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Bachelor of Law (with Honours) - LLB (Hons)
City Centre Campus (The Curzon Building)
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
Our flexible LLB degree in Law allows you to follow your own path in your second and final year, giving you the opportunity to focus more on criminal justice, business and commercial law, or social justice depending on your interests and career goals. We offer a diverse and practise-based LLB Law course, which enables you to take the first step to becoming a solicitor or barrister, as well as being a foundation for numerous other careers.
What's covered in this course?Employability has been embedded throughout the degree to support your career aspirations. At the heart of this is our Law Clinic, which offers you the ability to engage with a whole range of real-world briefs and clients in multiple areas of Law, including Immigration Law and Welfare Clinics, while you study. Placement modules and volunteer opportunities are also a key part of the course to expose you to the real world of the Law. The Law is wide and varied, and so is our course. While you will follow a set programme of study during your first year, you will have flexibility in your second and final year to pursue optional modules and customise your degree to align with your interests and future career ambitions. We support you by suggesting routes you could select from, including Criminal Justice, Commercial Law, and subjects commonly used by a ‘high street lawyer’, which can help you to focus on developing skills, knowledge and understanding in the areas most closely aligned to your career aspirations. Among these are a wide range of module options at Levels 5 and 6, allowing you to approach your degree with flexibility and personalisation. Creating an excellent learning experience is our priority. We concentrate on delivering outstanding teaching from staff who are experienced in either research or practice, so that you receive a ‘hands on’ approach to become confident, creative, resilient and responsible as you progress towards your preferred career. We also encourage you to engage in extracurricular activities to support your learning, with student societies, such as the highly successful Mooting & Debating Society. Alongside this there are opportunities to engage with the wider Birmingham legal community through our connections with the Birmingham Law Society, the largest regional law society in the UK. Our close links with the Citizens Advice Bureau and Support Through Court also offer you a wide range of choices to ensure that you are experiencing different forms of Law and practice, through our Law Clinic. This clinic allows you to volunteer with these and other organisations to begin applying your practical skills and gain legal experience.
Professional Placement YearThis course offers an optional professional placement year. This allows you to spend a whole year with an employer, following successful completion of your second year, and is a great way to find out more about your chosen career. Some students even return to the same employers after completing their studies. If you choose to pursue a placement year, you will need to find a suitable placement to complement your chosen area of study. You will be able to draw on the University’s extensive network of local, regional, and national employers, and the support of our Careers teams. If you are able to secure a placement, you can request to be transferred to the placement version of the course. Please note that fees are payable during your placement year, equivalent to 20% of the total full-time course fee for that year.
This module explores two key questions: ‘What is the law?’ and ‘How does the law work in England and Wales?’ It offers a vital foundation for your legal studies and is essential for anyone aiming to become a legal professional in England and Wales
This is a compulsory module that has been curated to examine fundamental concepts of criminal law. The module aims to provide you with a broad overview of the fundamental legal principles and concepts of criminal law. This overview will be conducted through the examination of criminal offences against the person and property along with general defences.
Legal Thinking and Study Skills is the module where you start to learn how to think like a lawyer and we teach you some of your basic study skills. To think like lawyer means being able to construct arguments. This will be a vital skill for the rest of your degree and life beyond. We will teach how to take an informed position on a controversial issue of injustice in society. We will do this by teaching you how to analyse famous cases on topics such as race and policing, exclusion and religion, mental health and criminal justice, environment and animals, and technology and bias.
Public Law is a core module which incorporates Constitutional, Administrative, Human Rights and European Union Law. The module is designed to deliver two of the seven foundations of legal knowledge required by the Bar Standards Board (Constitutional, Administrative and Human Rights Law; and EU law in context). The module will build on the knowledge of the UK legal system and relevant political institutions gained in Legal Systems in Semester 1.
This module provides students with an understanding of Contract Law by locating their study within a carefully designed employability framework. Embracing employability, Contract Law is explained through workshop activities that simulate a legal working environment where students are part of a legal team under the supervision of their tutor, acting as their potential employer.
his is a compulsory module at Level 4 Semester 2, which is essential for you to pass and complete if you aspire to become a barrister, as per the Bar Standards Board. This module has been designed to prepare you with the knowledge for some aspects of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam and thereby, demonstrates its practical importance for the legal working world.
This is a compulsory Level 5 module designed to help you develop and demonstrate a range of professional and employability-focused skills essential for academic success, graduate employment, and future legal practice. It serves as a key bridge between core legal knowledge and more advanced experiential learning modules such as Law in Practice at Level 6
This is a compulsory module which has been designed to align with aspects of the functioning legal knowledge of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam. The module builds on the transferable skills that you developed at Level 4 and will further these skills. It will also provide a foundation to Level 6 modules, in particular the core module, Equity & Trusts.
This module is designed to provide you with the opportunity to undertake a credit bearing, 40- week Professional Placement as an integral part of your Undergraduate Degree. The purpose of the Professional Placement is to improve your employability skills which will, through the placement experience, allow you to evidence your professional skills, attitudes and behaviours at the point of entry to the postgraduate job market. Furthermore, by completing the Professional Placement, you will be able to develop and enhance your understanding of the professional work environment, relevant to your chosen field of study, and reflect critically on your own professional skills development within the workplace.
This is the only compulsory module at Level 6. This module has been designed to align with aspects of the functioning legal knowledge of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam. The module aims to introduce the concept of equity and how it interacts with the law to create the trust by building on what you have already learned in Contract Law and Land Law at Levels 4 and 5 about equitable remedies and property ownership.
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