Law
Our law degree gives you the essential skills and knowledge you’ll need for professional legal practice, while also encouraging you to think critically about the law, and the relationship between law and social justice. Our exciting curriculum will enable you to pursue specialist interests and equip you to meet the challenges of a changing world.
Law at Loughborough
You'll gain foundational knowledge about the ’building blocks’ of law and a good understanding of how the law works in practice, as well as key specialist legal skills, and in-depth insight into selected areas of interest. You’ll be taught by leading experts in their fields, who research in areas such as equality and inequality, the environment, the role of the state and transnational institutions, and the regulation of new technologies, bringing the latest developments in research into their teaching. You’ll be part of a small, supportive community of students and staff with social justice at its heart.
Our courses
Links with industry
Our staff work with a broad range of public, private and third sector bodies and organisations, providing research, advice and collaboration. Our External Advisory Board includes representatives from the legal profession and judiciary, government and community legal services and legal academia.
All our undergraduate students have the opportunity to undertake a year- or semester-long professional work placement during their degree, in a wide variety of organisations. In the workplace, they apply the skills and knowledge learnt during their course to real-world situations. Students may also undertake projects or other pro bono work with partner organisations as part of their assessed coursework.
Facilities
Loughborough Law occupies its own newly refurbished building on the Loughborough campus. It features dedicated student study areas, meeting rooms and social spaces, and a state-of-the-art moot courtroom where students can develop their skills in courtroom advocacy.
Accreditation
The Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board no longer accredit law degrees in England and Wales. However, the Bar Standards Board specifies that those wishing to qualify as a barrister must have a degree that incorporates the Foundations of Legal Knowledge. These are fully covered by the compulsory modules of the Loughborough LLB. The Bar Standards Board also specifies minimum standards concerning pass marks in Foundations of Legal Knowledge subjects and an overall 2:2 degree classification that individual applicants must satisfy.
Career opportunities
Many students completing a Law degree progress to legal practice, either as a barrister at the Bar, or as a solicitor in a law firm.
Other types of legal work available to law graduates include working in the civil service, including the government legal service, or in local government; being an in-house lawyer in a large corporation or other institution; working in a community legal service, advice service, international institution or international NGO; or working for the Courts and Tribunals service, or as a legal executive or a patent attorney.
A law degree also provides a range of transferrable skills such as analysis, problem-solving, oral and written communication and skills of argument and persuasion which are highly valued in other areas such as business, finance, entrepreneurship, services to the legal industry, charities, journalism and politics.
Languages
We provide a range of language modules in French, German or Spanish and Mandarin Chinese from complete beginners level upwards.
Through your language modules you will practise a range of transferable skills that will help you in your own field: face-to-face communication, formal and informal presentations, negotiating, convincing and mediating, producing multi-media materials, summarising and conveying information in writing. You will develop skills in your chosen language in small, interactive classes, and will gain greater cultural competence as you move up the levels.