
Year 3: 0% (placement year)
Year 3: 57%
Throughout the course you will be assessed by coursework culminating in your final year research project, but you will also undertake group work and written exams.
Programme specification
Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used.
View the programme specification for LLB (Hons) Business Law.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.
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