LLB Law (M100)

• Programme description
• Course outline
• Career opportunities
• Assessment
• Entry requirements
• Fees
• Further information
• Frequently Asked Questions

M100 LLB/Law (3 years) 

LLB Programme description

The standard LLB is a three-year programme. It includes compulsory modules in the first and second year covering property, trusts, contract, criminal law, tort, constitutional and administrative law and EU law. These satisfy professional requirements as to foundations of legal knowledge and skills. From these strong foundations, you are in a good position to choose options for your second and third years.

A notable feature of the Queen Mary law degree programmes is the wide range of options available, almost all of them taught by leading researchers in those subjects.

In the final year you may replace a taught module with an option in legal research and writing, which involves supervised research in a topic of your choosing leading to a 15,000-word dissertation. Students are required to take 120 credits each year. Each full module is 30 credits and half modules are 15 credits.

LLB Programme outline

Year one

• Induction programme and legal thinking and writing (not credit weighted)
• Public Law LAW001
• Common Law I - Law of Contract
• Law of Property I - Land Law
• Criminal Law

Year two

• Law of the European Union (half module)
• Administrative Law (half module)
• Common Law II - Law of Torts
• Law of Property II - Equity and Trusts
• Plus 30 credits of option modules

Year three

• Jurisprudence
• Plus 90 credits of option modules 
  
  

Option modules include:

• Commercial and Consumer Law (final year only)
• Company Law (final year only)
• Comparative Law: Asian and African Legal Systems
• Competition Law . Criminology (also available as a half-module)
• Dissertation
• Cyberspace Law
• EU Justice and Home Affairs
• European Comparative Law (also available as a half module)
• Family Law
• Intellectual Property
• International Commercial Transactions
• International Environmental Law
• Law and Globalisation
• Law of Evidence
• Media Law (final year only)
• Medical Negligence Law (final year only)
• Origins of Western Legal Tradition
• Public International Law . Revenue Law
• Sentencing and Penal Policy (also available as a half-module)
• United Kingdom Human Rights
• Use of Force in International law

Half-modules include:

• European Legal Systems
• Comparative Law and European Integration
• Law and Literature: The Foundations of Law
• Law and Literature: Justice in Crisis
• Penal Policy
• Sentencing

Not all of the modules listed may run each academic year.

Career opportunities

Most law graduates enter legal practice, in the UK or overseas. Queen Mary graduates who wish to become solicitors, are guaranteed a place at the College of Law to study for the professional examinations. We have close links with the profession, including our own graduates and there is full support for those seeking training contracts to become solicitors, and for those seeking places at the Bar. But equally a law degree indicates skills that can lead into commerce, finance, industry or government.

Assessment

Assessment is mainly by examination, but some optional modules have an element of course work. Students in the final year of all the law programmes may choose to research and write a dissertation.

We welcome applications from candidates holding a wide variety of international qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office on +44 (0)20 7882 5511 for further information.

Further information

Please contact:

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3924

j.w.duffin@qmul.ac.uk

For more information you can call the Enquiries Hotline (UK callers only) on Freephone 0800 376 1800. International students should contact the Admissions and Recruitment Office on +44 (0)20 7882 5511.