Develop your legal knowledge and skills in a highly practical way, and experience life in a different culture and within a different legal system. Benefit from our highly practical approach to teaching and develop your legal knowledge and skills through problem-based learning projects, commercial awareness training and work-experience. You will also take part in client interviewing, negotiation and mooting competitions with work placements offered as prizes. Great importance is placed on work experience with ring-fenced opportunities for Reading students. You will have the chance to work with local charities and other organisations and further develop your practical legal skills through voluntary pro bono work. In addition, you will also have the option to qualify as a Gateway Assessor for the Citizens Advice Bureau. We host one of the largest pro bono programmes in the country, working with local charities and organisations, including Age Concern, Anti-Slavery International, Berkshire Witness Service, Reading Young Offenders Team, Streetlaw and Thames Valley Police. The first two years of this degree are identical to the LLB Law but you will spend your third year at a European partner university. Past students have studied with our partners in places such as Geneva University in Switzerland, Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Uppsala University in Sweden and Vienna University in Austria. Depending on your language skills you will be taught either in the native language or in English. This opportunity will provide you with a deeper understanding of an additional legal system and will benefit anyone wishing to work in European business, human rights or for one of the many government organisations across Europe. In your final year you can focus on your interests and select from a wide range of modules. Popular options are "Company law", "Intellectual property", "Revenue law", "Family law" and "Criminology".

University of Reading Law graduates are in high demand and are very employable. As well as providing you with the first qualification for entry into the legal profession this course gives you strong analytical, critical and persuasive skills as well as the ability to express yourself well both on paper and in person. The language and life skills developed whilst studying in Europe, together with your knowledge and experience of foreign legal systems will make you highly desirable to European and international government and non-government organisations. Around half of our graduates take their professional exams and go on to practice law. Past students who have continued in the legal profession have gone on to work for firms such as Allen & Overy, Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Boyes Turner. Others have become barristers, work for the Crown Prosecution Services, in the music and entertainment industries or for large accountancy firms such as PwC.