LLB Law

Birkbeck’s Law LLB teaches you the foundational areas of law required by the legal profession and provides you with the key skills and knowledge to move towards successfully qualifying as a lawyer. You will gain highly transferable legal skills that are also valuable in other careers beyond the legal sector.The LLB Law at Birkbeck prepares you for a career in legal practice along with teaching you the transferable skills and specialist knowledge needed for a broad range of other professional pursuits.This LLB is an academically rigorous course that gives you the opportunity to study beyond the seven foundations of legal knowledge that are essential for professional legal qualification offering you a diverse range of option modules as well as the chance to graduate with a specialised pathway in human rights, commercial law, legal practice or environmental studies.It offers you extensive career support and strong links with the legal professions, including internships and clinical practice opportunities, scholarship schemes and the opportunity to join our award-winning mooting team.It prepares you at the academic stage for vocational qualification as a solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive.On this course you can build your study timetable to work around other commitments with pre-recorded lectures you can watch in your own time and a range of daytime and evening seminars to choose from, as well as the opportunity to attend some online.You will learn the seven foundations of legal knowledge essential for professional qualification: Contract Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Land Law, Tort Law, Trusts, Law of the European Union along with Legal Systems and Methods, and Jurisprudence.Upon graduating, you will be ready to:prepare for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Exam (SQE)apply for a place on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC), orpursue a range of other careers.Teaching on this course embraces a range of disciplinary approaches, develops your skills in critical thinking, and allows you to explore critical approaches to law in its political, social and historical contexts.You can also choose option modules to adapt the course to your interests or career aspirations, including modules related to the environment and environmental law to allow you to graduate with an LLB Law with Environmental Studies.