Our LLB Law (including Year Abroad) provides you with a rigorous academic training in the discipline of law, as well as an opportunity to spend your third year abroad. We enable you to develop a critical awareness of the nature of law within its social, political and economic contexts, and encourage you to develop an approach to the discipline so that you can see each subject area as part of an integrated whole. We emphasise an awareness of the place of the law of England and Wales in its European and international frameworks. This allows you to develop critical, analytical, research, problem-solving, and transferable skills. You also acquire the ability to construct a logical argument and to communicate that argument clearly, both orally and in writing, as well as to consider, evaluate and respond to alternative and, possibly, conflicting points of view.

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. Our 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.