Our LLB is renowned both nationally and internationally for its originality and innovative quality. In addition to the traditional face-to-face lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, our LLB incorporates a range of exciting eLearning activities to enhance your overall learning experience. Academically rigorous, our LLB will expose you to a practical real-world application of the law. We will develop your problem solving, research and personal skills, equipping you with the academic knowledge and key transferrable skills which are in demand by employers.
Our innovative approach to legal education is demonstrated by our very successful American/UK legal placement schemes and our active Student Mooting Society.
Combining the academic with the practical, you will have the opportunity to work on 'real' cases with 'real' clients. The Legal Advice and Representation Unit option module is one example of practice-based learning, where you will have the opportunity to work in a local Citizens Advice Bureau or other provider of legal services. You will also have the opportunity to participate in an internship in the USA as part of our unique American Legal Practice option module.
We have active student-led Legal and Mooting Societies. Our Student Mooting Society is one of the most successful in England. Our students successfully enter mooting teams in a variety of prestigious national mooting competitions including the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, Oxford University Press, English Speaking Union and the Inner Temple Inter-Varsity Competition. In the past 8 years, they have reached 5 finals of national mooting competitions in the past 8 year and have beaten 8 of the elite Russell Group of universities. They organise a range of internal mooting and social activities throughout the academic year including the School of Law Internal Mooting Competition which is sponsored by LexisNexis Butterworths.
Our LLB is taught by an outstanding team of professional staff with extensive practice experience and a friendly, open door policy giving you all the support you need. We place our students at the centre of everything we do.
Professional Body Recognition
Our LLB is accredited by the Joint Academic Stage Board, which represents the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board of England and Wales. It is a Qualifying Law Degree, satisfying the academic stage of training if you are seeking to qualify as a solicitor or barrister of England and Wales.
It is also recognised by the Bar Council of India. However, Bar Council of India recognition stipulates that the three-year LLB can only be taken by graduates e.g. BA, BSc, BCom, BBA (any subject). Non-graduate entrants, who seek Bar Council of India recognition, will need to take our unique four-year LLB.
Many overseas legal professional bodies recognise our LLB, particularly in Commonwealth countries. If you intend to practise overseas, you should contact the local Law Society or Bar Council. The majority will require you to undertake additional training after graduating from our LLB before being authorised to practise law.
Key Facts
- Respected, recognised and offering a practical, real-world application of the law.
- All LLB (Hons) Programmes are accredited by the Joint Academic Stage Board, which represents the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board of England and Wales.
- All LLB (Hons) programmes have a common first year where you study four of the compulsory modules for a qualifying law degree, before choosing a specific area of the law in your second year.
- Specialist routes include:
- Law with American Legal Studies
- Law with Business Law
- Law with Criminology
- Strong professional links with Birmingham Law Society (the UK's largest Law Society outside London), and the four Inns of Court, especially Lincoln's Inn and Inner Temple.
- Strategic partnerships with respected firms such as Squire Sanders LLP, ensure our courses are professionally relevant for today's legal practice.
- Learn alongside an outstanding team of professional staff with extensive practice experience - an open door policy gives you the expert support you need.
Why Choose Us?
- Close individual attention and ample opportunity for your input.
- In addition to face-to-face teaching, a range of e-learning resources are available to support your learning including a Virtual Solicitors' Office putting the professional legal world at your fingertips.
- Employability is embedded into all our LLB programmes with compulsory skills modules in the first and second year - Skills, Process and Scholarship in the first year; and Professional Practice in the second year.
- Two mock law courts let you taste the atmosphere of legal cut and thrust.
- Thriving Mooting Society which:
- Organises a range of internal mooting and social activities throughout the academic year.
- Enters mooting teams in a variety of prestigious national mooting competitions including the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, Oxford University Press, English Speaking Union and the Inner Temple Inter-Varsity Competition.
- Has beaten eight of the elite Russell Group of universities in the past eight years.
- Includes the national champions of the prestigious Web Legal Mooting Competition 2012 as two of its members
- Are sponsored by LexisNexis Butterworths for the School of Law Internal Mooting Competition.
- The School's Centre for American Legal Studies operates the UK's largest student internship programme to the USA - and has placed over 500 students in Federal and State Public Defender offices, private attorney offices, American University Law Schools, and law projects.
- School regularly welcomes visiting speakers from the profession; eminent guests have included Michael Edwards, a US attorney well known for his pioneering work in legal reform.
- All students joining the course in 2014 will gain one year's membership with the Birmingham Law Society.
