Law (Graduate Entry) - LLB (Hons)

Law in Practice brings your legal education to life. Through real casework in our Law Clinic, pro bono placements (such as with Citizens Advice), private practice settings, or clinical arbitration, you will apply your knowledge to genuine legal problems. You will develop client care skills, ethical awareness, professional responsibility, and advanced problem-solving abilities. This transformative module allows you to graduate not only with legal knowledge, but with meaningful practical experience and professional confidence.

This module will examine the fast-moving field of employment law. You will engage with the relevant legal rules, and you will also analyse the wider significance of these rules in reflecting and in shaping society and the economy. This approach will facilitate a highly imaginative and contextual analysis of the law. The module is both very practical, in that employment law remains a relevant area of legal practice, and, on the other hand, is outward-looking and intensely topical, in that a day barely goes by without a major news story touching upon employment issues and how these are treated in law.

There are considerable overlaps and complementarities between this subject and others that you will already have studied at Level 4 in Contract Law and at Level 5 in Professional Skills. It has important links to Constitutional & Administrative Law at Level 5.

The module’s approach to learning, teaching and assessments applies practice-informed, problem solving techniques to realistic case-studies, enabling you to develop and your knowledge of employment law. You will also demonstrate a range of transferable skills specially selected because they are appropriate to this topical and fast-moving area of legal practice. You will develop your transferable skills, in research and communication using structured feedback by engaging with embedded opportunities set in the context of real-world, legal practice which will develop your confidence and boost your resilience.

Evidence, Proof and Argument aims to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the rules of criminal evidence and procedure in England and Wales. Your learning will revolve around a fictitious case studies, akin to a real-life case. The case study will provide you with a ‘practice-led’ experience in identifying and solving evidential issues that may arise in a criminal law trial, and by using authentic pre-trial documents, including witness statements, statements of proof and interview transcripts. This module builds on the knowledge and transferrable skills acquired in Criminal Justice Process and Procedure and Professional Skills at Level 4, and Criminal Justice and Human Right, Criminal Law and Professional Skills at Level 5.

This is an optional module. The rapid advancement of technology is disrupting all industries, including the legal sector. Businesses, large and small, are embracing technology as a means to improve their services, meeting clients’ needs and satisfaction.

The module aims to give you an insight into the application and operation of technology in different aspects of contemporary legal practice. Employers value digital fluency and technology skills so this module enhances compatible transferable skills.

The module builds on what you have learned in Level 4 Legal Systems by allowing you to realise how, and to what extent, technology can be applied for use in different legal disciplines and circumstances.

The module aims to familiarise you with advanced aspects of European Union law and policy, particularly in the areas relating to substantive EU law on topics such as free movement, citizen’s rights and fair competition.

The module builds upon what you have learned in Legal Systems and Constitutional and EU Law at Level 4, as these modules focus upon the EU’s legal system. This module allows you to deepen your understanding of the EU legal order by exploring substantive law areas in that legal system. This enables you to contextualise the operation of the system, and to reflect upon the relationship between the EU legal order and the UK legal system, as a third-party country to the EU.

This an optional module and aims to provide an opportunity to explore Immigration and Asylum Law in its social, historical and political context through real-life case studies. The module challenges you to develop your legal knowledge, as well as the transferable and soft skills that you must develop to be a successful solicitor, such as communication skills, empathy and critical thinking. The module builds on what you have learned in Professional Skills and Legal Systems at Level 4, and Professional Skills at Level 5.

The module will be taught with a mixture of lectures and workshops. You will critically evaluate legal, social and political implications of immigration and asylum law through real-life case studies and use storytelling as an experiential learning and teaching method. This method allows you to explore the experiences of migrants in the struggle of inequality, racial discrimination, and stigmatisation by engaging with their stories.

This is a Level 6 optional module, run in Semester 2. This module focuses on multiple elements of Crime and Punishment, combining elements of both Law and Criminology. The assessment for this module is a proposal document, linked to the presentation (self-recorded) at the end of the module. This assessment requires you to self-select a topic, write a question and present your topic.

You will have a wide range of topics to select for this assessment, as the module offers a broad range of topics. All topics selected are designed to be discursive, current and relevant to you. This builds on previous topics studied in Criminal Justice Process and Procedure, and Human Rights and Criminal Justice and topics include UK-based, as well as international work and comparisons.

This is an optional module that aims to equip you with the legal tools to address sustainability issues in society. Delivered over twelve weeks, the module involves research-based teaching and future-proof assessments that holistically addresses sustainability issues in line with the relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The module explores the way the legal system and institutions interpret sustainability from the lens of the environment, technology (artificial intelligence) and corporate governance. It begins with an introduction that develops understanding of foundational sustainability concepts and themes and the practical applications of law to fairly address sustainability issues. This underpins the rationale for sustainable development goals (SDGs) and why they are important to society. The module explores the topic of ‘sustainable justice’ by assessing whether legal systems, institutions, and the law itself are accessible, equitable and fit for purpose in a sustainably changing world. With a focus on ‘Access to Justice’, it considers how the law can contribute to equality, support strong and just institutions, and promote inclusive and future-proof legal frameworks.

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This is an optional module at Level 6 of the course which engages with the law and practice of the United Nations for resolving international crisis situations. You will consolidate your legal knowledge and transferable skills as the module builds on what you have learned in Legal Systems and Global Protections of Human Rights at Level 4.

This module will provide you with critical knowledge of international humanitarian law, and international human rights law. It presents an overview of the Charter of the United Nations and engages with the International Bill of Rights and associated international legislation. The module provides a simulated crisis and humanitarian disaster wherein you will engage in a Model United Nations’ Security Council. The crisis issues include: the necessity for a sanctions regime to stop the human rights violations of--genocide, torture, executions, famine, mass casualty medicine and the spread of disease, closure of schools, and border controls. To help solve the crisis, you will participate in the MUN through: (a) providing a UNSC speech; (b) engage in an alliance building activity with fellow member states, and; (c) draft a UNSC Resolution. The module will provide a critical examination of the historical and political backgrounds of the legal architecture of the UN, and how it works in practice.

Within the module, we aim to inspire students to consider the wider influences on the law through their learning by allowing students to explore key institutions, consequences, and comparisons. Students have a wide range of choices for their research, and many consider ideas of ethics, justice, and equality through the Law.

This is an optional module on the LLB. The module aims to provide you with an intellectually stimulating and academically rigorous education in the preparation and successful completion of a dissertation. The module will explore some of the key aspects involved in the preparation of a dissertation which will be approached through a critical examination of the current law relevant to the chosen topic and through an emphasis on how the subject of the dissertation operates in context.