Our four-year LLB Law and Politics provides you with thorough training in the complementary disciplines of law and politics. You develop critical, reflective and analytical skills that are common to both disciplines. In addition to emphasising aspects common to both subjects, you explore the differences between them and the approaches taken within legal and political thought. You also develop a critical awareness of the nature of law within its social and political contexts.

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.