Law LLB (Hons)
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UCAS Code: M100|Duration: 3 years|Full Time|Hope Park
UCAS Campus Code: L46
Accredited|Work placement opportunities|International students can apply|Study Abroad opportunities
About the course
Law shapes our society and affects our daily lives. It defines our duties and legal needs, regulates relationships, and offers solutions when issues arise. Studying law at Liverpool Hope means diving into a complex subject. You’ll explore the rules, principles, and policies that shape our society. This degree provides a theoretical and philosophical basis in law, along with practical study and application.
To succeed in Law, you must think logically, enjoy problem-solving, and pay attention to detail. You should be able to argue your point and test others' views. The law we study is interesting and rewarding, making it ideal for those curious about current events, ethics, and the role of the state.
The Law LLB offers a chance to study law in a modern and reflective way. We aim to go beyond viewing law as just rules to memorize. Instead, we encourage you to critique current laws and practices, understand their theories, and explore their social and ethical contexts. This includes analyzing the role of professionals in today’s society.
The LLB and Joint degrees can be completed in 3 or 4 years. If you choose 4 years, the third year will involve legal work experience to prepare for the Solicitors Qualifying Exams.
Course structure
Teaching on this law degree is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, and tutorials. Lectures bring all students together, seminars are held in smaller groups of around 15–20 students, and tutorials usually include around 10 students. You also have the opportunity for weekly one-to-one meetings with your tutor for personalised guidance.
In your first year, you can expect approximately 12 teaching hours per week, reducing to around 10 hours per week in your second and third years. In addition to scheduled teaching, you are expected to spend time each week on independent study and group work to prepare for assessments.
Assessment and feedback
Throughout your studies, you will have a number of assessments each year, including written exams, essays, reports, and portfolios.
You will be given written feedback on your assessments, and you will have the opportunity to discuss this with your tutor in more detail.
Year One
The Year One curriculum of this LLB Law degree provides students with essential courses in substantive law, legal theory, and legal study skills, forming the foundation for future legal study. Students will study Public Law, which examines who makes laws, how they are made, and the relationship between lawmakers and the subjects of the law. Students are also introduced to the Law of Obligations, covering the rules that govern binding agreements between natural and legal persons and defining civil liabilities and responsibilities.
Students will also complete courses designed to develop skills in reading, studying, and applying the law, as well as understanding theories about the nature of law and its fundamental role in shaping society. All Year One courses are compulsory for Single Honours students.
Public Law
This module examines the rules, conventions, and principles governing the institutions of the United Kingdom, such as Parliament and the Cabinet, and the legal framework regulating the relationship between citizens and public administration.
Contract Law
This module covers the rules that govern binding agreements between natural and legal persons, essential to the functioning of communities and society. Topics include the formation of contracts, capacity to contract, breach of contract, and remedies for breach.
Criminal Law
This module introduces the general principles of criminal law and explores the legal requirements for main criminal offences. Topics include the basis of criminal responsibility, modes of participation, capacity, inchoate offences, and a range of specific offences from theft and robbery to non-fatal offences and homicide.
Legal System and Skills
This module introduces the legal system, procedures, and key principles such as binding precedent and judicial interpretation. It also develops legal study skills, including reading and accessing the law, legal referencing, and practical skills such as advocacy, drafting, client interviewing, negotiation, and mediation. The course covers the legal professions, routes into legal careers, and principles of ethics and professional conduct.
These modules are subject to revalidation in 2025/26.
Year Two
In Year Two of this law degree, single honours students build on the knowledge and understanding gained in Year One. Students consolidate and further develop practical legal skills through Advanced Legal Skills and deepen their understanding of the foundations of legal knowledge by studying key doctrines and principles. Modules cover Criminal Law, Land Law, and Equity and Trusts.
Students also have the opportunity to internationalise their understanding of law through European Union Law and Public International Law, providing insight into how different jurisdictions relate to each other and helping contextualise the laws of their national jurisdiction. All Year Two modulesare compulsory for single honours students.
Advanced Legal Skills
This module builds on the skills developed in Year One, using cases and legal disputes from other Year Two modules to develop problem-solving and procedural skills. It also prepares students for the Law Clinic elective in the final year.
Equity and Trusts
This module examines the principles governing legal and equitable interests in property and the interplay between equity and common law. Topics include the creation and extinction of legally binding trusts, duties of trustees, and remedies available in equity for breaches of trust.
European Union Law
This module examines the EU as a constitutional system of conferred powers, key principles and doctrines of EU law, and the rules governing the relationship between the UK and the EU following Brexit.
Land Law
This module explores the various interests that can exist in land, including principles governing the creation, ownership, use, transfer, and extinction of these interests.
Tort Law
This module covers the rules governing civil liabilities. It examines how individual and group responsibilities are determined for acts that may infringe the rights of others—essentially, the law that governs civil wrongs and duties to others.
These modules are subject to change and revalidation in 2025/26.
Year Three
In the final year of this law degree, students deepen their expertise by focusing on areas of law aligned with their personal interests and career aspirations.
All students undertake a compulsory dissertation, allowing them to research and critically explore a legal topic of their choice in depth. In addition, students study two core modules: Human Rights Law, reflecting the School’s commitment to justice, ethics, and global citizenship; and Company and Commercial Law, which provides commercially relevant knowledge highly valued by employers in both legal and non-legal sectors.
Alongside these compulsory modules, students personalise their degree by selecting four optional specialist electives from a diverse range offered by the School each year. These electives allow students to tailor their final year to their academic interests and future ambitions, whether in legal practice, policy, or further study.
Compulsory Modules
Human Rights Law
This module examines the development, nature, and enforcement of international Human Rights law. It covers international institutions with jurisdiction to interpret, protect, and enforce human rights, as well as key protected rights.
Company and Commercial Law
This module explores the internal workings of companies and how they operate in the marketplace, including company formation, legal obligations, mergers and acquisitions, and shareholder rights.
Dissertation
Students plan and undertake an independent research project under supervision, producing a major piece of written work. This allows them to develop advanced knowledge and expertise in a legal topic of their choice.
Optional Electives (Choose Four)
Public International Law
Examines the rules governing the birth, recognition, continuity, obligations, jurisdiction, and sovereign rights of states within the international legal order. It considers the distinction between customary and treaty-based rules and explores the challenges of enforcement.
Family Law
This elective explores marriage and legal protections provided by the State, as well as laws regulating conception, adoption, child abuse, juvenile crime, child rights, residence, and the legal relationship between parents and children.
Law of Evidence
Provides an analytical and critical understanding of the law of evidence in England and Wales. Covers the process of gathering evidence and rules of admissibility in the courtroom, drawing on relevant statutes and case law.
Employment Law
Examines the law regulating employment in the UK, including key principles and frameworks. The course also explores political and social issues surrounding employment law.
International Trade Law
Focuses on the law governing the multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organisation. Explores specialised areas such as public health and environmental regulations in international trade.
Environmental Law
Investigates the legal norms and principles governing environmental controls, addressing policy concerns and offering understanding of substantive UK, EU, and international environmental law.
Law Clinic
Introduces students to legal practice. Under the supervision of qualified solicitors, students provide pro-bono legal advice to fellow students and members of the public.
Elective options are subject to availability and may change.
Entry requirements
| A-Levels | BCC - BBB |
|---|---|
| UCAS Tariff Points | 104 - 120 UCAS Tariff points must come from a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent). Additional points can be made up from a range of alternative qualifications |
| BTEC | DMM - DDM |
| Access to HE | 104 - 120 Tariff Points |
| IB | 26 |
| Irish Leaving Certificate | 104 - 120 Tariff Points from Higher Level qualifications only |
| Welsh Baccalaureate | This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications |
| T-Levels | Merit |
| Subject Requirements | No specific subject requirements |
International entry requirements
| Specific Country Requirements | Select your country |
|---|---|
| IELTS | 6.0 overall (with reading and writing at 6.0) and no individual score lower than 5.5. We also accept a wide range of International Qualifications. For more information, please visit our English Language Requirements page. |
Careers
This Law Degree enables you to continue onto qualification courses for those wishing to qualify as solicitors or barristers. Many of our recent graduates have gone on to have careers as barristers, solicitors or general careers in the legal profession.
The Law LLB degree includes a range of subject knowledge, intelligences and skills appropriate for the modern legal services sector. It has been designed by academics and specialist practitioners: barristers, solicitors and the judiciary. In this way we aim to produce graduates who can demonstrate an adaptable approach to problem solving, an ability to work in a diverse range of situations and subject areas and who have a real concern and regard for their client groups and service users. We believe that it is these graduates who will have a real advantage in the workplace and are likely to be well regarded by prospective employers.
Enhancement opportunities
Work Placement Opportunities
Whilst studying Law we offer a range of placement opportunities and internships with local law firms, charities and small businesses.
SALA
The Service and Leadership Award (SALA) is offered as an extra-curricular programme involving service-based experiences, development of leadership potential and equipping you for a career in a rapidly changing world. It enhances your degree, it is something which is complimentary but different and which has a distinct ‘value-added’ component. Find out more on our Service and Leadership Award page.
Study Abroad
As part of your degree, you can choose to spend either a semester or a full year of study at one of our partner universities as part of our Study Abroad programme. Find out more on our Study Abroad page.
Tuition fees
The tuition fees for the 2026/27 academic year are £9,535* for full-time undergraduate courses.
If you are a student from the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, your tuition fees will also be £9,535*.
The University reserves the right to increase Home and EU Undergraduate and PGCE tuition fees in line with any inflationary or other increase authorised by the Secretary of State for future years of study.
*subject to Council approval.
Additional costs
On top of your tuition fees, you need approximately £10 to cover the cost of transport to fieldtrips, and in your second and third years, you need approximately £150 per year to purchase core textbooks.
You will also need to consider the cost of your accommodation each year whilst you study at university. Visit our accommodation page for further details about our Halls of Residence.
Scholarships
We have a range of scholarships to help with the cost of your studies. Visit our scholarships page to find out more.
International tuition fees
The International Tuition fees for 2026/27 are £14,500.
Visit our International fees page for more information.