LLB Law - (subject to validation)

Entry requirements & fees

3 years (or 4 years - including integrated placement year)

UCAS Code: M100 3 years full-time, 4 years full-time (with placement)
Typical offers:
A Levels: AAB (340 UCAS points)
IB: 34 points. Minimum scores of 6, 6, 5 at Higher level. Minimum scores of 5 in English and Maths at Standard level
BTEC, Access & other: BTEC National Diploma DDD. Access to HE students are eligible to apply for this course.

Further requirements:
5 GCSEs grades A*- C to include:
GCSE Maths – grade C
GCSE English – grade B
Please note that General Studies does not contribute towards the UCAS points requirement but is welcomed as an additional qualification.

Applicants receiving offers are invited to an open day.

Course outline

Jump to:

• Modules
• Learning, teaching & assessment
• Placement year
• Professional accreditation
• Career prospects
• Personal development
• Facilities & equipment
• Teaching staff
• Further information

Modules

Year 1

• Contract law
• Constitutional and Administrative Law
• Criminal Law
• Legal Skills and System
• Legal Theory

Year 2

• Law of Torts
• Land Law
• Professional skills and ethics
• Crime, Justice and Society
• Optional module

Final Year

• Law of Equity and Trusts
• Dissertation
• Optional modules*

*Optional modules include: Company Law, Employment Law, EU Law, International Sales Law, Intellectual Property Law, Commercial Law, Family Law, Medical law, Competition Law, Restitution.  (EU law must be studied to obtain the qualifying law degree). 

Learning, teaching & assessment

You will experience a range of teaching methods including lectures, tutorials, group-working, guest lectures, visits to law courts, and case studies. Traditional teaching is supported by a virtual learning environment that is used to host a range of electronic supporting materials.

Mooting and presentations are used to develop advocacy skills and problem solving exercises are used extensively to help apply legal knowledge to real life situations.

Assessment is provided by a mix of coursework and examination.

Placement year

Our integrated placement year allows you to undertake a professional paid placement, where you gain valuable practical experience. We have links to over 1000 different organisations and advertise around 3000 posts each year.

The placement year also increases your commercial awareness and gives you the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in practice.

Find out more about the placement year at ABS.

Professional accreditation

This is a qualifying law degree. It is recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board as satisfying the academic stage of legal training for solicitors or barristers. As an Aston LLB graduate you can therefore proceed directly to the Legal Practice Course or Bar Vocational Course.

Graduates can also gain exemptions from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Career prospects

This degree will appeal to anyone wishing to pursue a career as a solicitor or barrister. A degree in law also provides an excellent foundation for a variety of careers in the private and public sectors where legal knowledge is needed, including taxation, accountancy, consultancy and human resource management.

Aston Business School has an outstanding record of producing successful, highly sought after graduates. Of our 2007 graduates over 80% were in graduate-level employment within 6 months of graduating.

Further details of ABS graduate destinations

Personal development

This degree is designed to also give you a range of transferable and practical skills to help you succeed within your chosen career. We make extensive use of group working and presentations to prepare you for the reality of working life. Such work develops your team working and negotiating skills.

Our placement year gives you the genuine practical experience that is invaluable in developing an appreciation of legal, business and cultural issues which cannot be fully replicated in the lecture room.

Facilities & equipment

Teaching staff

Robert Goddard
Course Director
Robert’s research interests are in company law, corporate governance and taxation. His principal publications are within company law. Robert is also interested in Scots law and has published in the leading Scottish law journals. Robert has a blog that he uses in his teaching, please feel free to visit.

Professor Jill Poole
Associate Dean
Jill specialises in contract law, corporate law and commercial law, particularly arbitration, banking law and competition law. Jill also has a particular interest in comparative corporate governance and regulation and comparative contract law, particularly formation issues.

Claire Howell
Senior Lecturer
Claire has teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level of Company Law; Sale of Goods and Agency, Contract law, Employment Law and Intellectual Property Law. Claire's research interests are in Company and Intellectual Property Law.

Frank Meisel
Senior Lecturer
Frank’s principal research interests lie in the areas of the law of sales, particularly auction sales, and commercial law generally. Frank's teaching interests are in international business law and international sale of goods.