Law – LLB (Honours)
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At a glance
This fully qualifying law degree prepares you for a professional career in law or the wider public, business and commercial sectors. The course has a practical focus where your academic learning is combined with developing the essential skills for employment. We provide you with opportunities to work on real life cases and build an impressive CV as you study.
Key points
• Take a degree that is fully qualifying and covers core law subjects.• Gain experience with our range of practical legal modules.
• Build your CV working in a legal service provider on our law in practice placement modules
• Gain international experience working and studying overseas.
What is law?
An often fast-pac…
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At a glance
This fully qualifying law degree prepares you for a professional career in law or the wider public, business and commercial sectors. The course has a practical focus where your academic learning is combined with developing the essential skills for employment. We provide you with opportunities to work on real life cases and build an impressive CV as you study.
Key points
• Take a degree that is fully qualifying and covers core law
subjects.• Gain experience with our range of practical legal
modules.
• Build your CV working in a legal service provider on our law in
practice placement modules
• Gain international experience working and studying overseas.
What is law?
An often fast-paced and far-reaching system of rules designed to
ensure equality in society and protect individuals' rights. The
legal profession has two different strands, both aimed at securing
the best possible outcome for their clients. As a barrister, you
plead cases on behalf of your client in Court. As a solicitor you
manage your client's case from the very beginning right the way
through to its conclusion.
This course
Sheffield Hallam's Law School is renowned for its innovative approach to teaching based on the application of key legal skills in the workplace. We pioneered this practical approach to learning and continue to be recognised as a market leader in this area. This provides an excellent foundation for all students whether they wish to enter the legal profession or move into other careers.
You can prepare for a career in law on this fully qualifying law degree designed and developed in consultation with our extensive network of employers. It satisfies the standards of the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Council for academic legal training. On the course you study all the core law subjects required by the professional bodies as well as being able to choose from a variety of law options.
As a student you benefit from our extensive experience of clinical legal education. You gain hands-on experience with our fully integrated clinical programme. The course includes a number of unique work related modules designed to give you that practical edge needed in today's competitive employment market.
Key areas of study
This course provides you with the opportunity to study a number of
key legal areas including criminal law • civil law • corporate law
• public law • human rights and negligence.
We also have a range of modules directly related to the legal profession, which involve work on real live client work.
Law clinic
Our law clinic is a fully regulated solicitors' practice where you
work under the supervision of qualified solicitors on real cases
from first interview to county court or employment tribunal, as
appropriate. It gives you an insight into the pressures and demands
of the legal profession.
Law in practice
You can build on practical experience in the law by applying to
spend one day each week with a legal service provider to gain
invaluable experience within a professional setting. Law in
practice is often in a solicitor's office working on real life
cases.
Law in practice (international)
To gain a greater understanding of law in practice in an
international setting, you can apply to spend the summer working
law firms across the USA.
Innocence Project UK programme
You can apply to work on a real case of an alleged miscarriage of
justice on our Innocence project. You will gain a unique insight
into the criminal justice system which many do not experience until
in practice.
Law in the community
You work in a team to research and deliver presentations on
different areas of law to various community groups. This develops
your legal research and presentation skills.
Mooting
Being able to advocate is an essential part of a solicitor's or
barrister's career. You represent fictitious clients in a mock
trial, usually on a matter of civil law. This takes place in our
on-campus moot court.
International opportunities
You may be able to study overseas in the second year through the
Erasmus programme. Overseas study counts towards your final
degree.
We have links with • HES Amsterdam School of Economics and
Business, Holland ( taught in English)
• Anadolu University, Turkey (taught in English)
• University of Silesia, Poland (taught in English)
• University of Toulouse, France (taught in English)
• University of Innsbruck, Austria (taught in Austrian German)
• University Jaume I de Castellon, Spain (taught in Spanish)
• University of Milan, Italy (taught in Italian)
You may also be able to spend a placement year with Carleton University, Canada or Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Mooting and Debating Society
We have a very active Mooting and Debating Society and members take
part in both internal and national competitions. We have enjoyed
considerable success in these competitions. In 2009 we beat over 60
university law schools to win the final of the Oxford University
Press (OUP)/BPP National Mooting Competition and were finalists in
2010.
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