Law with Foundation Year Bachelor of Law (with Honours) - LLB (Hons)

Explore the latest developments in legal practice with this comprehensive degree encompassing the core areas of the English legal system while offering a fascinating choice of optional subjects. This allows you to follow your interests in areas such as medical law and ethics; family and child law; immigration and asylum law; aviation law; and international human rights law. You also develop essential, transferable skills including the ability to ‘think on your feet’ and present your views in a reasoned, convincing manner.

Foundation Year\
In the Foundation year you will study three days per week. The focus will be on academic writing skills and numeracy, plus subject-specific content to fully prepare you for entry to an Undergraduate degree. It provides a balance between content related to your chosen subject and the range of wider skills required for undergraduate study. This is an integrated four-year degree, with the foundation year as a key part of the course. You will be required to pass the foundation year in order to progress to the first year of your degree. This course is ideal for those who do not meet our standard entry requirements or those with a non-standard educational background. It will allow you to graduate with a full undergraduate degree in your chosen subject in four years.

Course accreditations

Law LLB (Hons) students study a Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) qualification that gives you examination exemptions; once you have completed the course, you can apply for employment as a legal executive in areas such as conveyancing and contract drafting.

This course is mapped to the National Association of Licensed Paralegals (NALP) guidelines, offering a dual qualification: LLB (Hons) Law and Higher Diploma in Paralegal Studies. On graduating, you can become an NALP member and work as a paralegal.

All our LLB courses cover the Foundation of Legal Knowledge subjects and satisfy the requirements set by the Bar Standards Board for the academic component of Bar training. Upon successfully completing the LLB with a minimum grade of 2:ii, graduates who wish to qualify as barristers will be able to progress on to the Bar training course.

Facilities and specialist equipment

* Recently refurbished Moot Court, equipped with digital technology to ensure it reflects an actual court-room environment

* Leading legal research databases used by professionals, including LexisNexis, Westlaw and HeinOnline

* Oxford Law Trove, an online platform giving students access to the wealth of legal educational materials published by Oxford University Press

Career-powered links

Our Law students benefit from six months’ qualifying work experience at local law firms such as Macfarlanes, Machins, Greystone and Solomon as well as at Luton County Court and the Crown Prosecution Service.

This work experience counts towards your qualification as a solicitor, assisting in the SQE professional recognition (solicitors’ qualifying exam requirements).

We also offer hands-on experience of real legal work through our three community law clinics: family law, criminal law and law related to asylum seekers.

Your student experience

Gain professional supervised practice via our three law clinics: family law, criminal law and law related to asylum seekers.

Widen your experience through field trips to the Inns of Court in London, the Houses of Parliament, the UK Supreme Court and Luton Crown Court; you also have opportunities to take part in mooting competitions.

Attend research events organised by our Centre for Research in Law (CRiL) and guest talks by prestigious speakers including arbitrators, judges, renowned academics, Members of Parliament and leading legal practitioners from City law firms.