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Law LLB Honours UCAS Code: M101 (3 or 4 years)Newcastle University Law School

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Our LLB Honours degree provides a thorough understanding of English law and is recognised as a qualifying law degree for the purposes of legal professional qualification. This exempts you from the academic stage of training and enables you to go straight to the Legal Practice Course (for solicitors) or the Bar Professional Training Course (for barristers).

Alongside the three-year LLB, we also offer a four-year Law (European Legal Studies) LLB programme. Joining this programme allows you to spend an intercalating year at one of the Law School’s partner universities in Europe, before returning to Newcastle for your fourth and final year of study. 

This means that you will not only graduate with a fully-qualifying degree, but will also be able to draw on the experiences and skills developed during your year abroad. This will open new horizons for you on the job market.

Students who wish to take advantage of this European study opportunity must apply during their first year on the LLB; there is no separate application process via UCAS.

We also offer the subjects required for entry by the Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Northern Ireland.

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• LAW1010 Legal Institutions and Method
• LAW1020 Public Law
• LAW1021 Contract Law
• LAW1022 Land Law  

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

• LAW2060 Criminal Law
• LAW2061 General Principles of Tort
• LAW2062 EU Law
• LAW2063 Equity

European Legal Studies (optional)

You have the opportunity, after Stage 2, to join our European Legal Studies LLB programme and spend a year studying law at one of our European partner universities. This will extend your programme of study to four years.

We currently have links with universities in Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain. All of our partner institutions teach in English so you do not need foreign language skills to take advantage of this opportunity.

Stage 3

Optional modules

You take 120 credits of the following optional modules:

• LAW3003 Competition Law
  
• LAW3010 Company Law
  
• LAW3030 Copyright Law
  
• LAW3013 Criminology and Criminal Justice
  
• LAW3015 Environmental Law
  
• LAW3016 Evidence
  
• LAW3017 Public International Law
  
• LAW3024 Medicine and the Law
  
• LAW3027 Research Topic in Law
  
• LAW3029 Law and Literature
  
• LAW3031 Succession
  
• LAW3032 Legal Theory
  
• LAW3034 Human Rights Law
  
• LAW3035 Terrorism and Counter-terrorism Law
  
• LAW3036 Family Law
  
• LAW3098 Dissertation in Law

Up to a third of your modules at Stage 3 may be from other subjects offered by the University.

Please note

The modules listed here are those currently being taught in this academic year and may vary for your year of entry