This degree aims to enable students to specialise in subjects related to European Law, equipping them with comprehensive knowledge of Council of Europe and European Union policy, legislative and decision making processes, with a thematic focus on human rights, good governance, democracy and the rule of law. You will deepen and broaden your knowledge of law as an academic subject; acquiring a systematic understanding of legal processes, methods and concepts, of the social and political context in which legal processes take place, and of appropriate theoretical conceptions of law.

The programme is particularly attractive for students who seek employment opportunities in European Union and Council of Europe's institutions and agencies in Brussels, Strasbourg and elsewhere. It also expands career choices for law graduates or legal practitioners, and is of direct relevance for anyone wishing to gain advanced specialist knowledge of European law in order to work for national, European or international governmental or non-governmental bodies. Many have continued their higher education studies via a PhD. Students have access to the University's Employability Service and are offered guidance by the Programme Leader and other contributors to the programme, including guidance on how to enter and pass recruitment processes for national and international organisations. Students are invited to employability talks organised as part of the Clinical Legal Education programme by the Law and Politics Department as well as talks and events organised by the School of Law.