Law
Goldsmiths, University of London
UCAS Code: M100 | Bachelor of Law (with Honours) - LLB (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
60 credits overall with 33 distinctions and distinctions/merits in related subject
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
T Level
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About this course
**This is a qualifying law degree - your first step towards becoming a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales. You’ll gain all the skills you need to progress to the next stages.**
**Why study LLB Law at Goldsmiths**
- We’re one of the highest-rated courses in the country. Our students rated our Law department as number 1 in the UK for its intellectually stimulating curriculum and programme management. We’re also the best Law department in London for our quality of teaching (National Student Survey 2022)
- We have a rich heritage of social awareness and engagement. You'll be part of an environment that champions human rights, social justice and the international rule of law.
- You’ll not only get a qualifying law degree, but the course has also been developed in anticipation of the new Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE). Training for these is integrated throughout the degree, with the option to take an SQE module in your final year.
- As a Goldsmiths student, you will also benefit from discounted access to SQE Prep with leading external provider BARBRI.
- Future lawyers need a diverse range of skills. As well as grounding you in the fundamentals, you’ll also learn about subjects from big data to social media.
- This degree is active, so you won't just be sitting and reading. You'll learn problem-solving, debating and advocating through a range of activities.
- We're ahead of the curve, offering subjects like AI and disruptive technologies.
- You'll benefit from our excellence in the fields of creative arts, humanities and social sciences, with optional modules in subjects like art, media, human rights and technology.
- You'll visit the Supreme Court, Old Bailey, and leading commercial law sets. You’ll also attend Parliamentary committees and debates as well as relevant theatre productions, exhibitions and film screenings to enrich your studies.
- You’ll work closely with eminent legal thinkers, internationally leading barristers and politicians. Our Visiting Professors are some of the greatest legal minds of our generation.
- You’ll benefit from a variety of guest speakers who are experts in their fields. From practising legal professionals to solicitors from ‘Magic Circle’ law firms, and members of the Crown Prosecution Service to representatives from NGOs and the technologies sector.
**Law and Policy Clinics**
In Goldsmiths’ Law and Policy Clinics, students confront challenging societal issues through supervised legal research and public engagement activity. Areas covered by the Clinics include immigration, the law of financial wrongdoing, police interrogation, and counter-terrorism law. We offer our students unique access to the University of London’s Refugee Law Clinic and social welfare placements in law centres and legal advice clinics across London.
**Harvard Law School course**
We’re the first Law department in the UK to offer free access to Harvard Law School’s pioneering Zero-L course. Taught by 18 leading Harvard Law faculty members, with hours of video lectures, vocabulary, and periodic comprehension checks to take at your own pace. Materials developed by Goldsmiths Law academics to support the delivery of Zero-L direct you to key areas of interest in the programme and give you support to understand how it strengthens your understanding of English law helping you to develop legal skills.
**Student life and student support**
You'll belong to a close-knit community, and are supported by a network which includes academic personal tutors, career advisers, disability officers and other student support staff. We work in small groups in lectures and research seminars, and immerse in legal London as a group on a regular basis. The legal, institutional and cultural experiences you will gain in the LLB will stay with you forever.
The LLB Law is a qualifying law degree accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board.
Modules
The LLB will give you the opportunity to focus on your interests in the second and third years by choosing from a range of law option modules. A unique feature of the degree is that you'll also be able to study across a wide range of specialisms, drawing on globally leading expertise in the departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Media and Communications, and Art.
Please note: Many of the option module lists below are indicative, and updated annually by the department.
Year 1 (credit level 4)
In your first year, you'll study the following compulsory modules:
21st Century Legal Skills
Contract Law
Criminal Law: Theory and Practice
Public Law and the Human Rights Act
English Legal System in a Global Context
Year 2 (credit level 5)
In your second year, you'll study the following compulsory modules:
EU Law and the UK
Law of Tort
Land Law
Trusts
International Law and Politics
You'll then select 1 or 2 optional modules.
You can then choose from the following selection of optional module list from the Department of Law, or you can select modules from relevant departments (known as Connected Curriculum) across the University. In your second year, you can also take advantage of our Intercollegiate module programme, and choose to study one module from a participating University of London Law School.
Department of Law optional modules
You can select up 1 or 2 optional modules from the list below. For the Goldsmiths' Social Change module, you have the option to focus on Immigration Policy Clinic and/or Counterterrorism and Human Rights Clinic.
Immigration Law
Intellectual Property Law
Goldsmiths’ Social Change Module
Connected Curriculum modules
You will also have the opportunity to select optional modules from departments such as Sociology to broaden your studies. Exact lists of these modules will be available at the beginning of each academic year.
You can select 1 or 2 modules from the Connected Curriculum modules, or Goldsmiths' Electives.
Or, alternatively you can take the below module:
Modern Political Theory
Year 3 (credit level 6)
In your third year, you'll take credits from the following modules:
Dissertation
AI, Disruptive Technologies and the Law
Human Rights Law and Clinic
Work Placement
Commercial Law and International Trade Agreements
Art Law
Company Law
SQE2: Practical Legal Skills in Context
Criminal Evidence (with Advanced Mooting and Advocacy)
And, depending on the number of credits you select from the Department of Law modules, you can take up to 2 from the below interdisciplinary modules:
Confronting climate crisis
Media Law and Ethics
Anthropology of Rights
Crimes of the Powerful
Psychology and Law
You can also choose to take advantage of our Intercollegiate module programme, and choose to study one module from a participating University of London Law School.
Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.
Assessment methods
You’ll be assessed by a variety of methods, depending on your module choices. These include coursework, examinations, reports, case notes, statutory interpretation, critiques of articles, and research projects such as the dissertation.
As well as these traditional assessment methods, you'll also have the option in your second and third years to take modules that are wholly assessed in more innovative ways, such as:
a portfolio of mooting contributions
client interviewing, persuasive argumentation, written advice and legal drafting
voluntary and prepared contributions in the classroom
taking part in a human rights clinic and other experiential learning activities
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