Law

Law as a graduate entry route is designed for those who have already completed a degree in another discipline and now wish to transition into a legal career. The two-year accelerated LLB at Leeds is explicitly built for graduates from non-law backgrounds, allowing you to develop the core legal knowledge and analytical skills needed to enter the profession in a condensed timeframe. This model has become increasingly common and suits those who discovered law later, or who wish to bring the analytical and contextual knowledge of another discipline into their legal training.

At the University of Leeds, this two-year full-time programme covers how and why law is created and changed, and how it operates as a social institution embedded in wider political, economic, and cultural life. You will develop understanding in core legal subjects and choose optional modules in areas such as company law, healthcare law, cyber law, environmental law, media law, family law, and criminal justice and criminology, allowing you to tailor your legal education towards the professional areas that interest you most. Leeds Law School is research-active and its teaching reflects current legal debates and scholarly advances.

You will develop skills in legal reasoning, statutory and case law interpretation, legal writing, research, and argumentation. The ability to analyse complex legal problems, identify relevant law, and apply it to specific facts is the core intellectual skill the programme develops. Your previous degree adds an additional dimension, giving you contextual knowledge and transferable skills that many law graduates lack.

Graduates from this programme proceed to the Solicitors Qualifying Examination or the Bar Course to qualify as solicitors or barristers. Others move into legal roles in businesses and public sector organisations that do not require full qualification. Postgraduate study in specialist areas of law is also an option for those seeking academic or specialist careers.