These two periods of clinical legal education are carried out in years two and three of the course. The LL.B. Law and LL.B. Business and Finance Law degrees have many common subjects, and are distinct mainly in respect of the specially designated options available to Business and Finance students. All of the law degrees are fully recognised by the Law Society and the Council of Legal Education as giving exemption from the academic stage of their professional examinations on the usual condition that the 'core' subjects are taken by the student. In their first year of study, students are required to take options to the value of one third of their first year credits in subjects offered by other departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences, such as Introduction to Psychology, Micro-economics, or Modern British History. In the final year of their degree, students are also required to submit a dissertation of 10-12,000 words on a topic chosen in consultation with a Departmental supervisor.
Students progress through three levels of study, each of which consists of two semesters.
Each semester lasts 15 weeks and there are the usual breaks at Christmas and Easter as well as an inter-semester week in February. There are other advantages. The opportunity to try out different sorts of legal work will help you in selecting your preferred career. You can see how practising lawyers do their work. We help you find the right placement - but you help too, by deciding what you want to do and presenting yourself effectively to employers.