LLB Law

The LLB degree is a highly flexible three-year, full-time course. There are approximately  280 students each year of the LLB. While providing a solid grounding in the main areas of English law, and the skills required in legal research and practice, it also allows for individual specialization through a variety of optional modules offered by the School and other departments in the University.

The degree course provides the opportunity to obtain a Qualifying Law degree as recognized by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board. (Please note: whether or not a degree exempts a student from the academic stage of training to be a solicitor or barrister depends on the modules that the student studies. In practice virtually all of our students choose to study the modules that are required by the Law Society and Bar Council, and thus do gain a Qualifying Law Degree.)

Year 1

The modules which students take in their first year are designed to provide a solid foundation of legal knowledge that can be built upon in subsequent years. Students will study all of the following:

• Introduction to English Law and Legal Method (20 credits)
• Tort Law (20 credits)
• Contract Law (20 credits)
• EU Constitutional Law (20 credits)
• UK Constitutional Law (20 credits)
• The Individual and the State (20 credits)

Year 2

In the second year, you will need to study three further modules in order to obtain a Qualifying Law degree. You may then take a further three optional modules, giving you the chance to tailor the course to your own requirements. The compulsory modules for Qualifying Law degree purposes are:

• Criminal Law 
• Land Law 
• Trusts and Equity.

An indicative list of optional modules is given in the list below. However, students may also, at the discretion of the departments concerned, elect to take a 20-credit module from the open modules (at first or second year) offered by another department at Durham University.

Level 2 Optional Modules

• Advanced Issues in Public Law (20 credits)
• Commercial Law (20 credits)
• Employment Law (20 credits)
• The European Internal Market and its Citizens (20 credits)
• Public International Law (20 credits)
• Religion and Law (20 credits)
• Law, Gender and Society (20 credits)
• Law of Family Relationships (20 credits)
• Evidence and Criminal Process (20 credits)

Year 3

In the final year, you will study one compulsory 40-credit Dissertation module and four optional modules. Students must choose at least three modules (60 credits) from Level 3 (with an indicative list given below), with the possibility to select one module from Level 2. It may also be possible for you, at the discretion of the departments concerned, to elect to take a 20-credit module from the open modules offered by another department at Durham University at second or third year (although if the chosen module is at Level 2, you will not be entitled to choose a Level 2 Law module).

Level 3 Optional Modules

• Company Law (20 credits)
• Intellectual Property Law (20 credits)
• Law of the International Community (20 credits)
• Law and Medicine (20 credits)
• Competition Law(20 credits)
• International Human Rights (20 credits)
• Interscholastic Mooting (20 credits)
• International Criminal Law (20 credits)
• Advanced Issues in Employment and Discrimination Law (20 credits)
• Legal History (20 credits)
• Comparative Constitutional Law (20 credits)
• Corporate Finance (10 credits)
• Law in Practice (10 credits)

Please note that the list of optional modules available in any year will vary depending on the available teaching staff. The lists above provide an example of the type of modules that may be offered.

Please note that the Law School at Durham does not offer a 'Senior Status' LLB. The only undergraduate courses currently on offer are the three-year, full-time, LLB; and the four-year LLB (Year Abroad). Both are applied to using the UCAS code M101 (applicants for the LLB (Year Abroad) opt into that degree course when they come to the end of the first year of the LLB). It is also not possible to combine Law with another subject.

Study Abroad

Law School

The LLB with a Year Abroad (YA) program comprises all of the content of the three-year regular LLB, plus an exciting additional year spent at one of our European or international partners during the third year of study. At present, Durham Law School has partnerships with universities in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Singapore.

Durham University has further institutional links with universities in the USA, Canada, China, and New Zealand. Graduates of degrees such as this are highly sought after by employers and may be particularly suited to working in an international context. LLB (YA) students may study at some of our partner universities in English, whereas for others, foreign language skills are necessary. Students must apply for the regular LLB at Durham through UCAS, and then apply to transfer onto the LLB (YA) in their second year of study. Students are selected on academic merit and, where appropriate, on linguistic ability

Options Available:-

• 4 Year With Foundation Year