Our four-year LLB Law and Philosophy offers you the opportunity to study a range of philosophical and legal topics. Your philosophy modules provide an introduction to the major topics of philosophy, while your legal modules analyse the major divisions of common law (contract, tort and crime) and the relation between the citizen and the state (public law). This joint course provides you with a thorough academic training in the two disciplines and develops your critical, analytical, and argumentative skills. This enables you to apply methods of philosophical analysis to legal issues and foster an awareness of the legal dimensions of moral and ethical issues. By the end of this course, you are equipped with highly developed skills of critical thought, analysis and argumentation.

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.