On our LLB English and French Laws, your first two years are spent at Essex, where you take those modules necessary to ensure that your course is a ‘qualifying’ law course for the purposes of practice in the UK (with the exception of law of the European Union, which is studied abroad). You also take French Law and Methodology in both years, which is taught exclusively in French by three full-time academics. Your third and fourth years are spent at one of our three partner institutions in France, where modules are taken to permit you to obtain the Licence en Droit and Maîtrise/Master 1.

If you wish to pursue a career in law, all our LLB courses provide exemption from the academic stage of training for the legal profession, which means you can proceed to the Bar Professional Training Course or the Legal Practice Course, offered by a range of institutions across the country. Our School maintains close, well-established links with the legal profession. Recent graduates of LLB English and French Law have progressed to take New York bar exams and become a legal consultant at the World Health Organisation, have become an associate at Jones Day, work at Lovells Law in Washington DC and are employed as an attorney at SBKG in Paris. Our other graduates have secured positions across the spectrum of the legal profession: from multi-national city firms, through to large national and regional firms, to local high street solicitors. Some of our other graduates have gone on to train for the Bar. Equally, there are opportunities for you to pursue a legal career in companies who have their own in-house legal teams or in the public sector. While many of our graduates do pursue a career in the law, there are some who choose to take the desirable key skills developed whilst studying law into different sectors. These sectors are wide ranging and include: business and commerce, accountancy, insurance, banking, central and local government, teaching, social work or the police force. We offer careers advice and support, alongside the Employability and Careers Centre, for our students and graduates. For example, we hold an annual law fair, attended by a wide variety of solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers, as well as vocational qualification providers. Additionally, careers talks are given on various topics including effective applications and life in the profession.