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Modules

Find out about the modules offered on our Undergraduate Law LLB programmes at Queen Mary University of London.

Our LLB programmes incorporate all the compulsory modules needed to meet Bar Council and Law Society requirements.

In your second and final years, you will be able to choose from a broad range of specialist fields – such as human rights law, criminology, intellectual property and medical negligence.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus one full or two half modules from the list below:

Full modules

Half modules

Year 3

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totaling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

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Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling 2.5 full modules from the list below. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

Senior Status programme

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus one full or two half modules from the list below:

Full modules

Half modules

Year 3

You'll spend your third academic year studying law at a university outside the UK. We currently partner with following institutions:

  • Argentina - Torcuato Di Tella University* (Buenos Aires)
  • Australia - The University of Adelaide
  • Australia - University of Queensland (Brisbane)
  • Brazil - University of São Paulo*
  • Canada - Osgoode School of Law, York University
  • Canada - University of Toronto
  • Chile - PUC-Chile*
  • China - East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) (Shanghai)
  • China - Renmin Law School, Renmin University of China (Beijing)
  • Hong Kong - The University of Hong Kong
  • India - OP Jindal Global Law School (JGU)
  • Japan - Kobe University
  • New Zealand - University of Auckland
  • Singapore - National University of Singapore
  • USA - The University of Texas at Austin
  • USA - George Washington University

(*) These institutions teach in the native language, therefore competency in Spanish or Portuguese is required.

Year 4

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

LLB Global Law programme

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus one full or two half modules from the list below:

Full modules

Half modules

Year 3

You’ll spend your third academic year studying law at a university outside the UK. You’ll select your host institution midway through your second year.

Queen Mary currently partners with the following universities:

Tuition in English

  • Austria - University of Vienna
  • Belgium – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Denmark – University of Copenhagen
  • Italy – Università di Bologna
  • Italy – Bocconi University Milan
  • Netherlands - Utrecht University
  • Netherlands - Universiteit Leiden

Tuition in native language

  • France – Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II)*
  • France – Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I)*
  • Germany – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Spain – Universidad Complutense de Madrid

*If you choose to study at Panthéon-Assas or Panthéon-Sorbonne, you’ll need to complete a two-year French language course at Queen Mary.

At Panthéon-Assas the intensive ‘Licence’ path will give you a French undergraduate law degree and involves more lectures and seminars with less module choice.

Year 4

Compulsory

Plus full or half modules totalling three full modules from any modules available in year 2 and the following modules which are only available to final year students. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

LLB English and European Law programme

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Plus 45 credits of level 5 politics optional modules. An example of these modules can be found on the School of Politics and International Relations website.

Year 3

Compulsory

plus 30 credits of laws modules from the list below and 30 credits of politics modules. You can also choose to write a dissertation of 30 credits on a legal topic of your choice as an alternative to a taught module.

Full modules

Half modules

LLB Law and Politics

Year 1

Compulsory

Plus, choose one from

  • Fundamentals of Management
  • Introduction to Marketing and Communications
  • Accounting for Business
  • Business and Society
  • Introduction to Financial Accounting

Year 2

Compulsory

Choose one or two from

  • Ethics and business
  • Technologies in the Workplace
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Entrepreneurial Learning
  • Introduction to Finance
  • Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
  • Business and History
  • Creative industries
  • Corporations and Social Responsibility
  • Responsible Leadership
  • European Business Context
  • Global Governance and International Organisations
  • Inequalities: Work, Education and Housing

Year 3

Compulsory

Equity and Trusts

Plus 45 credits of law law optional modules and 45 credits of business optional modules:

Full modules

Half modules

Choose from business modules

  • Financial Management
  • Employment Relations
  • Global Supply Chains
  • Financial Markets and Institutions 
  • Contemporary Strategic Analysis 
  • Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases
  • International Business
  • Business and Social Approaches to Social Media 
  • Corporate Law and Governance 
  • Company Valuation
  • Business computing
  • Gender at Work 
  • Global Business and Democracy 
  • Organisational Change and Development

LLB Law with Business

Year 1

Compulsory

Year 2

Compulsory

Year 3

Taught in French in Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

  • Droit administratif 1
  • Droit administratif 2
  • Droit civil 1
  • Droit civil 2
  • Droit constitutionnel 1
  • Droit constitutionnel 2
  • Droit de la famille
  • Droit des libertés fondamentales
  • Droit des sociétés 1
  • Droit des sociétés 2
  • Droit international public
  • Droit pénal général

Year 4

Taught in French in Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

  • Contrats spéciaux
  • Droit général de l’obligation
  • Droit international prive 1
  • Droit international prive 2
  • Jurisprudence and Legal theory (taught in English by Queen Mary academic staff)
  • Eight optional modules

Double LLB English and French Law

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