Law, LLB (Hons)

Our accredited LLB Law degree delivers essential legal and academic skills through core subjects and a wide array of elective modules. It builds a strong foundation in law while enhancing commercial awareness via pro bono clinics, volunteering, and mooting opportunities. This program serves as the first stage of professional training for aspiring barristers and solicitors, fostering transferable skills such as research, critical thinking, communication, and professionalism. Students access dedicated facilities like the Law Library and moot courtroom, and can specialize in areas like Commercial Law, International Law, Human Rights, or Professional Practice by the end of their second year.The three-year curriculum covers core legal knowledge in Year 1, including Constitutional Law and Contract Law, and continues with EU Law, Land Law, and Trusts in Year 2. Year 3 focuses on electives for specialization. Assessment methods include written exams, coursework, mooting, and portfolios, with formative feedback provided throughout. Approximately, Year 1 assessments are 41% exams and 59% coursework, Year 2 is 80% exams and 20% coursework, and Year 3 mirrors Year 1's balance.

This three-year LLB Honours degree covers all of the core foundations of legal knowledge required by the Bar Standards Board for a qualifying law degree. Year 1 - Begin studying the core legal subjects common to all undergraduate law degrees.

• Debates in the English Legal System (15 credits)

• Constitutional Law (15 credits)

• Foundations of Contract Law (15 credits)

• Foundations of Criminal Law (15 credits)

• Foundations of Tort Law (15 credits)

• Contract Law and Practice (15 credits)

• Administrative law and Human Rights (15 credits)

• The City Law Student: Legal Reading, Writing and Research for Degree, Careers and Employability (15 credits)

Year 2 - Study the remaining foundations of legal knowledge:

• Foundations of EU Law - Core module (15 credits)

• Foundations of Land Law - Core module (15 credits)

• Foundations of Trusts Law - Core module (15 credits)

Choose five modules from a wide range of elective subjects (subject to change each year):

• Legal Career Enhancement and Employability Skills (15 credits)

• Small Venture and Social Enterprise Law (15 credits)

• Commercial Awareness and Risk (15 credits)

• Mediation (15 credits)

• Politics and Law (15 credits)

• Legal Design (15 credits)

• Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility (15 credits)

• Further Issues in Criminal Law (15 credits)

• Further Issues in Tort Law (15 credits)

• The UK and The European Union (15 credits)

• Company Law (15 credits)

• Family Law (15 credits)

• Foundations of Public International Law (15 credits)

• Immigration Law (15 credits)

• Intellectual Property Law (15 credits)

• Introduction to Islamic Law (15 credits)

• Law relating to Domestic Banking (15 credits)

• Law, Rights and Context (15 credits)

• Regulation of Leisure Industries (15 credits)

• Contemporary issues in EU Constitutional law (15 credits)

• Micro-Placement (15 credits)

Year 3 - Specialise in your chosen area of the law with eight elective modules from a wide range of subjects (subject to change each year).

• Further Issues in Equity (15 credits)

• Further Issues in Land law (15 credits)

• Law of the European Convention of Human Rights (15 credits)

• EU Law and the Global Legal Order (15 credits)

• Human Rights Law in the UK (15 credits)

• International Human Rights Law (15 credits)

• Law of Domestic Sales (15 credits)

• Cross Border Commercial Law (15 credits)

• Global Issues in Corporate Law (15 credits)

• International Banking Law (15 credits)

• Media Law (15 credits)

• Competition Law (15 credits)

• Maritime Law (15 credits)

• Advanced Issues in International Law (15 credits)

• International Economic Law (15 credits)

• International Criminal Law (15 credits)

• International Commercial Arbitration (15 credits)

• Discrimination Law (15 credits)

• Labour Law (15 credits)

• Criminal Justice (15 credits)

• Medical Law and Bioethics (15 credits)

• Forensic Science and the Legal Process (15 credits)

• Law of Evidence - The Evidential Implications of Criminal Investigation (15 credits)

• Law of Evidence: Safeguarding Reliability and Protecting Witnesses (15 credits)

• Legal Skills (15 credits)

• Introduction to the Solicitor’s Professional Qualification (15 credits)

• Canadian Constitutional Law – Foundational Principles (15 credits)

• The Canadian Charter of Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (15 credits)

• Canadian Law of Business Organisations (15 credits)

• Constitutional Law of the USA – Foundational Principles (15 credits)

• Constitutional Law of the USA – Modern Controversies (15 credits)

• Child Law (15 credits)

• Justice Law and History (15 credits)

• Micro-Placement (15 credits)

• Comparative Constitutional Law (15 credits)

• International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law

• Law, Race and Colonialism (15 credits)

• Dissertation (30 credits)

• Movement of Products and People into and within the EU (15 credits)

• Industry Projects (15 credits)

- Pro bono (15 credits)