Law – (LL.B.)

The LLB is the largest undergraduate degree course offered by the Law School. It covers the core subjects of legal study and provides you with an extensive range of optional subjects to suit your particular interests and career plans. It is a qualifying law degree and thus provides exemption from the Common Professional Examination (CPE) which is otherwise required by students who wish to become barristers or solicitors.
In the first year
you study six course units, three in each semester. These will be Legal Method; Contract, Public Law I; Public Law II; Criminal Law and Tort.
In the second year
you also study six course units across the two semesters. Four of these will be compulsory: Equity and Trusts; Land Law; European Community Law and Jurisprudence. In addition, you will choose two further options.
The current list of options includes:
Human Rights; Company Law & Partnership; Criminal Justice; Employment Law; Mental Health Law; Principles of Law, Medicine and Ethics; Criminal Evidence; Family Law; Law of Freedom & Expression; Counter Terrorism; Gender and Law; Insurance Law; Youth Justice and Juvenile Delinquency; Comparative Law; Consumer Law; Sale & Supply of Goods; Environmental Law; Constitutional Reform; Intellectual Property Law; Public International Law; Medicine, Technology, Morals and the Law; Sentencing & Penal Policy; Law and Ethics in War and Warfare; Communications Law & Regulation; Education Law; Policing & Regulation and Drugs & Society.
In the third year
you study six units, to be chosen from the above list. It is also possible to submit a dissertation in place of one of these subjects. It may not always be possible to offer all optional subjects in any one year.