Law LLB
3-4 years
Law is a hugely diverse field with so many paths you can go down. This degree is your classic route into the profession. You’ll cover fundamental subjects like contract and criminal law, but you’ll also have the freedom to explore areas you’re passionate about like human rights, intellectual property, corporate, property, family or medical law all supported by experts in their field. You can even apply to work in our on-campus pro-bono legal advice clinic as a volunteer or as part of your degree.
Course information
Typical offer AAB
UCAS code M100
Institute code L34
Taught by Leicester Law School
26th in the UK for Law (Complete University Guide 2026)
Course description
Course description
At Leicester Law School, we have shaped legal thinking and delivered real-world impact for six decades. Our globally recognised research tackles some of today’s most pressing challenges, from strengthening human rights worldwide to shaping fair financial systems and improving criminal justice. We explore issues such as access to healthcare technologies, workers’ rights and corporate governance and lead on important work in exploring how legal frameworks can ensure life-changing innovations - particularly in healthcare - are accessible to the public.Learn from experts who are influencing policy, advising governments and contributing to international projects. Their research directly shapes our teaching, giving you the opportunity to engage with current legal debates and emerging issues from the very start of your degree.
Teaching is delivered primarily through lectures and tutorials, with regular opportunities to discuss ideas and receive feedback. Our small-group tutorials allow you to explore concepts in depth, ask questions openly, and benefit from personalised feedback - helping you to build confidence, deepen your understanding, and engage in critical debate.
The LLB combines core legal subjects in Year 1 and 2 with a wide choice of optional modules in Year 3, giving you the flexibility to focus on areas that interest you most. You can also broaden your horizons by spending a year studying overseas.
The course meets the requirements for progression to the Bar Practice Course and provides a strong foundation for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). Our degrees are also recognised by the National Committee on Accreditation in Canada (NCA); our Law LLB (including Canada Law) includes Canadian law modules that help you prepare for two of the NCA exams.
As a law student, you will have access to a wide range of facilities located at the heart of campus, based in the historic Fielding Johnson Building. Our moot court allows you to experience law in action by practising trial advocacy and presenting legal arguments. You will also have access to our dedicated law library, providing a quiet and study environment.
You can also join our award-winning Pro Bono Society, which runs more than 15 diverse projects. These range from reviewing potential miscarriages of justice to supporting asylum seekers who lack the funds to pursue their claims. Our Legal Advice Clinic offers free legal advice to members of the public on a range of issues, including employment disputes, consumer rights, and family matters. You will have the opportunity to help solve real-life legal problems under the supervision of a qualified solicitor.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
No LNAT/LSAT required - Unlike some universities, Leicester Law School does not require applicants to have taken the National Admissions Test for Law, nor the equivalent that some universities require in other jurisdictions such as in USA and Canada. These tests do not provide any information that we cannot get from your exam grades, personal statement and school reference.
- A-levels: AAB. General Studies accepted
- EPQ with A-levels: ABB + EPQ at grade B
- GCSE: English language at Grade C/4 or above
- Access to HE Diploma: Pass relevant diploma with 45 credits at Level 3, including 30 credits at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit
- International Baccalaureate: Pass diploma with 33 points. Must include a minimum of grade 4 in English A or 5 in English B if minimum of grade 4/C not held in English Language at GCSE.
- BTEC Nationals: D*D*D with a strong GCSE background
- T Levels: Distinction and A in the core component. Please contact our Admissions Team for full details of T Levels accepted.
- School Diploma from a Canadian High School: 80% average
- University in Canada: C CGPA average
Other official national and international qualifications considered from across the world. You can review some of the qualifications we accept on our countries page and English Language equivalencies.
If your qualification or country is not listed, please contact us for more information, including the name and result of the qualification you have studied.
Second year entry is not permitted. Students from approved partner universities can join our UK Degree Transfer Programme.
Foundation Year available
If you don’t quite meet the above entry requirements, why not consider our Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Foundation Year?
Flexible entry requirements
We welcome applications from motivated students whose predicted grades are slightly below our standard entry requirements. We understand that predicted grades are not always an accurate reflection of your final results, and we’re happy to consider your application. Although we can’t guarantee an offer due to the high volume of applications, if you’re eligible, we may still offer you a place based on our standard requirements.
Contextual offers
The University of Leicester is committed to providing equitable opportunities for all applicants from all backgrounds. We make contextual offers to support students who may be impacted by the area they live in, their personal circumstances or who have completed one of our progression programmes. These offers are usually one or two grades lower than the standard entry requirements. To qualify for a contextual offer, you must apply for an eligible course and meet specific criteria – check if you’re eligible.
Selection Process
When considering your application, we look for evidence that you will be able to fulfil the objectives of the course and achieve the standards required. We take into account a range of factors including previous exam results, your motivation for studying a law degree and future aspirations.
Applicants are not normally interviewed. If you receive an offer you will be invited to visit the Leicester Law School.
English Language Requirements
IELTS 6.5 including 6.0 in writing (or equivalent). At Secondary School level this includes a Grade C or 4 GCSE and 80% average in English Grade 12 from a Canadian Secondary School Diploma. If your first language is not English, you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability.
If you do not yet meet our requirements, our English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers a range of courses to help you to improve your English to the necessary standard.
International Qualifications
Find your country in this list to check equivalent qualifications, scholarships and additional requirements.
Countries listFees and funding
Fees and funding
UK Students
Starting in 2026
- £9,790 in your first year.
- For the 2027/28 academic year, the Home UK tuition fee is expected to be £10,050. Further increases are anticipated to be implemented automatically through government legislation, therefore it is likely that your tuition fees will rise for each subsequent year of your studies.
Find out more about tuition fees, including year abroad, placement years, scholarships and funding.
International Students
Starting in 2026
- £20,200 per year
If you are resident outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland, you will need to pay a deposit to secure your place. This will be subtracted from your total tuition fee.
Find out more about tuition fees, including year abroad, placement years, scholarships and funding.
Additional costs for UK and International students
There may be additional travel and subsistence costs associated with any placements you undertake as part of the course.
Careers and employability
Careers and employability
At Leicester Law School, you’ll be supported to explore your career options from day one - whether you’re aiming for a legal career or considering a wider range of professional pathways. Through your studies and a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities, you’ll develop the skills, confidence and experience to take your next steps successfully.
Employability is embedded throughout your degree. Every undergraduate completes 100 hours of real, employer-informed work-related learning, built directly into the course. In Foundations of Law, you will draft a professional letter analysing a client’s issue, identifying the relevant law, and presenting clear, concise and persuasive advice. This task develops key professional skills, including client focus, commercial awareness and the ability to deliver legally accurate, practical and sensitive advice.
In Contract Law, you’ll gain hands-on experience drafting contract terms for a commercial client. Working from a realistic scenario, you will interpret client instructions, evaluate appropriate legal solutions, and produce enforceable contract terms, applying your knowledge of key cases and legislation.
Beyond your studies, you’ll have access to a wide range of opportunities to build your experience. Our award-winning Pro Bono Society enables you to experience law in action through volunteering across an extensive portfolio of projects. The Leicester Law Society offers mooting, debating, client interviewing, negotiation and mediation competitions, helping you to develop vital transferable skills. If you’re considering a career at the Bar, you can practise in our dedicated moot courtroom and grand debating chamber, and compete in national and international mooting competitions.
You’ll also benefit from tailored careers support, including:
- Networking events, including our annual Careers Fair
- Workshops on CVs, applications, interviews and assessment centres
- Regular vacancy alerts and careers newsletters
- Commercial awareness sessions and networking opportunities with legal professionals
You can also choose to spend a year abroad between your second and third years of study. Studying abroad is not only about travelling or meeting new people; it is also an opportunity to develop valuable life skills that are increasingly important in today’s global workplace.
Our LLB degrees meet the academic requirements to progress to professional training as a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, and provide exemptions towards Chartered Legal Executive qualifications. In partnership with The University of Law, you will also have the opportunity to continue your professional training with the LLM Legal Practice (SQE1&2) on campus. If you plan to become a barrister, you can progress to the vocational stage of Bar training after completing your LLB.
If you intend to qualify outside England and Wales, you should check requirements with the relevant professional body. Our degrees are recognised by the Legal Practice Qualifications Board of Malaysia. Our degrees are also recognised by the National Committee on Accreditation in Canada (NCA); our Law LLB (including Canada Law) includes Canadian law modules that help you prepare for two of the NCA exams.
Our graduates secure roles across a wide range of employers including:
- A&O Shearman
- Clifford Chance
- Goldman Partners
- HM Courts & Tribunals Service
- House of Lords
- Morgan Stanley
- Norton Rose Fulbright
- Slaughter and May
(Graduate Outcomes Survey)
After graduating from Leicester Law School, Michael went on to work at Slaughter & May, a member of the prestigious Magic Circle of law firms.
Careers and Employability Service
Get career-ready at Leicester with guidance from our award-winning Careers and Employability Service. We're here to give you a lifetime offer of support, even after graduation. Our team of specialist careers advisers and mentors will help you every step of the way. From supporting you with CVs and interviews, to volunteering opportunities and placements, we're here to help you reach your professional goals.
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
We are committed to providing skills and knowledge to help prepare you tackle global challenges. We have mapped our undergraduate degrees for learning which aligns to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This degree includes learning which relates to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
- Goal 3: Health and well-being
- Goal 5: Gender equality
- Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
- Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- Goal 10: Reduced inequalities
- Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong institutions
Qualifying as a Lawyer or Barrister
Qualifying as a Lawyer
Qualifying as a Lawyer is now very flexible and there are several different routes you can take. We’re here to support you in gaining the right experience for whichever route you choose. Find out more about:
- How the Leicester Law School LLB degrees prepare you for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE)
- Information about Stages 1 and 2 of the SQE
- How we can help you in getting Qualifying Work Experience
- How graduates from Leicester Law School benefit from our partnership with the University of Law, who operate guaranteed entry schemes, discounts and scholarships created for Leicester graduates
- How you can fund your SQE Preparation Course
- How the team of specialist careers tutors will support you to make the right decision for you and your future
More on the Solicitors Qualifying Exam
Qualifying as a Barrister in England & Wales
You can progress to a bar course for the vocational component of barrister’s training after completing any LLB degree at Leicester. Find out more about:
- How the Leicester Law School LLB degrees and extra-curricular opportunities help you progress to the vocational part of bar training
- How graduates from Leicester Law School benefit from our partnership with the University of Law.
- How the team of specialist careers tutors will support you to make the right decision for you and your future
Integrated AI
Integrated AI
At Leicester, you will study with full access to Microsoft 365 Copilot through our collaboration with global tech leader, Microsoft. As one of the first Microsoft Frontier Universities in the UK, we are helping to shape how AI is used in higher education and the workplace.
You will build practical, transferable skills that employers value. From analysing information and solving problems to communicating ideas and working collaboratively, you will learn to apply your knowledge in a digital world.
When you graduate, you will leave with more than a degree. You will have the skills and confidence to work with the technologies shaping your future.
100 hours work-related learning
100 hours work-related learning
Your future career starts right here, whilst you study. On all of our undergraduate courses you are guaranteed 100 hours of real, employer‑informed work‑related learning, built directly into your course.
You will gain a range of skills and grow in confidence through a mixture of activities, aligned closely to your subject. This could range from placements, clinics, laboratory work, field work and “real-world” projects such as live briefs, consultancy challenges, simulations, and virtual internships (discipline aligned and interdisciplinary).
By the time you graduate you'll be able to articulate and demonstrate to future employers you have the skills they are looking for as well as the understanding of your subject.
Course structure
Year 1
Year 1
In the first year, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of the English legal system, including the development of laws, approaches to interpreting the law and the structure of the courts. You will learn how to think critically about the way the law operates, solve legal problems and develop an understanding of working in the legal profession. You will consider the role that law plays in resolving disputes, upholding justice and regulating society.
Modules
During the second term of your first year, you can choose to study the LLB by this standard route or switch to a variant which includes two mandatory modules on Canadian law: Foundations of Canadian Law in Year 2 and Canadian Constitutional Law in Year 3.
The modules listed reflect those currently available to students starting in the next intake and may differ from the modules available to current students. Every year, we review our modules and their content to ensure that our courses maintain the best academic and student experience possible. Whilst this does mean elements of your course may change in future academic years, it ensures your course is giving you a research-inspired education and preparing you for your future.
Year 2
Year 2
During your second year you will build on your fundamental understanding by refining your knowledge in the foundation areas of law. You will consider the laws which regulate ownership and use of land, criminal behaviour, the protection of assets held for others and the role that European Union law continues to play.
Core modules
The modules listed reflect those currently available to students starting in the next intake and may differ from the modules available to current students. Every year, we review our modules and their content to ensure that our courses maintain the best academic and student experience possible. Whilst this does mean elements of your course may change in future academic years, it ensures your course is giving you a research-inspired education and preparing you for your future.
Year Abroad (optional)
Year Abroad (optional)
We’ll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.
Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur – you will find the experience invaluable.
For more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.
Please note
- A year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See the Fees and Funding tab of this page for details.
- You may be eligible for a travel grant from Student Finance England.
- Places are offered on a competitive basis, and eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2.
- Language courses, at beginners or advanced level, are available through our Languages at Leicester scheme.
The modules listed reflect those currently available to students starting in the next intake and may differ from the modules available to current students. Every year, we review our modules and their content to ensure that our courses maintain the best academic and student experience possible. Whilst this does mean elements of your course may change in future academic years, it ensures your course is giving you a research-inspired education and preparing you for your future.
Final Year
Final Year
In your final year, you will have the freedom to specialise in your degree. All of the modules that you will take in your final year will be option modules, giving you the opportunity to tailor your degree around the areas of law that most interest you. Below is a list of option modules currently offered within Leicester Law School. You will be given more information on choosing your option modules in your second year of study.
Option modules
Choose four option modules from:
- Bioethics
- Company Law
- Law Dissertation
- Employment Law
- Family Law
- Human Rights in the 21st Century
- Immigration Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Law in Practice: Legal Advice Clinic Community projects
- International Law
- Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy
- Law of Evidence
- Medical Law
- Commercial Law
You can also choose any two modules from the list below in place of one module from the list above:
- Competition Law
- Law in Practice: Legal Advice Clinic
- Law in Practice: (Clinic Academy Pathway)*
- Commercial Law in a Digital World
- Drug Policy, Criminology and the law
- Law in the Age of AI
- Critical Criminal Justice
- Wills and the Administration of Estates
- Animal Rights Law
- Law and Religion
- Gender, Sexuality and the Law
- Commercial Property
- Real Estate in Practice
- Dispute Resolution
- Business Law in Practice
- Environmental, Climate Change and Sustainability Law
*Subject to completion of Clinical Academy in Year Two
The modules listed reflect those currently available to students starting in the next intake and may differ from the modules available to current students. Every year, we review our modules and their content to ensure that our courses maintain the best academic and student experience possible. Whilst this does mean elements of your course may change in future academic years, it ensures your course is giving you a research-inspired education and preparing you for your future.
Why Leicester?
Law at Leicester
Always accessible and willing to help, Lucie’s tutors were a valuable part of her degree.
Gain practical skills through our award-winning Pro Bono Society, which offers hundreds of volunteer roles across an extensive range of free legal advice and support projects. Working alongside legal professionals, you can advise real clients and support the local community. The projects support local and global communities, including investigations of miscarriage of justice in the UK and for prisoners on death row in the USA.
You’ll get personal support with your learning in our small group tutorial classes of around 12 to 15 students.
We have a strong reputation within the legal profession and our annual Law Fair attracts leading employers - all five Magic Circle firms have visited Leicester to recruit our students. The full range of legal employers visit Leicester to recruit students from the Law School.
Reading list
See the types of resources you might read, over the summer, to get a feel for a Law degree and arrive well-prepared and ready to go.
Teaching and learning
Teaching is delivered in two main styles: lectures and small group tutorials. With two lectures in each module per week and a tutorial once a fortnight, you will have approximately 12 contact hours each week.
Lectures provide the foundation for each subject, while tutorials give you the opportunity to explore topics in greater depth. In tutorials, you will test your understanding by analysing legal problems, planning how to advise a client, and engaging in critical discussion with fellow students under the guidance of an academic tutor. These small-group sessions ensure that your views are heard and that you can ask questions to deepen your understanding. This personalised learning environment provides individual support while helping you develop the confidence to articulate and defend legal arguments. Some optional modules also include seminar-style teaching in slightly larger groups, particularly where collaborative work helps replicate the experience of working in professional teams.
We use a range of digital and web-based resources to complement traditional teaching methods and support your learning. You will have easy access to computers in the David Wilson Library, located next to the Law School, as well as quiet study space in the historic Harry Peach Law Library. Course materials, module information and tutorial resources are also available electronically, enabling you to access key learning resources wherever you are.
Assessment is varied and designed to develop both academic and professional legal skills. Alongside essays, coursework, examinations and multiple-choice assessments, you’ll complete a range of practical, work-related tasks that reflect legal practice. These include professional legal writing, drafting counsel’s opinions, preparing skeleton arguments, analysing client problems, and presenting legal advice, helping you develop research, problem-solving, advocacy and written communication skills. Collaborative group assessments further enhance employability by requiring you to work as part of a team, manage deadlines, resolve conflicts, make strategic decisions and reflect on your own professional development, mirroring the demands of client-focused and team-based legal work.
Independent learning
Outside of your teaching, you continue learning independently through self-study. Typically, this involves reading journal articles and books, preparing for tutorials, working on individual and group assignments, undertaking research in the library, and preparing for exams. To help with your independent learning, you can access the Library and our social study spaces in halls of residence.
Your contact hours will depend on the option modules you select. You can see details of the contact hours on individual module pages.
Academic support
Our Centre for Academic Achievement provides help in the following areas:
- study and exam skills
- academic writing
- presentations
- dissertations
- numerical data skills
- referencing sources
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| Course | Qualification | Duration | UCAS Code | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Course Law | Qualification LLB | Duration 3 years full-time | UCAS Code M100 | Availability How to apply |
| Course Law with Year Abroad | Qualification LLB | Duration 4 years full-time | UCAS Code M100 | Availability How to apply |
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Really enjoy the fact that your learning is supported by small sized tutorial groups, which allow you to take part in intense discussions and ensure you understand all areas of the law.